Educating Rita at 40 with Julie Walters, Willy Russell and real life Ritas
This summer marks 40 years since Willy Russell’s landmark play Educating Rita was first performed. The funny and moving story of a 26 year-old Liverpudlian hairdresser studying for an Open University ...
31 Aug 202042min
Listener Week - Nits, Accents, Becoming a mother unexpectedly, Paddle sports, Losing your belongings, Choirs
Louise Somerville thinks we need to talk more about nits. She feels that increasingly schools are inconsistent in how much they help parents deal with nits and that clear advice is lacking. We ask how...
29 Aug 202055min
Choirs, Sexual Assault on University Campuses, Retirement, Losing Your Belongings
Presented by Jenni Murray.A 16 year-old young woman looking at universities came across the St Andrews Survivors page on Instagram with more than 100 stories of sexual assault. She only read a couple ...
28 Aug 202045min
LISTENER WEEK: Writing about your job. The evolution of the buggy. Community quilting.
LISTENER WEEK: Josie Channer and Teresa Devereux are both listeners who felt that they had to write novels about what they’d experienced through their work. Josie’s written Diary of a Prison Office...
27 Aug 202051min
Grave Tending, Sisterhood, Second Generation Young Women and mental health; Accents.
Marva Yates who lives in London got in touch because she wanted us to talk about the importance of sisterhood throughout history... Marva and her sister Sabrina – who currently lives in New York - sta...
26 Aug 202053min
Listener Week: Women & Walking, Bulimia, Becoming a Mother Unexpectedly
Would you consider walking 880 miles around the Wales Coastal Path? Two listeners, Helen and Rhian, tell us about their experiences, and they are joined by academic Kerri Andrews, author of Wanderers:...
26 Aug 202054min
Parenting Podcast: Nits
All you need to know about nits
25 Aug 202011min
Listener Week 2020 - paddlesport; the Pill; Nits; Dating over 45;
Women and Paddling: kayaking, canoeing, paddle boarding, rafting what are the attractions, what is involved, how can paddle sports help physical and mental health and where are women in these water sp...
24 Aug 202051min
