Women in Iran, Chloé Zhao, the Bar Council, Lesley Sharp
Iran has been in the news, with protests building over the last 13 days. Commentators say that what started as a protest about the economy has now turned into a call for regime change, and for women'...
9 Jan 57min
Breast screening, MET police vetting, Female punk bands
A chemotherapy nurse is so concerned about the rates of breast cancer she has seen in women under 50 that she's started a parliamentary petition to get the age of mammograms reduced to 40 and for them...
8 Jan 56min
Grok AI, Girls' sporting aspirations, Going it Alone, Child Custody
The Technology Secretary Liz Kendall has demanded urgent action from Elon Musk’s platform X, after it was found that its AI chatbot Grok is being used to create non consensual sexualised images of wom...
7 Jan 57min
Brigitte Macron, Miriam Stoppard, Going It Alone
Ten people have been found guilty of cyber-bullying Brigitte Macron, the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, by a Paris court, but that is not the end of the lawsuits. Next up, it's the Macrons ...
6 Jan 57min
Going It Alone, Venezuela, Military children
In our new series Going it Alone we are hearing from three women about their experiences of having a child without a partner. These are women who are having donor conceived children, which is differen...
5 Jan 57min
Weekend Woman's Hour: Toni Collette, Adults regressing, The Archers special
Since her big break in Muriel’s Wedding 30 years ago, actor Toni Collette has graced our screens in a huge list of standout roles from The Sixth Sense to Hereditary, Little Miss Sunshine to Mickey 17....
3 Jan 56min
Living at home during university, Child violence in the DRC, What is RED-S?
A new report out from UNICEF has revealed some devastating figures on the prevalence of sexual violence against children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Nationwide data indicates that more t...
2 Jan 57min
Woman's Hour celebrates the women of The Archers
It's 75 years to the day since The Archers first launched. Woman's Hour has come to Ambridge to celebrate the female characters who have helped this programme tackle some of the most challenging, cont...
1 Jan 56min
