Sports Shorts from WRN brings you all the latest on our campaigns and women's sports news, together with our weekly features, "sin bin" and "star of the week".

In this first episode of 2025, the WRN Sports Team review England Hockey's new competition policy, bring us up to speed on the boycotting debate dominating the ICC Champions Trophy and discuss Sophie Power and She Races and why women only races are important. 

We also discover who's bowled us over as our star of the week, and who deserved to be run out into the sin bin. 

WRN's Heather Binning talks with writer, activist and journalist, Joan Smith about her latest book, Unfortunately, She Was a Nymphomaniac which "reinterprets the bloody, violent story of twenty-three women closely associated with the Julio-Claudian emperors of Rome. The book pieces together the human stories, showing how they struggled for control of their lives at a time when both the law and the culture were stacked against them." 

Taking questions from an enthralled audience of WRN members, Joan shares her motivations for the book, the experiences that informed her thinking and the challenge she poses to the dominant narrative which rehabilitates the men, whilst victim-blaming the women. And of course; we find out what inspired the title. 

In this end of year review episode, the team take us through a year of WRN Women and Sport campaigning. From talking to dads outside cricket grounds, to taking the "mother" Save Women's Sport banner to the Paris Olympics; it's been a memorable year. Join Jane and Faye for the last Sports Shorts podcast of the year, as they announce WRN's Sports Awards 2024 and give their predictions and hopes for the year ahead.

Visit the WRN website for all the latest guides and templates mentioned in the episode, including Sex Segregated Sport in the UK: A Lawful Approach to Policy Making. 

Sports Shorts from WRN brings you all the latest on our campaigns and women's sports news, together with our weekly features, "sin bin" and "star of the week". 

In this week's episode there are shocking revelations from WRN's Leisure Centre report, highlighting the policies which disadvantage women and put them at risk, and invite you to contact us with your concerns. 

The team speak to Lynne Pinches, one year on from her dramatic walkout at the Women's Champion of Champions pool tournament, and we hear her very personal story of the ways in which standing up for fairness in her sport has affected her. 

In the sin bin this week, we call out a Government minister, and our star of the week has written a powerful piece on the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), and their new transgender policy. 

• Lynne Pinches Crowdfunder
• If you would like to contact the team in confidence about your experience of local leisure centres, please email: [email protected]
• A link to the Leisure Centre report can be found on the WRN website

Sports Shorts from WRN brings you all the latest on our campaigns and women's sports news; including football, volleyball and our weekly features, "sin bin" and "star of the week".
In this week's episode we stand together with our German sisters as Germany's self-determination act comes into force and we bring news from the US where female volleyball players are demanding that their rights to safety and fair competition are upheld.
We get a history lesson from Jane on sex verification tests, our star of the week calls out a Baroness with a sports brief and in the sin bin, we have another own goal from the Football Association. 

We welcome feedback and any women's sports news from around the UK. 

Sports Shorts from WRN brings you all the latest on our campaigns and women's sports news; including football, fencing and our weekly features, "sin bin" and "star of the week".

In this week's episode frustrations are running high with the Football Association (again), and with news from the Veteran Fencing World Championships in Dubai.
The team discuss the incredible achievements of American swimmer Trudy Ederle, whose story is brought to life in the Disney film Young Woman and the Sea, and we reach dizzying heights with our "star of the week". You'll find a repeat offender in the "sin bin" this week, there's news of a crowd funder in pool, and the team give a well-deserved shout out to the Telegraph's Oliver Brown. 

We welcome feedback and any women's sports news from around the UK. 

Sports Shorts from WRN brings you all the latest on our campaigns and women’s sports news; including parkrun, volleyball and our weekly features “sin bin” and “star of the week”. 

In this episode the team reflect on a weekend of action to mark parkrun’s 20th anniversary, discuss Team GB trampolinist and Olympic gold medal winner Bryony Page, and we hear from a less than impressed Jane, as she wrestles with the "sin bin" at a Diversity and Inclusion webinar. 

We welcome feedback and any women’s sports news from around the UK. 

The Sports Group has launched a podcast: Sports Shorts from WRN. Get the latest women's sport campaign news from the team, plus updates on our autumn-winter actions, including parkrun (5th October), football (the 72 campaign), netball updates, and our weekly features, "sin bin" and "star of the week".

In this first episode, the team talk us through the latest parkrun campaigning and they discuss the head coach of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team and legendary coach of Chelsea FC, Emma Hayes and her new book A Completely Different Game: My Leadership Playbook.

We welcome feedback and any women's sports news from around the UK.

Author Drew Augustine returns to the WRN podcast to read an extract from her crime thriller, The Twenty Murders, a dark and compelling story set amidst the culture wars. 

As its protagonist Detective Constable Morven MacLeod goes undercover, we are drawn into the fury and fear that descends upon a women's meeting. 

WRN Scotland's Mary Howden hosts a book group discussion with Drew Augustine about her first gender critical novel, the crime thriller Twenty Murders, which follows the hunt for a serial killer in Scotland. Set against and influenced by real events, Drew explains how she wanted to write a book with purpose  and one that would surface the issues around gender ideology, not just for women and children, but in the capturing of our institutions, and how she will always find space for romance and a dog in her novels.