Sarah Brown sings Mahalia Jackson, Performative activism, Over-exercising
Nikki da Costa is former director of legislative affairs at No 10. She has a piece in the Times this morning saying that 'No 10 failed us when we needed our leaders most'. Nikki joins Emma for an exc...
31 Jan 202254min
Weekend Woman's Hour: Dr Koshka Duff, Tareena Shakil, 'Corona Lisa', Midwife Shortage, Six The Musical
Dr Koshka Duff, an assistant professor of politics at Nottingham University has received an apology and compensation from the Met Police after officers were caught on CCTV using sexist, derogatory and...
29 Jan 202257min
Tareena Shakil, Nabihah Iqbal & Libby Heaney, Death Doulas
Tareena Shakil is the first British woman to be found guilty of joining so-called Islamic State. She was jailed for travelling to Syria with her baby son to join ISIS. That was in 2014 when she was 24...
28 Jan 202257min
Opera arias reinvented, Holocaust survivor Rachel Levy
We’re all too familiar with operatic heroines, dying tragically on stage. The arias they sing are often completely beautiful, the skill of the composers not in doubt, but the stereotyping does modern ...
27 Jan 202256min
The Corona Lisa, Dr Koshka Duff, Magistrates and Revolutionary women
Chloe Slevin, a 3rd year nursing student at University College Dublin has been painting well-known masterpieces - with a Covid-19 twist. First came 'The Girl with the Surgical Mask' after the famous '...
26 Jan 202257min
Six the Musical, Author Hannah Jewell on 'snowflakes', Women in Ukraine
Six the Musical is currently on stage at the Vaudeville Theatre in London. The show follows Henry VIII’s six wives, as they take the microphone for the first time in a ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ style sin...
25 Jan 202256min
Female Offender Strategy, Midwife shortage, Zara Rutherford, Annalena Baerbock
Concerns that the criminal justice system is not responsive enough to the specific needs of women are longstanding. In June 2018 the government published its Female Offender Strategy. It sought to red...
24 Jan 202257min
Weekend Woman's Hour: Tracey Emin, Ashling Murphy, Adult Literacy
Artist Tracey Emin shares why she wants an artwork she donated to the government’s art collection to be removed from display in Number 10 Downing Street. Last Wednesday afternoon, 23-year-old school t...
22 Jan 202256min
