Listener Week: Tummies, Later in life lesbians, Long Covid
Listener Week is when all the topics, interviews and discussions are chosen by YOU!Why do so many of us feel bad about our tummies and why are the rounded or wobbly ones never celebrated? That’s what ...
20 Elo 202457min
Listener Week: Van life, Surrogacy, Women and stonemasonary
Welcome to Woman's Hour's Listener Week, when all the topics, interviews and discussions are chosen by YOU!On today's programme, we hear from listener Siobhan Daniels. She wrote to us on Instagram: 'I...
19 Elo 202457min
Weekend Woman's Hour: Olympian Emily Campbell, Sexsomnia and the CPS, Science fiction, Paralympian Jodie Grinham
Fresh from the Paris Olympic Games, the Team GB weightlifter Emily Campbell joins Jessica Creighton on the programme. Best known for her no-nonsense attitude, fabulous hair and of course, lifting extr...
17 Elo 202454min
Kyla Harris, Mania and perimenopause, Daughters documentary, Maternity clothes
A new study just published says that perimenopausal women are more likely to experience bipolar and major depressive disorder. Cardiff University academics worked with charity Bipolar UK and the UK Bi...
16 Elo 202457min
Olympic medallist Emily Campbell, Sexsomnia and the CPS, Beryl Cook play
Fresh from the Paris Olympic Games, the Team GB weightlifter Emily Campbell joins Jessica Creighton on the programme. Best known for her no-nonsense attitude, fabulous hair and of course, lifting extr...
15 Elo 202457min
Women and science fiction; Say She She
Throughout the summer we’ve been taking a look into the world of 'genre fiction' – the women who read it and the women who write it. In the latest of this series, we’re going to discuss science fictio...
14 Elo 202455min
Actor Romola Garai, AI research and breast cancer, Rebecca Watson
Annie Ernaux’s Booker-nominated book, Les Années, traces her journey from childhood in post-war France to old age in the post-9/11 era. Now adapted for the stage, Gina Mckee, Deborah Findlay and Romol...
13 Elo 202457min
Paralympian Jodie Grinham, The Wicker Man, Singer Mary Bridget Davies
For the first time in history, the Paris 2024 Olympics saw an equal number of men and women competing. But that's not always been the case - in fact, back in 1912, the father of the Olympic games Pier...
12 Elo 202455min
