Saffron Hocking, French presidential elections, Midwives, Afghan girls and SMS education, Author Jendella Benson
The new season of Top Boy currently on Netflix, shines a light on the reality of life for those involved in London drug gangs and the people who live around them. This season covers social issues such...
8 Apr 202257min
Grace Lavery, Maternity Services Nottinghamshire, Life After Divorce
Grace Lavery is an Associate Professor of English, Critical Theory, and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Originally from the West Midlands, Grace moved to the Stat...
7 Apr 202257min
Woman's Hour Phone-In: No-Fault Divorce
The biggest reform of divorce law for 50 years comes into force today. As ‘no-fault divorce' comes into practice Woman's Hour are opening our phone lines to listen to what YOU have to say on the chang...
6 Apr 202258min
Rape in war, Single-sex spaces, No-fault divorce
Reports are coming through that Russian soldiers have raped women in Ukraine. There are reports that women have been raped in front of their children, and soldiers have filmed what they're doing. We h...
5 Apr 202256min
Ellie Simmonds: British Paralympian swimmer, Gynaecology waiting lists, Threads, Ukranian Dancers, Meriel Beale,
The Paralympic five time gold medallist Ellie Simmonds was born with achondroplasia, the most common type of dwarfism. A new drug currently being trialled in the NHS and now approved for use in the US...
4 Apr 202257min
Sister Bliss, DC Comics character, Nubia, the Ockenden Review, Lucy Easthope, Ukrainian MPs, Listener Dorothy
Do you have a soundtrack to your life that you return to again and again? Or have music that powers you through? DJ Sister Bliss and Goldsmiths Professor Lauren Stewart, who studies the psychology and...
2 Apr 202256min
Nubya, Justyna Wydrzynska, Ramadan and Parasocial relationships
Have you heard of Nubia from the DC comic books? She’s the adopted sister of Wonder Woman and is DC’s first Black superwoman introduced in the 70s before disappearing from comics for decades. Nubia re...
1 Apr 202256min
Donna Ockenden and The Ockenden Review
Today we are dedicating the whole programme to the biggest maternity scandal in the NHS's history - leading to headlines across newspapers today stating childbirth is not safe for women in England. Th...
31 Mar 202258min
