Weekend Woman's Hour: Midwives, prenups, Egyptian warrior princesses
Last month, two reports into maternity services in England were published. Donna Ockenden’s review of maternity services at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and Baroness Valerie Amos’s invest...
2 Aug 28min
Autism & cervical screening, FIFA, The Kiss, The play Cleansed, Chess
There's been a lot of opposition to FIFA's plans to sell stakes in its competitions to private investors. UEFA, the governing body of football in Europe, have said they would boycott Fifa events if th...
31 Jul 57min
Rethinking pubs and clubs as community venues, Actor Vicky Krieps, Egyptian warrior princesses
Last week, the government announced a 20% cut in business rates for pubs, clubs and music venues from April. These spaces are increasingly used for coffee mornings, parent and toddler groups, book clu...
30 Jul 57min
Jared Leto accused, prenups, author Scarlett Thomas
A BBC investigation has uncovered allegations of sexual assault against the Hollywood star and musician Jared Leto. Four women who've spoken to the BBC were all teenagers at the time of the alleged of...
29 Jul 57min
Actor Helen Hunt, Midwives, Early release of prisoners
Academy Award-winning actor Helen Hunt is currently performing in the RSC’s production of The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov. She joins Nuala McGovern to discuss what it’s like being back on a UK sta...
28 Jul 58min
Women and prison, Abuse in swinging, Fiction and murdered women, Cyclist Lizzie Deignan
The new Reform police and crime commissioner for Norfolk, former detective Colin Sutton, has said that releasing women from prison ‘would be a kind of a radical, outside-the-box way of creating more p...
27 Jul 57min
Weekend Woman's Hour: Lena Headey, Women in Iran, Dr Emma Chapman, Hysteroscopy and pain relief, Para-athlete Melanie Woods
Actor, writer and director Lena Headey is best known for playing Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones. She has created and stars in Intimacy, a new BBC Sounds audio drama and podcast which follows inti...
25 Jul 56min
Didi Conn: Frenchy from Grease, Church of England abuse review
As an immersive version of Grease opens for the summer in London, Anita Rani welcomes Didi Conn, who played 'Beauty School Dropout' Frenchy in the original 1978 film.Can you imagine running an entire ...
24 Jul 56min
