Children with special educational needs and disabilities at academy schools, Kim Cypher, Choreographer Lucy Hind
Academy schools were one of the issues that listeners raised during, and since, Woman’s Hour’s special programme investigating the SEND system for children with special education needs and disabilitie...
28 Nov 202454min
Joan Armatrading, Baroness Lola Young, Melanie Reid
Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Joan Armatrading joins Nuala McGovern to discuss her 23rd studio album, How Did This Happen and What Does it Now Mean?Losing a baby in the early stages of pregnancy ...
27 Nov 202455min
Supreme Court hears case on definition of a woman, Barbara Taylor Bradford's life
Judges at the Supreme Court are today considering how women are defined in law in a landmark case brought by Scottish campaigners. It will address what “sex” means legally, and will set out exactly ho...
26 Nov 202456min
Civil rape case against Conor McGregor, Binge drinking, Chappell Roan
The woman who accused the mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor of raping her has won her civil case against him. He has been ordered to pay nearly a quater of a million euros in damages. Mr McGre...
25 Nov 202456min
Weekend Woman’s Hour: Michelle Yoeh, Primary school suspensions, Katarina Johnson-Thompson
Oscar-winning Michelle Yeoh’s career has spanned four decades. Starting out as a martial arts actor, she became a key figure in the Hong Kong action scene. But it was her role in James Bond film Tomor...
23 Nov 202456min
Adoption, Female Gladiators, Novelist Pyae Moe Thet War
Adopted children may be allowed much closer contact with their birth families in the future as part of “seismic” changes recommended in a new report published earlier this month. At the moment family ...
22 Nov 202457min
Katarina Johnson-Thompson, IVF pioneer, Age of consent in Iraq, Primary School suspensions
Katarina Johnson-Thompson is the double World and double Commonwealth Games heptathon champion. This year she won the Olympic silver medal in Paris, her first ever Olympic medal. Katarina joins Anita ...
21 Nov 202457min
Gillian Anderson, Nurse Bethany Hutchison, Gisèle Pelicot, Film-maker Elizabeth Sankey
Yesterday, the closing arguments were made in the trial of Dominique Pelicot and 50 other men accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot - a case that has not only shocked France but far beyond that country's b...
20 Nov 202457min
