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
Daily English United Kingdom News · Society & Culture
28 Episodes
1 – 20

30/11/2023

Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
30 Nov 2023 7AM 59 min

Dame Harriet Walter, Runner Eilish McColgan, Post-mastectomy bras

Award-winning actor Dame Harriet Walter is back on stage at the National Theatre in Federico Lorca’s newly-adapted The House of Bernada Alba. After a break of seven years playing assorted television roles including ‘difficult’ mothers in Succession and Ted Lasso, she’s back treading the boards and once again playing a…
27 Nov 2023 7AM 59 min

Sharon Osbourne, Shani Dhanda, Nurses and their mental health

For more than two decades, Sharon Osbourne has been a regular feature on our screens. She came to prominence while appearing with her husband Ozzy on The Osbournes - a reality television show on MTV, which followed the family's daily life. She later became a talent show judge on television…
24 Nov 2023 7AM 59 min

Jodie Whittaker, Ofsted Chief Inspector Amanda Spielman

Actor Jodie Whittaker joins Woman’s Hour to talk about her role in a new Australian six part drama called One Night. Shot in New South Wales the story unfolds around three women from a coastal community whose reunion after many years apart is intensified by the publishing of a novel…
23 Nov 2023 7AM 58 min

Carry On films, Sonographer training

Barbara Windsor, Hattie Jacques and Joan Sims were some of the iconic women who starred in the Carry On films from the late 1950s onwards. From Carry on Camping to Carry on Doctor, the humour relied largely on innuendo, double entendre and slapstick comedy, with the women viewed as objects…
21 Nov 2023 7AM 57 min

The contraceptive pill, Dr Who actor Jemma Redgrave, The history of eyeliner

It’s Doctor Who’s 60th year and to celebrate, there will be three anniversary specials coming to your screens starting next week. Jemma Redgrave will be returning as Kate Stewart - Chief Scientific Officer at UNIT - the military organisation set up to investigate alien threats to earth. Jemma speaks to…
16 Nov 2023 7AM 57 min

Justice, endometriosis, and Minnie the Minx

Justice Secretary Alex Chalk on plans for sentencing reform and what that will mean for women. An endometriosis charity has faced criticism for appointing a trans woman as CEO. Emma Barnett speaks to Steph Roberts, the CEO of Endometriosis South Coast, and Jodie Hughes, chair of the trustees who made…
15 Nov 2023 6AM 57 min

13/11/2023

Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
13 Nov 2023 7AM 58 min

10/11/2023

Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
10 Nov 2023 6AM 57 min

09/11/2023

Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
9 Nov 2023 6AM 58 min

08/11/2023

Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
8 Nov 2023 7AM 58 min
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