British Vogue, Beijing Winter Olympics 2022 & Mummy Bloggers
The cover of British Vogue’s February 2022 issue has made history. It’s the first Vogue cover to feature nine black models, titled Fashion Now. The issue celebrates the rise of African models in high-...
4 Feb 202256min
Stacey Dooley, Police culture, Novice rowers become champions, Afghan women update, Anne Boleyn
Stacey Dooley has been presenting television documentaries for over 10 years – on everything from drug cartels in Southern Spain to illegal pornography in South Korea. Now the Sunday Times bestselling...
3 Feb 202257min
Gloria Allred, Monica Ali, Val McDermid
Gloria Allred is probably the best known women’s rights lawyer in the US. Equally loved, feared and deemed controversial by some, for nearly half a century she's represented women in high profile cas...
2 Feb 202256min
Carrie Johnson, Supreme Court nominee, Women & work in the 17th century, Rising popularity of thongs, MMR
As the Prime Minister apologises for a failure of leadership, accepting Sue Gray's report, and promises to overhaul Number 10 - his place of work and home - what of Carrie Johnson? And concerns about ...
1 Feb 202257min
Sarah Brown sings Mahalia Jackson, Performative activism, Over-exercising
Nikki da Costa is former director of legislative affairs at No 10. She has a piece in the Times this morning saying that 'No 10 failed us when we needed our leaders most'. Nikki joins Emma for an exc...
31 Jan 202254min
Weekend Woman's Hour: Dr Koshka Duff, Tareena Shakil, 'Corona Lisa', Midwife Shortage, Six The Musical
Dr Koshka Duff, an assistant professor of politics at Nottingham University has received an apology and compensation from the Met Police after officers were caught on CCTV using sexist, derogatory and...
29 Jan 202257min
Tareena Shakil, Nabihah Iqbal & Libby Heaney, Death Doulas
Tareena Shakil is the first British woman to be found guilty of joining so-called Islamic State. She was jailed for travelling to Syria with her baby son to join ISIS. That was in 2014 when she was 24...
28 Jan 202257min
Opera arias reinvented, Holocaust survivor Rachel Levy
We’re all too familiar with operatic heroines, dying tragically on stage. The arias they sing are often completely beautiful, the skill of the composers not in doubt, but the stereotyping does modern ...
27 Jan 202256min
