Comedy Women in Print Prize 2020; Contraception and young women; Mandy Cassidy
The Comedy Women in Print Prize is the only literary prize in the UK and Ireland to spotlight funny writing by women. Now in its second year, it was launched by comedian and actress Helen Lederer in r...
15 Sep 202046min
Black Women and Human Rights, Film Diversity, Tracey Crouch MP
According to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, three quarters of black women do not feel the NHS protects them equally. That's the findings of a poll it commissioned on being Black i...
14 Sep 202045min
Laura Bates on extreme misogyny online, Stephanie Yeboah on body positivity, the end of the office romance, women and debt.
Laura Bates is founder of the Everyday Sexism Project. In her latest book, she traces the roots of extreme misogyny across a complex network of online groups from Pick Up Artists to Incels. Laura exp...
12 Sep 202056min
How to be on Time, Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Maternity and Paternal leave, Daughters of Objects, Shere Hite
Are you always just a bit late to everything – even when there isn’t an actual reason? Is your time-keeping a source of stress for you and others? Help is at hand. In the latest of our How To series, ...
11 Sep 202050min
Laura Bates on extreme misogyny groups online. Getting into debt. Young women and rheumatoid arthritis
Laura Bates is founder of the Everyday Sexism Project. In her latest book – Men Who Hate Women - she traces the roots of extreme misogyny across a complex network of online groups - extending from Me...
10 Sep 202047min
Olive Thomas, The End of the Office Romance, Senior Women in the NHS, Parents Guide to Keeping Kids Suicide Safe
From flapper to femme fatale: Olive Thomas was the wild-living sex symbol of the jazz age and one of Hollywood's first starlets - but ended up dying in agony from poison in Paris Ritz 100 years ago. S...
9 Sep 202046min
Lissie Harper’s campaign, body positivity in the age of Covid, Toddler tantrums and the other Tchaikovsky.
PC Andrew Harper’s widow Lissie says she has cabinet support for a new law – under which anyone who kills an emergency services worker would be jailed for life. PC Andrew Harper was killed last summer...
8 Sep 202047min
Botox, Covid-19 and pregnancy, Tidying and decluttering, Debora Harding
What do we know so far about COVID – clinically and scientifically – in women, including those who are pregnant. Jane talks to Professor Louise Kenny a clinical academic from Liverpool Women’s Hospi...
8 Sep 202048min
