R4 Rethink: how might we design our world better post Covid?
Today Radio 4 launches Rethink - a series of essays and discussions right across BBC Radio that ask how the world might change after the pandemic. We begin with an essay from Stirling Prize winning ar...
22 Kesä 202051min
Naomi Campbell, Equality at home, Susie Dent
Naomi Campbell the model, icon, and activist, who’s been at the summit of the fashion industry for over three decades tells us how she believes the fashion and beauty industry needs to play its part i...
20 Kesä 202055min
Author Rachel Edwards, Equality in the home, Explorer Vanessa O’Brien
Bernadine Evaristo’s bestseller Girl, Woman, Other is on plenty of reading lists after winning the 2019 Booker Prize, but what books are getting her through lockdown? One of them is Darling by Rachel...
19 Kesä 202043min
Naomi Campbell, US Elections, Women Farmers and a 1970's recipe book
Naomi Campbell is an actress, an innovator, an icon, an activist, and a philanthropist who’s been at the summit of the fashion industry for over three decades. When Pat McGrath signed her up to be th...
18 Kesä 202043min
Self employed the mothers missing out.. Science journalist Debora Mackenzie
Self-employed women are receiving less government support during coronavirus if they’ve taken maternity leave between April 2016 and March 2019 – because maternity pay isn’t taken into account when ca...
17 Kesä 202045min
Gender Recognition Act; Susie Dent; Artificial Intelligence for online shopping
Some reports suggest the government won’t now go ahead with the reform of the Gender Recognition Act. If true, this means that people won’t be able to self-declare their gender. What will this mean fo...
16 Kesä 202053min
Candice Carty-Williams, Summer school plans, Campaign against DV in Iran
As two black British women writers – Bernadine Evaristo and Reni Eddo-Lodge - top the UK fiction and non-fiction book charts for the first time, Jane asks bestselling author of Queenie, Candice Carty-...
15 Kesä 202048min
Rosamund Pike, Covid-19 and women's finances, Florence Given, Fertility clinics
The scientist Marie Skłodowska Curie is recognised throughout the world but how much do you really know about her and her ground breaking Nobel prize winning discoveries? The Oscar nominated star of G...
13 Kesä 202053min
