Mina Smallman, Workplace Fertility Officers, Covid Jabs for kids, Suffragist Lydia Becker
Mina Smallman, the mother of the murdered sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman is one of the key women who called for Dame Cressida Dick to resign from her position as Metropolitan Commissioner. As...
19 Feb 202257min
Reimagining ‘Jekyll and Hyde’. Author Charmaine Wilkerson. Forensic Scientist Professor Angela Gallop
The National Theatre is embarking on a seven week tour of secondary schools. Their radical reimagining of ‘Jekyll & Hyde’ with two female leads will be watched by more than 10,500 students from across...
18 Feb 202256min
Women protest in India over hijab bans, Comedian, Isabelle Farah, Parents attacked by their children,
Schools in the Indian state of Karnataka reopened yesterday after protests broke out in response to the state government trying to ban women wearing the hijab in classrooms. The issue gained widesprea...
17 Feb 202257min
Virginia Giuffre, Child Protection, Lydia Becker
An out-of-court settlement has been reached between Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre. She'd accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was 17. He's always denied it and hasn't admitted any liab...
16 Feb 202256min
Mina Smallman
Mina Smallman whose daughters were killed in a London park gives her reaction to the latest revelations from the Metropolitan police. Vladimir Putin could launch an invasion of Ukraine "almost imme...
15 Feb 202257min
Imtiaz Dharker, Catherine Nicholson and Agnes Poirier, Clare Murphy, Dr Alison Smith
The award-winning poet Imtiaz Dharker has specially selected her favourite "Love Poems" together in a beautiful collection for the Folio Society. There are recent and ancient poems, poems that talk a...
14 Feb 202256min
Weekend Woman's Hour: Marian Keyes, Donna McLean, Mansion Hunters
Marian Keyes writes funny, clever novels about the tough stuff in life. Her new novel Again, Rachel revisits Rachel Walsh whose story of recovery from addiction was told in the 1997 novel Rachel's Hol...
12 Feb 202255min
Cressida Dick, Tukwini Mandela, Sheila Ferguson
Dame Cressida Dick, the first woman to lead the Metropolitan Police has resigned. We've covered every twist and turn of the many high profile crimes against women and girls involving the Met Police ov...
11 Feb 202256min
