Sister Bliss, Lucy Easthope, Rachel Maclean on Domestic Abuse Plan, Ockenden Review
Do you have a soundtrack to your life that you return to again and again? Emma explores the power of music to affect our mood and well being with DJ and song writer and Sister Bliss and Professor Laur...
30 Mar 202258min
Ella Jarmulska, Dr Caitlin Dean, Nicola Cutcher, Professor Marian Knight, Rose Gallagher, Threads, Marion Lees McPherson
Emma Barnett speaks to Ella Jarmulska a Polish entrepreneur who wants to provide safer car rides to families fleeing the war in Ukraine. Displaced and disoriented, often with no idea where to go next,...
29 Mar 202258min
Ukrainian MPs, Women Surgeons, Remember Monday
We speak to 3 MPs who are members of the Women’s Diplomatic Battalion of Ukraine. They are Olena Khomenko, Mariia Mezentseva and Alona Shkrum. They're all about shuttle diplomacy, pressing their case ...
28 Mar 202256min
Body hair, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe speaks out, UK ambassador to Ukraine, Actor Ruth Wilson, Kinship care, Duvets
TV shows go to huge lengths with their sets, costumes and wigs to make you feel like you’re looking back at the past but why – given hair removal is a fairly modern development – is body hair so rarel...
26 Mar 202256min
Separate duvets, Asma Khan, South Asian women in Regency England
Ammu, a term used mostly in South Asian Muslim homes for mother, is the title of Asma Khan’s new book. Part memoir, part cookbook 'Ammu' is a celebration of the food she loves to make but also of the ...
25 Mar 202257min
Actor Ruth Wilson. Kinship Care. Rear Admiral Jude Terry. Body hair in history.
Best known for The Affair and Luther, and more recently playing her own grandmother in a BBC drama, actor Ruth Wilson joins Emma to talk about her two latest roles – on the London stage in The Human ...
24 Mar 202256min
Ash Barty retires from tennis, Growing up in poverty, Shame, Threads, Men and sexual entitlement
Ash Barty, the Australian three time grand slam champion is retiring from tennis. Her achievements are matched only by her fellow player, Serena Williams. Andy Murray tweeted "Happy for Ash, gutted fo...
23 Mar 202257min
Who was Ellen Wilkinson? Mary-Ellen McGroarty from the UN World Food Programme, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe speaks out.
Who was Ellen Wilkinson? Poet and playwright Caroline Bird aims to tell us all about her as her new work Red Ellen goes on tour.Yesterday Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe faced a room of journalists and came...
22 Mar 202256min
