Imtiaz Dharker, Catherine Nicholson and Agnes Poirier, Clare Murphy, Dr Alison Smith
The award-winning poet Imtiaz Dharker has specially selected her favourite "Love Poems" together in a beautiful collection for the Folio Society. There are recent and ancient poems, poems that talk a...
14 Helmi 202256min
Weekend Woman's Hour: Marian Keyes, Donna McLean, Mansion Hunters
Marian Keyes writes funny, clever novels about the tough stuff in life. Her new novel Again, Rachel revisits Rachel Walsh whose story of recovery from addiction was told in the 1997 novel Rachel's Hol...
12 Helmi 202255min
Cressida Dick, Tukwini Mandela, Sheila Ferguson
Dame Cressida Dick, the first woman to lead the Metropolitan Police has resigned. We've covered every twist and turn of the many high profile crimes against women and girls involving the Met Police ov...
11 Helmi 202256min
Licoricia, Kate Nash, Devolution and Samantha Jones
Today the Prince of Wales will unveil a statue of Licoricia, a Medieval Jewish woman outside where she once lived on Jewry Street, Winchester. The statue is hoped to inspire women and provide educatio...
10 Helmi 202255min
Marian Keyes, Women making crypto art, Self-harm in women's prisons
Marian Keyes writes funny, clever novels about the tough stuff in life. Her books feature addiction, break-ups, poor mental health with women at the heart and lots of good men as well. Her new novel ...
9 Helmi 202257min
Group screaming, Kim Leadbeater, Breast cancer treatment, Separated fostered siblings, Lazy Susan
Downing Street has said the Prime Minister will not be apologising for claiming that the Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer, while Director of Public Prosecutions failed to prosecute Jimmy Saville for sex...
8 Helmi 202256min
Knitted Sandringham, Donna McLean, Language of reproduction
The celebrations to mark her Majesty's Platinum Jubilee have officially begun. with events up and down the country over the coming months. One woman who's preparing her own very special tribute to the...
7 Helmi 202257min
World record Atlantic rowers, Police culture, Women and investing
Two women with no previous rowing experience have smashed the world record for the fastest female pair to row across the Atlantic. We hear from Jessica Oliver and Charlotte Harris who rowed 3000 miles...
5 Helmi 202229min
