Weekend Woman’s Hour: Ukraine Kakhovka Dam, Candi Staton & Christina Rossetti the Carer
Facebook has removed an advert for a sanitary towel product because it referenced the words Vagina, Vulva and Clitoris. It's the latest in a long line of period ads that have caused a stir. So what is...
10 Jun 202354min
Sue Barker, Period advert bans, Selling sexual assault in East Asia, Jenny Jungle
This Wimbledon will be the first in 30 years without the familiar presence of Sue Barker. Last year she stepped down from hosting the tennis tournament that she herself played in. In Sue's memoir, Cal...
9 Jun 202357min
Louise Redknapp, Insomnia, Lindsey Burrow, Ukraine dam
The rescue efforts are continuing in Ukraine after Tuesday's breach of the Kakhovka dam. 30 communities along the Dnipro river have been flooded according to officials. Now the Red Cross has raised co...
8 Jun 202355min
Polly Toynbee on her new book An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals
As a self confessed “silver spooner” who enjoyed a privileged upbringing Polly Toynbee talks to Nuala McGovern about her committed left wing "rabble rouser" ancestors and her own life long battle w...
7 Jun 202357min
Candi Staton, Narcissistic mother 'Bethany', Author Emma Cline, Smart phones in school, Nurses
Four-time Grammy award nominated singer Candi Staton has moved between several musical genres during of the course of her celebrated career – from soul, R&B, gospel and disco. However, dance music ha...
6 Jun 202354min
Women in Ukraine, Baroness Sue Campbell, Abortion law in Texas, Drastic hair
The Sunday Times' Christina Lamb on the women involved in the war effort in Ukraine.We look at the trend of brides having their long hair cut into bobs before re-emerging with new hair at their weddin...
5 Jun 202357min
Weekend Woman's Hour: Witness Protection, Gender Pension Gap, Big Boobs and Dr Edna Adan Ismali
A woman who was stalked by her husband and then placed into witness protection with a new identity to escape him, says she feels like she's the one being punished. She's complained to the police about...
3 Jun 202356min
Edna Adan Ismail, winner of Templeton Prize, Online games, Vasectomy increase in US, Iranian female journos on trial
Two female journalists in Iran are on trial for covering the death of 22 year old Mahsa Amini, the Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in custody last year sparking protests across the country and months o...
2 Jun 202358min
