Jayde Adams, Liz Truss' future, Phobias
Comedian Jayde Adams and her Strictly Come Dancing partner Karen Hauer speak to Woman’s Hour about their performance on Saturday’s show which was dedicated to Jayde’s late sister Jenna Adams. They’ll ...
20 Okt 202258min
Sterilisation in the United States, Carmen Callil, Kate Beaton, #StayAtHomeGFs, Helen Gittos & East Kent Maternity Report
An independent review launched after up to 15 babies died at a hospital trust will be published later this morning. The report into maternity services at East Kent Hospitals, which is expected to be "...
19 Okt 202258min
Actor Geena Davis. Sibling age gaps. Modern slavery and working rights.
In her memoir "Dying of Politeness" the Oscar winning actor Geena_Davis talks about her roles from a housewife-turned-road warrior and an amnesiac assassin to the mother of a rodent, and the president...
18 Okt 202258min
Choreographer Jasmin Vardimon, Behind the Rage with Deeyah Khan, Met Police report, Motorcycling
Jasmin Vardimon is one of the UK’s leading choreographers and was awarded an MBE for services to dance in the late Queen’s final birthday honours list in June. This month Jasmin is bringing ALiCE - a...
17 Okt 202258min
Nicole Hockley, Juliet Stevenson, Women protesting in Iran, Sue Townsend's legacy
Nicole Hockley lost her son Dylan when he was 6 years old, during the Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut in 2012. She talks about her son, her feelings of loss, her activism and her reaction to...
15 Okt 202243min
The Staves live, Nicole Hockley, Manisha Tailor, Women and body art
This week, in a defamation trial in the US, Alex Jones, founder of the Infowars website, was ordered to pay nearly one billion dollars in damage to eight families and an FBI agent. He had falsely clai...
14 Okt 202254min
Actor Juliet Stevenson. 40 years after Adrian Mole the legacy of Sue Townsend. Paralympian now dancer Ellie Simmonds
The Doctor’ first opened at the Almeida in 2019 Juliet Stevenson’s performance was described as ‘one of the peaks of the theatrical year’. Now on stage in London’s West End the play has again been hig...
13 Okt 202257min
Erin Doherty in The Crucible, Strip clubs, Brazilian butt lifts, Angela Lansbury
Based on the Salem trials in Massachusetts in 1692, where young girls accused their elders of satanism, a new production of Arthur Miller's modern classic The Crucible has just opened at the National ...
12 Okt 202257min
