Midwife shortages, Dating at 81, Jackie Mag anniversary
The number of midwives in England has increased by just 7% over the last year and some NHS Trusts in England have more than one in five midwifery jobs vacant, according to BBC research. The Royal Coll...
9 Jan 202457min
Cush Jumbo, Church leader survivors, Exonerated sub-postmistress
Cush Jumbo is the award-winning actor known for her roles on the stage and screen, from The Good Fight to Macbeth. She joins Clare McDonnell to discuss starring in - and executive producing – the new ...
8 Jan 202457min
Weekend Woman's Hour - Women in the metaverse, Author Vanessa Chan, Women and negotiation
Police are investigating what is possibly the first crime of its kind: a British schoolgirl playing a game in the metaverse was allegedly sexually assaulted by a group of online strangers. Given that ...
6 Jan 202453min
Women and music in 2023, Nicole Jacobs, Women in farming
Female artists dominated the 2023 music scene. New figures from the British Phonographic Institute reveal that Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Raye, Dua Lipa, Ellie Goulding ...
5 Jan 202455min
Dame Joan Ruddock, Katherine Parkinson, Negotiating care with siblings, Author Vanessa Chan
Katherine Parkinson has graced our TV screens for almost two decades, from Doc Martin and The IT Crowd to Humans and Here We Go. Now she has a comedy drama airing on ITV called Significant Other, in ...
4 Jan 202457min
Shakespeare's Women, Izzy Judd, Women in the metaverse
A new play - Shakespeare’s Women - transports ten of Shakespeare’s female characters from the 16th century to 2024, placing them in the same domestic abuse support group. Written by Lorien Haynes, thi...
3 Jan 202453min
Lavinia Greenlaw, Lindsay Duncan, the Irish mother and baby homes scandal
The names of Jeffrey Epstein's associates are likely to be published today, after a judge in the US ordered the release of court documents. Epstein took his own life after he was accussed of sexually ...
2 Jan 202455min
Women and Negotiations
A special Woman's Hour episode all about women and negotiation. Nicky Perfect is the former Deputy Head of the elite New Scotland Yard Hostage and Crisis Negotiation Unit. She has travelled the world ...
1 Jan 202456min
