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
Review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council, Black market weight loss drugs, Composer Undine Smith Moore
Former Chief Prosecutor Nazir Afzal speaks to Nuala McGovern about his independent culture review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council, which is the independent regulator for nurses and midwifes in th...
9 Jul 202455min
Harriet Harman and election reaction, Sports Day, France Me Too
There are a record number of women MPs in the new parliament. Nuala McGovern is joined by former Mother of the House and now chair of the charity the Fawcett Society, Harriet Harman, who wants to set ...
8 Jul 202457min
Weekend Woman's Hour: Jonathan Meijer interviewed on fathering over 550 babies by sperm donation, Gabby Logan, Lisa Jewell
A new series was released this week on Netflix. It is called Man with 1,000 Kids, and Netflix is billing it as the true story of Jonathan Meijer, a man accused of travelling the world, deceiving women...
6 Jul 202443min
Lisa Jewell, Baby Babble, Bluebella rugby ad, Genre Fiction - Romance/Romantasy
It’s 25 year since the New York Times’ best-selling author Lisa Jewell published her first novel, Ralph’s Party. Since then she’s written another twenty-one novels, and more recently a number of dark ...
4 Jul 202457min
