Cervical cancer testing, Imogen Poots, Syria and women, Janet Jackson play
New research which has just been published in the British Medical Journal, suggests that testing menstrual blood for signs of cervical cancer could be an accurate way of screening for the disease. Th...
5 Feb 57min
Foster care expansion, Romola Garai, Greenland’s Gender Equality Minister
The government has announced plans to relax fostering rules and create 10,000 new places for vulnerable children in England. Roxy and her mum Judy, from the BBC’s recent Traitors series, join Nuala Mc...
4 Feb 57min
Sarah Ferguson, Child free guilt, Actor Susan Wokoma, Understanding the courts
Sarah Ferguson's charity, Sarah's Trust, has announced it will close "for the foreseeable future" after new details emerged from documents released by the US Department of Justice about the former Duc...
3 Feb 57min
Undercover Police Inquiry, Anne Boleyn, The Puppini Sisters, Cyber voyeurism
The ongoing Undercover Policing Inquiry starts again today, having already uncovered "appalling practices in undercover policing" over the past 50 years in England and Wales, since the inquiry was fir...
2 Feb 57min
Paris Paloma, Repair Cafes, French conjugal rights, Gynae care in Wales
Last week a report from the Welsh Health and Social Care Committee revealed that women in Wales felt that they were being failed by gynaecological cancer services, with many facing long waiting lists ...
2 Feb 51min
Weekend Woman's Hour: Pensions gender gap, Winter Olympics, Paris Paloma
There's been a stark warning to MPs about the number of women pensioners living in poverty. The House of Commons Work and Pensions committee has been hearing the pension system is dysfunctional, and c...
31 Jan 24min
Pensions gender gap, Rape investigations complaint, Women and AI
There's been a stark warning to MPs about the number of women pensioners living in poverty. The house of commons work and pensions committee has been hearing the pension system is dysfunctional, and ...
29 Jan 57min
Pornhub restrictions, Home birth suspensions, Jessica Curry, Winter Olympics
Pornhub has announced it will restrict access to its website in the UK from next week, blaming the tougher age checks which have been introduced for explicit sites. Back in October, their parent compa...
28 Jan 56min
