Nelly Furtado, Toughest towns for girls, Julian Assange accuser
The Portuguese-Canadian singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado has sold more than 40 million records worldwide and won awards including a Grammy. Her upbeat, genre-defying pop music dominated the charts in t...
18 Jul 202455min
Woman's Hour live from Lord's Cricket Ground
Today, Woman's Hour comes live from Lord's Cricket Ground as England face New Zealand for the culmination of a five-match T20 International series. To talk us through the upcoming game we are joined ...
17 Jul 202456min
Jenna Russell & Hello, Dolly!, Historical fiction, Women in Myanmar, Air Pollution
One of the most iconic musicals of all time, Hello, Dolly!, has returned to the London Palladium, with Jerry Herman’s unforgettable score including Put On Your Sunday Clothes, Before the Parade Passes...
16 Jul 202457min
Wendy Joseph KC, Storm chasers, Remembering sex therapist Dr Ruth, Insta’s Fake Guru
Former Old Bailey judge, Her Honour Wendy Joseph KC, lifts the lid on our legal system. Having worked in criminal courts for almost half a century, she is still asking: what is justice? She tells Nual...
15 Jul 202457min
Harriet Harman, Southall Black Sisters, Author Cathy Rentzenbrink, Medium friends
A record-breaking number of women MPs have been elected following Labour's win at the general election. It's also the first time in parliamentary history that the proportion of women elected is more t...
13 Jul 202457min
Southall Black Sisters, Audrey Powne, Dr Michael Mosley's exercise snacking
Three women who were the victims of a racial attack have had the charges of assault made against them by their assailant discontinued by the CPS. Selma Taha, the executive director for advocacy group ...
12 Jul 202452min
The future of the two-child benefit cap, Women of Windrush opera, what is next for Kamala Harris?
The Department for Work and Pensions has just published statistics on the number of people affected by the so-called two-child benefit cap, which restricts child tax credit and universal credit to the...
11 Jul 202453min
Nusrit Mehtab, Author Cathy Rentzenbrink, Olympian Hannah Mills
Irish soldier Cathal Crotty was given a three-year suspended sentence after beating Natasha O'Brien unconscious in May 2022. Now, in the latest development, he is due to be formally discharged from th...
10 Jul 202457min
