BBC Woman's Hour: Daily Podcasts

Woman's Hour: Daily Podcasts

Woman's Hour brings you the big celebrity names and leading women in the news, with subjects ranging widely from politics to health, law, education, arts, parenting, relationships, work, fiction, food and fashion. Presented by Jenni Murray and Jane Garvey. Find out more at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour
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28 Episodes
1 – 20

06/02/2025

Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
6 Feb 7AM 59 min

Daisy May Cooper, The Bad Guru, Fiona-Lee

Actor and writer Daisy May Cooper shot to fame with This Country, the mockumentary about rural poverty in the Cotswolds that she wrote and starred in with her brother Charlie. She followed that with the lead in BBC/HBO show Rain Dogs and in 2022 she co-wrote and starred in the…
4 Feb 6AM 55 min

Mikey Madison, Jojo Moyes, Inside the RAF

Oscar-nominated actor Mikey Madison joins Clare McDonnell in the Woman’s Hour studio. She speaks about playing the title role in Anora, a film about a sex worker in New York. Mikey spent months embedded in a strip club to fully immerse herself in the world. The film is nominated for…
3 Feb 6AM 59 min

Rumer, Kerry Godliman, Afghan women's cricket

The singer/songwriter Rumer is a MOBO award winner and double Brit Award nominee. Her new album In Session is out today celebrating the 15th anniversary of her platinum debut album Seasons Of My Soul. The success that followed that album affected her mental health. She stepped away from the industry…
31 Jan 5AM 54 min

Polar Preet, 'Swell' poetry, Ballet body-shaming

The Royal Ballet School (RBS) has reached a financial settlement with former student Ellen Elphick who said the body-shaming she experienced while at the elite institution has left her with lifelong psychological damage. The London-based school accepts no liability for the former dancer’s case and has not issued an apology…
30 Jan 6AM 59 min

Women’s refuges and disability, Aisling Walsh, Roxanne de Bastion

In the last year, women with disabilities experienced domestic abuse at more than twice the rate of those without, according to the latest figures from the Crime Survey for England and Wales. Yet data from Women’s Aid shows less than 1% of refuge vacancies in England are suitable for wheelchair…
29 Jan 7AM 57 min

Vicki Pattison's deepfake doc, Kim Wilde, Misogyny, Football academies

Reality star turned documentary filmmaker Vicky Pattison joins Clare McDonnell to discuss her latest project, Vicky Pattison: My Deepfake Sex Tape. The documentary sees her exploring the proliferation of videos generated by AI whereby people’s faces are placed onto pornographic images and shared without their consent. Vicky talks about creating…
28 Jan 6AM 1 hr 20 min

Mary Robinson, Holocaust Memorial Day, Catherine Airey

Mrs Robinson is a feature-length documentary about Ireland’s first female president. Telling her own story of her childhood and career for the first time on screen, it was filmed over three years, and takes a deep-dive into Mary Robinson’s career as she discusses the significant controversies throughout her tenure and…
27 Jan 6AM 1 hour

24/01/2025

Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
24 Jan 5AM 58 min

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, WSL record signing, India rape case

It has been reported that USA women's footballer Naomi Girma has agreed terms to join Chelsea FC for a world record transfer fee of £900,000 or $1.1 million. Anita Rani is joined by Tom Garry, Woman’s Football writer at The Guardian. Nearly three decades ago, Marianne Jean-Baptiste was Oscar nominated…
23 Jan 8AM 1 hr 01 min

Felicity Jones, Eating disorders, Adult sons at home

Felicity Jones has been nominated for a Best Supporting Actress BAFTA for her role in The Brutalist, in which she plays Erzsébet, a Hungarian journalist who emigrates to the US in the late 1950s to join her architect husband. She joins Anita Rani to discuss her portrayal of this complex…
22 Jan 6AM 58 min

21/01/2025

Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
21 Jan 7AM 59 min

Israel-Gaza ceasefire, Donald Trump's inauguration, Runner Elise Downing

After 15 months of devastating conflict, a ceasefire agreement has been reached between Israel and Hamas, and three female hostages – Romi Gonen, Emily Damari, and Doron Steinbrecher - have been released and are now back in Israel. This release is the first of several expected over the next six…
20 Jan 6AM 1 hour

Ofcom's age check guidance, Adwaith, Kamala Harris's legacy, Corridor care

The communications regulator, Ofcom, has published new industry guidance for online services, in which it sets out how it expects online platforms - including social media and porn sites - to introduce highly effective age check measures to prevent children from accessing online pornography and to protect them from other…
16 Jan 6AM 57 min
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