Donna Ward on reclaiming spinsterhood; Comedian Liz Kingsman; Scars - Jayne; BBC 100 Objects
Australian author Donna Ward’s new book She I Dare Not Name: A Spinster's Meditations on Life explores the meaning and purpose she has fought to find in a life lived entirely accidentally without a pa...
29 Joulu 202157min
Women of Snow and Ice; Sheila Watt-Cloutier; Antarctic Women; Nancy Campbell and Cold Water Swimming
Sheila Watt-Cloutier, is a world renowned human rights and climate change activist, who has made it her life's work to protect her Inuit culture and the Arctic regions where Inuit live, in Greenland, ...
28 Joulu 202157min
A Woman's Hour Christmas mixtape
Emma Barnett looks back over her first year at Woman’s Hour, from holding those in power to account to hearing from women who found themselves in the most ordinary and extraordinary circumstances. Cl...
27 Joulu 202157min
Weekend Woman’s Hour: Claire Foy, Joan Collins & the musical collaboration of Carol Ann Duffy and Kathryn Williams
The award winning actor Claire Foy tells us about playing the Duchess of Argyll in the BBC One TV series A Very British Scandal on Boxing Day. Margaret Argyll was branded a nymphomaniac by her husband...
25 Joulu 202142min
The ladies of the Posh Club Dance Club. A Musical Family Christmas. Volunteering.
The ladies of the Posh Club Dance Club on what it means to them to be able to perform the dance of the flamingos, shimmy to dancehall music and feel like stars. Volunteering reached a record high duri...
24 Joulu 202154min
Joan Collins, Prof Sharon Peacock, Jacquie White & Mary Bousted, Kayley Inuksuk Mackay & Tiffany Kuliktana Ayalik, Usma Saeed
We talk to Dame Joan Collins about her new BBC documentary “This is Joan Collins” which is on air over Christmas. Not shy of voicing her opinions, she reflects on her life, relationships, and seven d...
23 Joulu 202157min
Susie Dent, Emma Fuller, Charlie Jeer, Stephen Wright, Under Pressure series with Hawra and Mustafa on stillbirth
Countdown Star and lexicographer Susie Dent on our favourite festive words, how chocolate, Marzipan, Chipolata, Tinsel and Glögg got their names and some of the festive greetings in different language...
22 Joulu 202157min
Carol Ann Duffy and Kathryn Williams, Care worker shortages, Peng Shuai, Divisive TV
Former poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and Mercury-nominated songwriter Kathryn Williams have released new album 'Midnight Chorus'. We ask them about their collaboration and how they avoided the clichés...
21 Joulu 202155min
