Sex and choking, Online Abuse and work, Plastic pollution
Research by internationally-renowned sex expert Dr Debby Herbenick from 2020 found that 21% of women had been choked during sex, with this being nearly twice as prevalent among adults under 40. Why ar...
30 Apr 202457min
Boys, Lyra McKee, Perinatal suicide, South African elections
Catherine Carr has two teenage sons and, through talking to them and to other parents of teenaged boys, she became aware that boys were experiencing confusing and often troubling messages about their ...
29 Apr 202457min
Weekend Woman’s Hour: Zeinab Badawi, Fisherman Ashley Mullenger, Stalking, Singing and periods
The deaths of 21-year-old Diane Jones and her two young children, in a house fire in October 1995 shocked the community of Merthyr Tydfil. The police originally thought it was an accident - but in the...
27 Apr 202456min
Weinstein conviction overturned, Fishing, Comeuppance, Ballet pumps
Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced Hollywood film producer, has had his 2020 rape conviction in New York overturned. The New York Court of Appeals has ruled that he did not receive a fair trial, because ...
26 Apr 202457min
BRCA1, Open relationships, Wrongly Accused: The Annette Hewins Story
The system of one word ratings for schools in England 'should stay' and has 'significant benefits' according to the government. It said the grades, such as 'Inadequate', 'requires improvement' 'good'...
25 Apr 202457min
Zeinab Badawi, Singing and periods, How is the debate over abortion shaping the US election?
The broadcaster Zeinab Badawi joins Krupa Padhy to discuss her first book, An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence. The book has taken her seven years to research, tra...
24 Apr 202456min
Kitty Ruskin's year of casual sex, The Girls of Slender Means, ARFID
Ten Men, A Year of Casual Sex is a new book from the author Kitty Ruskin. It follows a year of her life when she attempts to embody Samantha from Sex and the City and enjoy all the advantages of being...
23 Apr 202457min
Peres Jepchirchir, Rhianon Bragg and stalking, Nitazenes, Tortured poets
The Kenyan distance runner Peres Jepchirchir won yesterday’s elite women's London Marathon, breaking the women’s only record with her time of 2:16:16. She beat the previous record set in 2017 of 2:17:...
22 Apr 202457min
