Margaret Atwood, Harriet Harman MP, Joanna Scanlan, Sportswomen's urinary incontinence
Margaret Atwood's latest collection of essays, Burning Questions, gathers together her essays and other occasional non-fiction pieces from 2004 to 2021. She is the author of more than fifty books of ...
23 Feb 202256min
Competitive cheerleading, Criminal records, Professor Clare Chambers
One in six people in England and Wales have a criminal record. A new campaign #Fairchecks spearheaded by charities Transform Justice and Unlock reveals the experiences of women whose lives have been r...
22 Feb 202256min
Disabled children and exercise, Women escaping domestic abuse, and 'rent farming', Whistler's Woman in White
Today Woman's Hour has an exclusive investigation into the women who have survived domestic violence but are being exploited a second time by ‘rent farming’. These women, trapped in what is known as '...
21 Feb 202256min
Mina Smallman, Workplace Fertility Officers, Covid Jabs for kids, Suffragist Lydia Becker
Mina Smallman, the mother of the murdered sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman is one of the key women who called for Dame Cressida Dick to resign from her position as Metropolitan Commissioner. As...
19 Feb 202257min
Reimagining ‘Jekyll and Hyde’. Author Charmaine Wilkerson. Forensic Scientist Professor Angela Gallop
The National Theatre is embarking on a seven week tour of secondary schools. Their radical reimagining of ‘Jekyll & Hyde’ with two female leads will be watched by more than 10,500 students from across...
18 Feb 202256min
Women protest in India over hijab bans, Comedian, Isabelle Farah, Parents attacked by their children,
Schools in the Indian state of Karnataka reopened yesterday after protests broke out in response to the state government trying to ban women wearing the hijab in classrooms. The issue gained widesprea...
17 Feb 202257min
Virginia Giuffre, Child Protection, Lydia Becker
An out-of-court settlement has been reached between Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre. She'd accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was 17. He's always denied it and hasn't admitted any liab...
16 Feb 202256min
Mina Smallman
Mina Smallman whose daughters were killed in a London park gives her reaction to the latest revelations from the Metropolitan police. Vladimir Putin could launch an invasion of Ukraine "almost imme...
15 Feb 202257min
