Woman's Hour

Woman's Hour episodes:

• 04.17.2024

  Cricketer Nat Sciver-Brunt, Smacking, Hypochondria, Police drama Blue Lights, Soul Sisters Pakistan

  Nat Sciver-Brunt is the first English woman to be honored as Wisden's leading cricketer in the world. She joins Jesscia Creighton to discuss the accolade and her career in the sport. Smacking children should be made illegal in England...

  
• 04.16.2024

  Hollywood film producer Deborah Snyder, Young women and voting, Machinal star Rosie Sheehy

  Deborah Snyder has produced some of the biggest blockbusters and action franchises in the last decade including Wonder Woman, 300 and Watchmen. Her newest work, Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver arrives on Netflix this week. It's the second...

  
• 04.15.2024

  Jing Lusi, Fatal stabbings in Sydney, Australia, Declaration of the Rights of the Child

  Australian police investigating the fatal stabbing of six people at the crowded shopping centre in Bondi Junction, Sydney say they're looking into whether the attacker deliberately targeted women. Joel Cauchi killed five women - and a male security guard who...

  
• 04.13.2024

  Weekend Woman's Hour: Juliet open letter, Vogue’s Chioma Nnadi, Female Psychopath

  This week, it was announced that 883 actors, writers, comedians and creatives had signed an open letter in support of Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, the star in a new production of Romeo & Juliet, due to run in London's West End next...

  
• 04.12.2024

  Marian Keyes, Juliet open letter, Swiss climate victory

  Irish author Marian Keyes writes funny, clever novels about life including: Rachel’s Holiday, Anybody out There, Grown Ups, Angels. She covers issues such as addiction, break-ups, baby loss, anxiety, depression and love, with women at the heart. We all...

  
• 04.11.2024

  Gloria Steinem at 90, Rebecca Ferguson, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

  The pioneering feminist, journalist and activist Gloria Steinem made a name for herself in the 1960s and 70s through her journalism, which included going undercover at the New York Playboy Club to expose exploitative working conditions. She co-founded the Women's...

  
• 04.10.2024

  The Cass Review, Back to Black, Female Psychopath

  The long awaited Cass Review, published on Wednesday by paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass, calls for gender services for young people to match the standards of other NHS care. Emma Barnett is joined by the former BBC journalist Hannah Barnes, now...

  
• 04.09.2024

  Vogue's Chioma Nnadi, Life in a women’s refuge, Parents jailed after son’s mass shooting

  Emma Barnett talks to the new head of British Vogue Chioma Nnadi, a London born, fashion journalist, podcaster and the first black woman to lead the title. Forensic psychologist Jillian Peterson and legal expert Tim Carey on the sentencing of Jennifer...

  
• 04.08.2024

  Westminster honeytrap scam, What we can learn from toddlers, Saudi Arabia

  Dame Andrea Jenkyns MP has become the first woman to publicly speak about being a victim to the suspected Westminster honeytrap scam. What does the scam mean for politics? And what do we mean by honeytrap? Former deputy chief whip...

  
• 04.06.2024

  Weekend Woman's Hour: Pregnancy discrimination, Girls State and Carly Pearce

  An employment tribunal has ruled that describing an expectant mother as 'emotional' at work was discrimination. Described as a David and Goliath case, Nicola Hinds, who had been an account manager at Mitie, a FTSE 250 company, represented herself. The...

  
• 04.05.2024

  Rwanda genocide, Bowie's hairdresser, womanhood during Ramadan

  Ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Rwanda genocide on Sunday, April 7th, BBC journalist Victoria Uwonkunda returns to the counry for the first time after fleeing the genocide as a child in 1994, to find out how the country,...

  
• 04.04.2024

  Pregnancy discrimination, Prue Leith, Femcels, Social workers on screen

  An employment tribunal has ruled that describing an expectant mother as 'emotional' at work was discrimination. Described as a David and Goliath case, Nicola Hinds, who had been an account manager at Mitie, a FTSE 250 company, represented herself. The...

  
• 04.03.2024

  Girls State, Author Holly Gramazio, First female prime minister of the DRC

  In the run-up to local elections in England and Wales, the Local Government Alliance have called for the law to change around publicising local councillors' home addresses. This is after some councillors are warning that a recent upsurge of abuse...

  
• 04.02.2024

  Scotland's hate crime law, Motherhood and art, Actor Rachael Stirling

  Scotland's new hate crime law came in to effect yesterday. The Act creates a crime of "stirring up hatred" relating to age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity or being intersex. To discuss the concerns some women have Emma Barnett...

  
• 04.01.2024

  Women in Country Music

  From Beyoncé's new country album to Shania headlining Glastonbury, country music is reaching new heights of popularity. Who are the women leading the charge, who are the icons who inspired them, and how many barriers are still left to be...

  
• 03.30.2024

  Weekend Woman's Hour: Katie Price, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain, Biba exhibition

  Model turned TV personality Katie Price joins Clare McDonnell to talk about her views on young women getting cosmetic surgery, after having several procedures herself. It’s 60 years since the first Biba shop opened and the Fashion and Textile Museum...

  
• 03.29.2024

  Katie Price, A decade of same-sex marriage, From policing to crime-writing

  Model turned TV personality Katie Price joins Clare McDonnell to talk about her views on young women getting cosmetic surgery, after having several procedures herself. Today marks ten years since the first marriages of lesbian couples in England & Wales....

  
• 03.28.2024

  Biba exhibition, Pupil behaviour, Australian politician Georgie Purcell, Breaking the cycle

  Nearly one in five teachers working in England has been hit by a pupil, according to a new BBC commissioned survey of 9,000 teachers. The survey, gathered between February and March this year, also found that 15% of secondary school...

  
• 03.27.2024

  Stoning of Women in Afghanistan, Jazz with Zara McFarlane, AI job losses & women

  The leader of the Taliban has declared on state television that women who commit adultery will be stoned to death. Nuala McGovern speaks to the former deputy speaker of the Afghan Parliament, Fawzia Koofi. We look at the legacy of...

  
• 03.26.2024

  Killed Women campaign, Anti-ageing products and young girls, France birth rate

  Killed Women is a group formed of relatives of women who were murdered in domestic abuse situations. They are campaigning to get the minimum sentence for domestic homicide raised, so it’s the same as if the victim was killed on...

  
• 03.25.2024

  Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain, Breaking the cycle, Musih Tedji Xaviere

  Described as a grim portrayal of human nature, Mothers’ Instinct is a film about the darker side of maternal love. Academy Award-winning actresses Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway play best friends raising sons of the same age in the same...

  
• 03.23.2024

  Weekend Woman's Hour: Laura Kenny, Actor Vicky Knight, baby loss certificates

  Dame Laura Kenny, Britain's most decorated female Olympian, talks to Emma Barnett about her sporting career, motherhood and her decision to quit cycling. Friday’s Woman’s Hour came live from Doncaster which came bottom of one league table for opportunities for...

  
• 03.22.2024

  Who wants to be a female entrepreneur?

  Woman’s Hour is joined by BBC Radio Sheffield in Doncaster for a special live panel show to find out how to be a successful female entrepreneur. Woman’s Hour presenter Anita Rani and BBC Sheffield presenter Paulette Edwards talk to local...

  
• 03.21.2024

  Waspi women, Dr Jen Gunter, The Liverbirds, Child poverty

  A long-awaited report on how women born in the 1950s were affected by increases to their retirement age - the so-called WASPI women, which stands for women against state pension inequality - has been published today. It recommends compensation and...

  
• 03.20.2024

  Baby loss certificates, 'Women's intuition', Carolynne Hunter & energy bills

  On 27 February, Emma Barnett spoke to Zoe Clark-Coates, who runs the baby loss and bereavement charity The Mariposa Trust, about her campaign for baby loss certificates. They were introduced in England in February for parents who’ve lost a baby...

  
• 03.19.2024

  Actor Vicky Knight, Conscription, Author Lesley Pearse

  The Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves is today delivering a speech in which she’ll promise to ‘reform the Treasury’. If Labour were to win the next General Election, she would be the first female Chancellor the UK has seen. But what...

  
• 03.18.2024

  Olympian cyclist Dame Laura Kenny, Actor Imogen Poots, Pornography series

  Dame Laura Kenny, Britain's most decorated female Olympian, talks to Emma Barnett about her sporting career, motherhood and her decision to quit cycling. Are we staying in more since the pandemic? We talk to Kate Nicholls OBE, CEO of UK...

  
• 03.16.2024

  Weekend Woman’s Hour: Irish folk singer Cara Dillon, The Hampstead Paedophile Hoax, Maximalism

  Cara Dillon won the All Ireland singing trophy aged only 14 and has gone on to receive countless awards and accolades including Album Of The Year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. She has worked for Disney – singing...

  
• 03.15.2024

  Men & porn, Women's Diaries, South Korea birth rate

  As part of our ongoing series on pornography and how it’s shaping our relationships, we’ve heard from many of our female listeners whose attitudes and feelings towards porn vary greatly. Men are still the major consumers and producers of porn,...

  
• 03.14.2024

  Folk singer Cara Dillon, Diane Abbott and racist abuse, Haiti

  Folk singer Cara Dillon joins Emma Barnett to discuss her book and a new album – Coming Home – which explores themes of family, identity and home. Host of the UK’s first ever maths summit, mathmetician Anne-Marie Imafidon...

  
• 03.13.2024

  IVF clinic license suspended, Porn series, 'Queens' wildlife programme

  A new law will be introduced in the House of Commons at lunchtime today to clear the names of the hundreds of sub-postmasters wrongly convicted for theft and false accounting. To discuss what this means Emma Barnett is joined by...

  
• 03.12.2024

  Body shaming in dance, Author Charlotte Wood, Mothers’ Manifesto

  A group of mums called Mothers' Manifesto are on day three of a five-day hunger strike in front of Parliament. They’re trying to draw attention to food insecurity and the plight of mums who have to go without food to...

  
• 03.11.2024

  The Hampstead Paedophile Hoax, Jennie Lee MP, England Rugby player Meg Jones

  For the first time, four mums are speaking out about what it was like to be at the centre of a conspiracy that went viral, even reaching the USA. Accused: The Hampstead Paedophile Hoax is a new documentary that...

  
• 03.09.2024

  Weekend Woman’s Hour – Music artist Raye, COPA 71 and Imelda May on the Yeats sisters

  The South London singer-songwriter Raye joins Emma Barnett following her record-breaking six wins at the Brit awards last weekend. Raye tells us about her grandma Agatha who joined her on stage after winning Best Album for My 21st Century Blues....

  
• 03.08.2024

  Women's Football in '71, Mollie King, Female psychopaths

  A new documentary, Copa 71, follows the trailblazing women who headed to Mexico for an unofficial Women's World Cup in 1971. Woman's football had been banned in many countries including the UK for 50 years. Unperturbed 6 teams gathered and...

  
• 03.07.2024

  Nikki Haley, Pornography series, Author Liz Jensen

  Nikki Haley has officially dropped out of the race to become Republican candidate for US President. So what does this mean for the upcoming elections, for women voters and also for women in politics? Emma Barnett speaks to political strategist...

  
• 03.06.2024

  Raye, Women swimming the Channel, Anita Hill, Adaptive fashion

  The South London singer-songwriter Raye joins Emma Barnett following her record-breaking six wins at the Brit awards last weekend. Raye tells us about her grandma Agatha who joined her on stage after winning Best Album for My 21st Century Blues....

  
• 03.05.2024

  Historic abortion law change in France and Pornography series

  Two years after the US Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion, lawmakers in France yesterday made history by enshrining this right in their country's constitution - it was a global first. We talk to Stephanie Hennette-Vauchez about...

  
• 03.04.2024

  Sarah Everard's murder 3 years on, Jess Phillips MP and Baroness Ruth Davidson, singer CMAT

  On the 3rd March 2021, Sarah Everard was murdered by Wayne Couzens, an off-duty police officer. The incident sparked national outrage and a surge in fighting violence against women and girls. Three years on, how much has changed? Emma Barnett...

  
• 03.02.2024

  Weekend Woman’s Hour: Actor Samantha Morton, Alabama IVF, Andi and Charlotte Osho

  The twice Oscar-nominated actor Samantha Morton has just received the Bafta Fellowship: a lifetime achievement award which recognises an outstanding contribution to film and television. She grew up in the social care system and began working in film and television...

  
• 03.01.2024

  Female history in 101 objects, Big hair, Toilet training and schools, Primodos

  A parliamentary committee has issued a new and scathing report about Primodos - a pregnancy test drug issued by doctors between the1950s and 1970s. The All Party Parliamentary Group on Hormone Pregnancy Tests says claims there is no proven link...

  
• 02.29.2024

  Alabama IVF, Porn series, Tattoos

  Both Republicans and Democrats in the US state of Alabama are trying to find a legal solution that would protect access to IVF treatment, after a court ruling cast doubt on its future. Alabama's Supreme Court ruled earlier this month...

  
• 02.28.2024

  Yvette Cooper on Raneem's Law, Porn review, Andi and Charlotte Osho, Lucia Keskin

  Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is calling for 'Raneem’s Law' in memory of a 22-year-old woman who was stabbed to death by her ex-husband. Raneem Oudeh spoke to police five times in less than two hours before her ex-husband killed...

  
• 02.27.2024

  Nadine Shah, Vivian Oparah, Baby loss certificates, Amber Heard trolling

  Through her songs, the Mercury prize nominated singer/songwriter Nadine Shah has explored mental health, the refugee crisis and feminism. The subject matter of her last album, Kitchen Sink, included themes of fertility, tradition and identity told through the stories of women...

  
• 02.26.2024

  Actor Samantha Morton, Mary Beard, Leap year proposals

  The twice Oscar-nominated actor Samantha Morton has just received the Bafta Fellowship: a lifetime achievement award which recognises an outstanding contribution to film and television. She grew up in the social care system and began working in film and television...

  
• 02.24.2024

  Kelsey Parker, Ukraine's children, Black girls in education, Aisling Bea

  It has been almost two years since the death of The Wanted star Tom Parker after he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour in 2020 aged 33. His wife, Kelsey Parker, announced last month that, after a lot of...

  
• 02.23.2024

  Kelsey Parker, 'Sharenting', Maternity leave

  It has been almost two years since the death of The Wanted star Tom Parker after he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour in 2020 aged 33. His wife, Kelsey Parker, announced last month that, after a lot of...

  
• 02.22.2024

  Mistresses, Ultrasound 'bra', Diane Foley, Black girls in education

  It is has been 11 years since the American journalist James Foley was kidnapped in northern Syria, and nearly a decade since his mother, Diane Foley, discovered he had been beheaded by Islamic State fighters. Diane has written a book...

  
• 02.21.2024

  Ukraine children, Director of Wicked Little Letters Thea Sharrock, The implications of a new AI study on the brain

  This week marks two years since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine's government says it has identified 20,000 children who have been abducted by Russian forces. Now Qatar has brokered the third and largest deal, which will...

  
• 02.20.2024

  Tracey Crouch MP, Marina Litvinenko, Author Kiley Reid

  Former government minister Tracey Crouch has joined the list of MPs who’ve said they won’t be standing at the next general election. She won the former Labour seat of Chatham and Aylesford in 2010 and has turned it into a...