Weekend Woman’s Hour: Fiona Shaw, Gurinder Chadha, Women Footballers, Fashion Disrupter Amy Powney
Award-winning actor Fiona Shaw is best known for her roles in Killing Eve, Bad Sisters, Fleabag, True Detective: Night Country and even as Aunt Petunia in Harry Potter, among many other things. She’s ...
5 Jul 202556min
UEFA's VP Laura McAllister, playwright Beth Steel, film director Gurinder Chadha
Laura McAllister is the Vice-President of UEFA. During her own football career Laura was the captain of Wales' women's team, gaining 24 caps for her country. Wales have qualified for this year's Euros...
4 Jul 202555min
Crying, Fashion disruptor Amy Powney, NHS 10-Year Plan, Novelist Esther Freud
The image of the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, crying in Parliament yesterday was picked up by various media. After PMQs, Ms Reeves' spokesperson said she had been dealing with a "personal matter" and Si...
3 Jul 202557min
Rachel Brosnahan, Jenny Evans, Annie MacManus on football
Lots of boys have grown up wanting to be Superman but perhaps you grew up wanting to be award-winning journalist Lois Lane? Actor Rachel Brosnahan is known for her Emmy-winning portrayal of Midge Mais...
2 Jul 202557min
Fiona Shaw, Prositution Law, Director Rebecca Frecknall
Award-winning actor Fiona Shaw has starred in Killing Eve, Bad Sisters, Fleabag, True Detective: Night Country, Echo Valley and even as Aunt Petunia in Harry Potter, among many other things. She’s won...
1 Jul 202557min
Paternity Leave, Wimbledon, Sudan civil war, Women footballers
Introduced in 2003, statutory paternity leave, allows most new fathers and second parents in the UK to take up to two weeks off work. As a result, according to a new report from the Institute for Poli...
30 Jun 202557min
Weekend Woman’s Hour: SEND, Christiane Amanpour, Self Esteem, Return of the bullet bra
The Department for Education has just released the latest figures that show another rise in the number of Education, Health and Care Plans, or EHCPs, in England. These are the legal documents that out...
28 Jun 202536min
Live from Glastonbury with Self Esteem and Jamz Supernova
Woman's Hour is live from Worthy Farm. Anita is joined by BBC 6 Music's Jamz Supernova, who talks through the women she's most excited to see perform this year and discuss the meteroic rise of Doechii...
27 Jun 202553min
