BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2021; Ghislaine Maxwell court case; Adoption breakdown;Anorexia & relationships; Nicola Adams
Vivianne Miedema of the Netherlands and Arsenal has been crowned the winner of BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2021. The annual award from the BBC World Service is voted for by football fans from a...
29 Nov 202157min
Weekend Woman's Hour: Beverley Knight, Melanie Sykes, Cinderella
‘The Drifters Girl’ is a musical which tells the story of Faye Treadwell, one of the first Black women to manage a vocal group in the US. Singer and actor Beverley Knight plays Faye.We discuss the ong...
27 Nov 202156min
Arwa Mahdawi, Cinderella & Sexual Harassment in Schools
Do women make better leaders? If so, what can they teach us? Strong Female Lead - Lessons From Women in Power, a new book by the journalist Arwa Mahdawi, argues that a rigid and masculine model of lea...
26 Nov 202156min
Fabric a hidden history of material. Sweden's first female PM. Domestic violence and femicide in Turkey.
Do you ever pause to think about where the cotton t-shirt, woollen jumper or silk blouse you're wearing have come from? Victoria Finlay's new book Fabric weaves history, anthropology and myth to tell ...
25 Nov 202157min
Sheila Rowbotham; Sikh Women's Aid; Stella Creasy; HOGO; Motherhood & elite sport
Yesterday Sikh Women’s Aid launched a report into domestic abuse and child sexual abuse within the Sikh community. Conducted via anonymous surveys sent out over the summer, the survey of nearly 700 re...
24 Nov 202157min
MP Caroline Nokes, Beverley Knight, Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai
Last week, Caroline Nokes, former minister, Conservative MP and the chair of the Women and Equalities Committee - accused the Prime Minister's father of groping her 18 years ago at a Conservative Part...
23 Nov 202157min
Melanie Sykes, Menopause, Marching Midwives
TV and radio presenter Melanie Sykes has just announced that she’s been diagnosed with autism at the age of 51. She says it's 'truly life changing, or rather life affirming… and so many things make se...
22 Nov 202157min
Weekend Woman's Hour: Stonewall, Pride & Prejudice (Sort Of), Parcopresis
Nancy Kelley is CEO of Stonewall, the largest LGBT rights charity in Europe. She speaks about her organisation’s work and gives her reaction to recent high-profile withdrawals from Stonewall’s Diversi...
20 Nov 202156min
