Youngest Afghan mayor, Romanticising your life, surviving WWII Japanese prison camp, Big tech & sexuality
Today marks two years since the re-taking of Afghanistan by the Taliban. We speak to Afghanistan's youngest female mayor, Zarifa Ghafari, who was elected mayor of the conservative central city of Maid...
15 Aug 202357min
Women's football World Cup, 'Older-age orphans', Channel swimming with a stoma, Caroline Moran, Women's feet
The Lionesses are through to the Women's World Cup semi-final on Wednesday against co-hosts Australia. Reaching semi-finals of major tournaments is what England "are known for", says defender Lucy Bro...
14 Aug 202357min
Weekend Woman's Hour: Megan Thee Stallion, Students Living at Home, Sarah de Lagarde, Dr Nadia Nadim
The rapper Tory Lanez has been sentenced to 10 years for the shooting of fellow musician Megan Thee Stallion. She required surgery to remove bullet fragments from her foot after he shot her following ...
12 Aug 202356min
Andi and Miquita Oliver, Jacqueline Springer, Emma Rawicz, Afghanistan's most successful female footballer - Dr Nadia Nadim
Mother and daughter duo, Andi and Miquita Oliver, have started a new podcast, Stirring it Up, where they ask guests to join them at their kitchen table. They join Hayley Hassall to talk on how this fo...
11 Aug 202354min
Barbie in China, The Hundred: women's cricket, Women & student loans, Why university students are staying at home
New research by the Sutton Trust reveals that more than a third of A-level students in England are considering living at home if they get into their preferred university. And in some cases, chooing lo...
10 Aug 202357min
Megan Thee Stallion, Fertility Anxiety, Colombian striker Linda Caicedo
The rapper Tory Lanez has been sentenced to 10 years for the shooting of fellow musician Megan Thee Stallion. She required surgery to remove bullet fragments from her foot after he shot her following ...
9 Aug 202356min
The case against Bill Cosby, Live music from Chloe Matharu, The world of incels, Texas abortion law
A judge in Texas has ruled that women who experience pregnancy complications are temporarily exempt from the state's abortion bans. The ruling comes after a group of thirteen women and two doctors sue...
8 Aug 202354min
Sarah De Lagarde's bionic arm, Women's World Cup update, Kim Sherwood on writing Bond
A few months ago, Sarah de Lagarde came on Woman's Hour to share her incredible story of survival. She had fallen on to the Tube tracks at a north London station and was run over by two Tube trains. S...
7 Aug 202357min
