Listener Week: Aftermath of domestic abuse, women's dialects, losing parents in your 30s, knickers
Listener Week on Woman's Hour is where we bring your stories, ideas and the issues you want to hear about to air.A father has written to us about his daughter's experience of domestic abuse. He says t...
7 Aug 57min
Listener Week: Functional Skills in Schools, How to Make a Podcast, Blushing, Being single
In two weeks’ time, thousands of young people will open their GCSE results — but what about those who don’t get the grade 4 they need in Maths and English? 41% of pupils in Maths and 29% in English w...
6 Aug 57min
Listener Week: Lipoedema, Third Culture Kids, Sprinting, and the noises men make
Listener Week on Woman's Hour is where we bring your stories, ideas and the issues you want to hear about to air.Why isn’t more known about Lipoedema? One listener wants to know why there are so few t...
5 Aug 57min
Listener Week: Elderly care, Women boat builders, Midlife Jobs, Influencer Viv the Carer
Listener Week on Woman's Hour is where we bring your stories, ideas and the issues you want to hear about to air.Sarah tells us about the burden and resentment she feels at caring for a parent who is ...
4 Aug 58min
Listener Week: Marriage & friends, Library cuts, NICU babies, Intergenerational friendships
Listener Week on Woman's Hour is where we bring your stories, ideas and the issues you want to hear about to air.How much of the detail about your marriage or long-term relationship do you share with ...
3 Aug 56min
Weekend Woman's Hour: Midwives, prenups, Egyptian warrior princesses
Last month, two reports into maternity services in England were published. Donna Ockenden’s review of maternity services at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and Baroness Valerie Amos’s invest...
2 Aug 28min
Autism & cervical screening, FIFA, The Kiss, The play Cleansed, Chess
There's been a lot of opposition to FIFA's plans to sell stakes in its competitions to private investors. UEFA, the governing body of football in Europe, have said they would boycott Fifa events if th...
31 Jul 57min
Rethinking pubs and clubs as community venues, Actor Vicky Krieps, Egyptian warrior princesses
Last week, the government announced a 20% cut in business rates for pubs, clubs and music venues from April. These spaces are increasingly used for coffee mornings, parent and toddler groups, book clu...
30 Jul 57min
