This week we discuss the 20 year anniversary of Princess Diana's death, L'Oreal's mistreatment of Munroe Bergdorf and we explore the challenges of building a brand for women of colour. Our #backdatedbadass is presented by Harriet Hall, Digital Features Editor of Stylist Magazine.

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Joss Whedon's ex-wife has written an open letter claiming that anyone calling Whedon a feminist has been grossly misled. Is it actually possible for any man to be a feminist and if it isn't, does that mean we have to take Buffy off our Netflix favourites?

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If you could reinvent one product what would it be? Dr Sarah Welsh and Farrah Kabir decided they wanted to rethink condoms. They explain to us why their company is changing safe sex forever and what it takes to launch a sex brand. Plus we learn about feminist campaigner Millicent Fawcett and answer the age old question: can men and women ever just be friends?

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What can the older generation learn from millennial women? Ann Shoket (former editor-in-chief of Seventeen magazine and author of The Big Life) believes that millennials have the secrets of happiness, if we'd only listen to them. Follow us on Twitter:@badasswomenshr@harrietminter@natdcampbell@emmasexton@annshoket

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What do you do when life doesn't turn out as you planned? Fashion blogger and body positivity campaigner Natalie Lee (aka Style Me Sunday) talks to us about how her family coped when her daughter was diagnosed with a degenerative eye condition. We also talk about partition and how we teach history in British schools, what to talk about at a job interview and the legend that is Millicent Fawcett. Follow us on Twitter:@badasswomenshr@harrietminter@natdcampbell@emmasexton@stylemesunday

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After reading a brilliant Twitter thread on why Friends should have let the Rachel and Joey relationship work, we debate the sitcom's enduring romance and whether it's influenced our own romantic beliefs. Props to @kaneandgriffin whose brilliant Twitter musings inspired this week's extra bits.

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We talk 21st century chick-lit with author Lucy Vine, debate what we would have done with the Google emailer, help one 26 year old whose life is a hot mess and learn all about the founder of Breast Cancer Care.

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With the news that a new campaign has launched to teach schoolchildren more about breastfeeding, we ask which other outdated taboos schools should be breaching.

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Can you create a business which doesn't just turn a profit but also does some good? How do we really embed flexible working? And what do we need to do to bring mums back to the workforce? Plus we help one listener decide whether or not to follow her heart and move abroad, and we learn about the first Irish woman to fly a plane.

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If you're lying on the beach right now...then watch out, if you're anything like us it's all about to go wrong.

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