Andra Day, Breast Cancer, Autistic Barbie
New research will bring hope to the thousands of women in the UK living with secondary breast cancer. A simple blood test will be able to tell how well they will respond to treatment, even before it s...
19 Tammi 57min
Weekend Woman's Hour: Kids and screen time, Nikki Lilly, The Traitors, Subpar relationships, Mia McKenna-Bruce
Parents of under-fives in England are to be offered official advice on how long their children should spend watching TV or looking at computer screens. It comes as government research shows about 98% ...
17 Tammi 53min
Nikki Lilly, Debt, Grief over a pet, Hayley Squires
The number of abortions recorded in England and Wales has reached a record high, according to the latest government figures from the Department of Health. There were 277,970 abortions in 2023, the hig...
16 Tammi 57min
Smart phones and tracking children, The Traitors, Regulating Botox
To track or not to track? Now that technology on our phones makes it so easy, many parents are tracking their children’s whereabouts. If children don’t have a smart phone, many people use a GPS trac...
15 Tammi 57min
Women protesting in Iran, Drugs and teens, Subpar relationships, Midwives and burnout
Reports say that the number of people killed in Iran after 18 days of protests is over 2000. We hear about the women on death row who are facing execution as there are fears of quick reprisals from th...
14 Tammi 57min
Mia McKenna-Bruce, Teens and misinformation, Older women and publishing
Miss Marple and Poirot have been household names for decades but now one of Agatha Christie’s lesser-known sleuths – Lady Eileen ‘Bundle’ Brent - is finally getting her time in the spotlight. The fear...
13 Tammi 57min
Young kids and screen time, Adoption Act centenary, The Ayoub Sisters
Parents of under-fives in England are to be offered official advice on how long their children should spend watching TV or looking at computer screens. It comes as government research shows about 98% ...
12 Tammi 53min
Weekend Woman's Hour: Going It Alone, Chloé Zhou, Breast screening
In our new series Going it Alone we hear from women about their experiences of having a child without a partner. These are women who are having donor conceived children, which is different to single m...
10 Tammi 56min
