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
Educating Rita at 40, Muslim women on love and desire & Teen mum to midwife
Forty years since Willy Russell’s play Educating Rita was first performed we hear from some real life Rita’s, Willy Russell and Julie Walters on the films influenceSam Baker, the former editor of Cosm...
5 Sep 202056min
Hilary Swank; Miscarriage in lockdown; Muslim women write about love and desire
Hilary Swank, the two time Oscar-winning actress of Boys Don’t Cry and Million Dollar Baby, stars in new Netflix drama Away. She plays Commander Emma Green who leaves behind her husband and daughter t...
4 Sep 202046min
How to be assertive; Rural domestic abuse; Author Helen FitzGerald
In the latest of our How to guides, we discuss the art of being assertive and explore why it can be so difficult for women to stand up for themselves, assert their own needs and make themselves heard....
3 Sep 202047min
The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Cressida Dick
The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Cressida Dick, talks to Jenni about working with women in the community to help combat violent crime. She wants both the victims of things like domesti...
2 Sep 202044min
Annette Bening, Covid realities project, Ann Cleeves, Corroboration in rape trials
Annette Bening stars in a new film 'Hope Gap' about the collapse of a marriage after 29 years. She joins Jane to discuss the disintegration of that union.The Covid realities project from York and Birm...
1 Sep 202050min
