Dame Tracey Emin, Doreen Soulsby, Dame Maureen Lipman, Young Adult Fiction
Dame Tracey Emin, one of the most famous artists and leading figures of the Young British Artists movement of the 1990s. Hers is a uniquely provocative, confessional style which confronts issues such ...
20 Sep 202456min
Maternity care, Friends 30th anniversary, Breast implant illness
Maternity failings at scandal-hit hospitals are becoming more widespread, according to the Care Quality Commission. In a review of 131 maternity units across the NHS in England, 48% have been rated as...
19 Sep 202456min
Saoirse Ronan, Nikki Doucet on women’s football, JoJo, Vaccinations
Four-time Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan broke into Hollywood at 13 years old with her performance as Briony Tallis in Atonement. She has also appeared as Jo March in Little Women, as the lead actress in...
18 Sep 202456min
Kim Cattrall, Sex offender treatment, At-home cervical screening, Author Sarah Pearse
The actress Kim Cattrall has starred in films and on stage, but is probably best known for TV series Sex And The City. She is now in a new audio drama, Central Intelligence, which tells the story of t...
17 Sep 202457min
Sandi Toksvig, Breast cancer study, Carrie Hope Fletcher
Writer, comic, theatrical impresario, TV host and weekend chainsaw wielder Sandi Toksvig joins Clare McDonnell to talk about Friends of Dorothy, her first adult novel in 12 years. When Stevie and Ambe...
16 Sep 202454min
Weekend Woman's Hour: Tracy-Ann Oberman, the SEND system, Sarah Owen MP
Tracy-Ann Oberman has reprised her role as Eastenders’ Chrissie Watts. She talks to Nuala about stepping back into this character after almost two decades, and her recent adaptation of Shakespeare’s T...
14 Sep 202456min
Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, Adoption breakdown, Visual artist Bharti Kher, Fawzia Mirza
The Chief Executive of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre has stepped down. It follows an independent review which found the centre failed to protect women-only spaces. It was commissioned by Rape Crisis Sc...
13 Sep 202456min
New chair of the Women and Equalities Select Committee, Tracy Chevalier, France rape trial
The newly elected Chair of the Women and Equalities Select Committee, Labour MP Sarah Owen, joins Anita Rani on the programme to discuss the remit of her new role and what she hopes to achieve. Tracy ...
12 Sep 202457min
