Liz Kendall MP, Women & Tourette Syndrome, Andrew Graham-Dixon, Singing to help postnatal depression
Only about 20% of UK tech workers are women. That's from a study by WeAreTechWomen & management consultants Oliver Wyman, which also found between 40,000 and 60,000 women leave the UK’s tech sector ev...
15 Okt 202554min
Bobbi Brown, Domestic abuse & family courts, Black maternal health film
Bobbi Brown is a make-up artist turned entrepreneur who created her now famous eponymous line in 1990. Her fresh-faced approach went against 80s and 90s trends at the time for bright colour and contou...
14 Okt 202554min
Dads and working flexibly, Baroness Margaret Thatcher centenary, Diane Keaton legacy
Half of working dads feel nervous asking for time off to care for their children, more than 20% have been asked ‘where’s your wife/partner?’ when requesting flexibility and 44% say employers treat mot...
13 Okt 202554min
Weekend Woman's Hour: Sally Wainwright, Kellie Bright, AI girlfriends, lessons from the Pelicot trial
100m sprinter Bebe Jackson, 19, won a bronze medal on her debut at the IPC World Para Athletics Championships in Delhi, India, last week. Bebe was born with congenital talipes equinovarus, widely know...
11 Okt 202556min
Pelicot trial, Lucy Guo, Bebe Jackson, Travel writing
A court in southern France has increased the jail term of the only man who challenged his conviction for raping Gisèle Pelicot. Gisèle was drugged by her then-husband Dominique for over a decade and r...
10 Okt 202554min
Tanita Tikaram, Sally Wainwright, Nature and kids with SEND
NB: The music in this broadcast has been removed from this podcast for rights reasons.In Sally Wainwright’s new BBC drama Riot Women, a group of women in mid-life escape the pressures of caring for pa...
9 Okt 202550min
Kemi Badenoch's leadership, Manon Garcia on Gisele Pelicot, Joy Gregory
As Kemi Badenoch prepares to address Conservative Party conference for the second time this week, Nuala McGovern reflects on her first year as leader of the party and Leader of the Opposition, with BB...
8 Okt 202554min
AI 'girlfriends', Japan's PM designate, Hope Reese, Musica Secreta
Elon Musk's Artificial Intelligence company xAI recently introduced two sexually explicit chatbots. He's a high-profile presence in a growing field where developers are banking on users interacting an...
7 Okt 202554min
