Julianne Moore, Dame Mary Berry, Prevalence of forced sterilisation
Academy Award-winning actor Julianne Moore plays Gracie Atherton-Yoo in Todd Haynes’ newest film, May December. The film tells the story of a married couple who were at the centre of a notorious tablo...
6 Joulu 202357min
Women's Football, Head of Ofcom, The politics of Christmas presents
There are big changes afoot for women’s football. Former England Lioness Karen Carney published a review into the women’s domestic game over the summer and the Government has just announced that it wi...
5 Joulu 202357min
Stella Creasy MP, Living with one breast, City Girl in Nature
A man has been convicted in court of harassing the Labour MP Stella Creasy. This harassment included reporting her to social services as an 'unfit mother'. A safeguarding review quickly cleared Stella...
4 Joulu 202357min
Weekend Woman's Hour: Emily Blunt, Stammering, Long-distance friendships, Maria Callas' legacy
Research by the charity Stamma shows that 8% of children will start stuttering at some point. Our listener Geri, a mother who’s son has a stammer, got in touch with Woman’s Hour and asked us to discus...
2 Joulu 202354min
Director Adura Onashile, Grieving and Christmas Shopping, Maria Callas's Centenary
In Adura Onashile’s debut film, Girl, mother Grace and daughter Ama have recently arrived in Glasgow and have created a beautiful cocoon for themselves in a council block apartment. But Grace carries...
1 Joulu 202355min
Emily Blunt, Pathologist-novelist, Baby formula, Short marriages
Actor Emily Blunt found fame as the scene-stealing assistant in The Devil Wears Prada, and has since starred in many films including Mary Poppins Returns and A Quiet Place with her real-life husband J...
30 Marras 202356min
British Gymnastics and safeguarding, Long-distance friendships, Myha’la, Hunters, Hockey kits
Last year's landmark Whyte Review into gymnastics detailed 'systemic issues' of physical and emotional abuse between 2008 and 2020. Today, British Gymnastics has for the first time introduced safeguar...
29 Marras 202357min
Parenting a child with a stammer, EHRC Chair Baroness Falkner, Ukrainian chess player Kamila Hryshchenko
Research by the charity Stamma shows that 8% of children will start stuttering at some point. Our listener Geri, a mother who’s son has a stammer, got in touch with Woman’s Hour and asked us to discus...
28 Marras 202357min
