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28/03/2024

March 28, 2024 11:36 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MB

Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.

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

March 28, 2024 11:36 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MB

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 teachers say they have experienced sexual harassment from a pupil when working at a school. The teacher workforce is predominantly female, 76% of teachers are women. Nuala McGovern is joined by Dr Patrick Roach, General Secretary of teacher’s union NASUWT. It’s...

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

March 27, 2024 12:27 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MB

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 children's TV executive Kay Benbow, hailed as “Queen of the Beebies”, who has died with historian Dr Emily Baughan and producer Anne Wood. Our reporter Jo Morris talks to the mum of a young man who got into serious trouble with drugs in the third in our series ...

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

March 26, 2024 11:50 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MB

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 the street. Julie Devey, a member of Killed Women whose daughter Poppy was stabbed to death in bed, joins Nuala McGovern alongside Clare Ward KC, who led last year’s independent review into Domestic Homicide Sentencing. When and if a woman chooses to have children i...

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

March 25, 2024 11:37 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MB

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 neighbourhood. The psychological thriller follows their apparently picture-perfect life in Sixties suburbia. The two friends in real life join Nuala McGovern to discuss. A new BBC study of elite British sportswomen shows that many are training and chasin...

Weekend Woman's Hour

March 23, 2024 17:00 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MB

Highlights from the Woman's Hour week

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

March 23, 2024 17:00 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MB

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 women entrepreneurs in the UK last year, according to the website money.co.uk which analysed data from the Office for National Statistics. So we wanted to find out why. Anita was joined by BBC Radio Sheffield’s Paulette Edwards to spe...

Who wants to be a female entrepreneur?

March 22, 2024 14:11 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MB

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 business women and experts about how to start and sustain a thriving business. They investigate how the stubborn barriers of funding, childcare and confidence are still holding women back and explore the interventions needed to bring about lasting change, s...

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

March 21, 2024 12:22 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MB

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 says the Department for Work and Pensions failed to adequately inform the women affected. Emma Barnett hears from Steve Webb, former pensions minister from 2010 to 2015, when changes to pension ages were accelerated, and to Frances Neil, a WASPI co...

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

March 20, 2024 11:38 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MB

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 before 24 weeks of pregnancy. Emma shares her own story and also speaks to a woman who’s decided it’s not for her, and another who applied straight away and has now received four baby loss certificates. Have you ever had a nagging feeling that somet...

Actor Vicky Knight, Conscription, Author Lesley Pearse

March 19, 2024 12:50 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MB

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 would her economic plans mean for women? And how do they compare to the current government’s? Economic Adviser Vicky Pryce and Journalist Lucy Fisher join Emma Barnett to discuss. Bestselling novelist Lesley Pearse has written 31 books and sold over 10 million co...

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

March 18, 2024 11:16 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MB

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 Hospitality, and Ellen Scott, Acting Digital Content Director at Stylist Magazine. Our pornography series continues with 'Elaine', a woman in her late 60s who's worried about her husband's porn use. Followed by a discussion about the effect habitual porn u...

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

March 16, 2024 17:00 - 53 minutes - 48.5 MB

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 the title song to the animated movie Tinkerbell and the Great Fairy Rescue, and topped the charts with dance remixes. She joins Emma to discuss her book and a new album – Coming Home – in which she brings storytelling, poetry, and song, offering personal memories and stories inspi...

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

March 15, 2024 12:57 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MB

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, so today we hear from some of them. Clare McDonnell is joined by the Times journalist Sean Russell, a man in his 30s, and two listeners: Jake, who is in his 40s, and also Gabriel, who is in his 60s. The three share how porn has shaped their sex and rel...

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

March 14, 2024 11:52 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MB

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 talks about hosting the UK's first ever maths summit and the importance of the subject for business. Seven out of 10 candidates who've been selected to stand for the Conservative Party at the next election are men, according to new data gleaned by the journalist Michael...

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

March 13, 2024 12:17 - 57 minutes - 52.2 MB

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 Jo Hamilton, a former post sub-master who was wrongly charged with stealing £36,000 from the Hampshire village post office she ran and BBC Economics Correspondent Andy Verity. A fertility clinic in London has recently had its license suspended over what are being c...

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

March 12, 2024 11:52 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MB

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 ensure their children can eat. Today they’re meeting MPs to campaign for universal free school meals. Organiser Emma Hopkins tells Emma Barnett what they’ll be asking for. A former dancer has brought a legal case against her performing arts school alleging verbal and emotional ...

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

March 11, 2024 14:37 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MB

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 looks at what happened to them. Director Emily Turner and mum ‘Anna’ (not her real name) join Emma Barnett to talk about why they wanted to speak out and share this story. The photograph gracing the front pages this morning of the Princess of Wales with her children, reportedly tak...

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

March 09, 2024 17:00 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MB

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. She also talks about being a woman in the music industry and the strength she has found from fellow female musician Charli XCX. A new documentary, Copa 71, follows the trailblazing women who headed to Mexico for an unofficial Women's World Cup in 19...

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

March 08, 2024 11:16 - 56 minutes - 52.2 MB

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 played in front of crowds of 100,000 fans. One of those players, Chris Lockwood joins Anita Rani alongside co-director of the film Rachel Ramsay. On International Woman's Day Maidenhead MP and former Prime Minister Theresa May has announced she is standin...

Nikki Haley, Pornography series, Author Liz Jensen

March 07, 2024 11:43 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MB

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 at the Harvard Belfer Center, Shannon Felton Spence and director of the US and Americas at Chatham House, Leslie Vinjamuri. The author Liz Jensen’s son Raphael was a wildlife biologist, an environmental activist, and a prominent member of Extinction R...

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

March 06, 2024 11:35 - 56 minutes - 51.3 MB

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. She also talks about being a woman in the music industry and the strength she has found from fellow female musician Charli XCX. The English channel has always held an allure for endurance swimmers the world over, but the first British woman to compl...

Historic abortion law change in France and Pornography series

March 05, 2024 11:59 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MB

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 the change. Singer-songwriter Sarah Jane Morris performs live. We look at what's behind the cuts to Birmingham City Council's budget - equal pay or a new IT system? With Heather Jameson, editor of the Municipal Journal and Dr James Brackl...

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

March 04, 2024 12:14 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MB

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 speaks to the Detective Inspector who interviewed Wayne Couzens, Nick Harvey, and former Detective Superintendent Shabnam Chaudri. If you’ve browsed through political podcasts recently, you’d be forgiven for thinking the guys have got that particular m...

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

March 02, 2024 17:00 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MB

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 at the age of 13. In a moving speech at the Baftas last week, Samantha dedicated the award to every child in care today. Both Republicans and Democrats in the US state of Alabama are trying to find a legal solution that would prot...

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

March 01, 2024 13:07 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MB

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 between Primodos and babies being born with malformations is “factually and morally wrong". The report claims evidence was “covered up” that it's possible to “piece together a case that could reveal one of the biggest medical frauds of the 20th centur...

Alabama IVF, Porn series, Tattoos

February 29, 2024 12:09 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MB

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 that frozen embryos have the same rights as children. Jenny Kleeman speaks to lawyer Eric Wrubel, who specialises in fertility law and Kristia Rumbley who has three frozen embryos at a fertility clinic in Alabama. How is porn shaping our sex lives? In a new Wom...

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

February 28, 2024 11:42 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MB

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 her and her mother Khaola Saleem in 2018. One of Labour’s proposals is for domestic abuse specialists in 999 control rooms so that victims speak to an expert from their first call. Emma speaks to Yvette Cooper in her first broadcast interview on the issue and a...

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

February 27, 2024 12:23 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MB

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 at different stages of their lives. Now Nadine’s latest work - Filthy Underneath – is a raw collection of songs which chronicle a period of unprecedented turbulence in her life from grief to addiction and PTSD. The new...

Actor Samantha Morton, Mary Beard, Leap year proposals

February 26, 2024 12:20 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MB

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 at the age of 13. In a moving speech at the Baftas last week, Samantha dedicated the award to every child in care today. 2024 is a leap year and 29 February is the day when traditionally women are "allowed" to propose to their m...

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

February 24, 2024 17:00 - 56 minutes - 51.5 MB

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 reflection, it was time to take off her wedding rings. Kelsey tells Anita Rani about the decision and how she has dealt with her grief. The Ukrainian government says it has identified 20,000 children who have been abducted by Russian forces. This week saw 11 Ukrainian children re...

Kelsey Parker, 'Sharenting', Maternity leave

February 23, 2024 11:23 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MB

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 reflection, it was time to take off her wedding rings. Kelsey joins Anita Rani in the Woman’s Hour studio to discuss this decision and how she has dealt with her grief. What is the impact of 'sharenting' on the first generation of kids who grew up with it? Dorothy Koomson's new th...

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

February 22, 2024 11:15 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MB

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 with the novelist Colum McCann, called American Mother, in which she recounts the story of her son’s kidnapping and murder, and her campaign to improve the chances of Americans wrongfully detained abroad. She joins Emma Barnett in the studio. In the UK, breast ...

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

February 21, 2024 12:08 - 56 minutes - 52 MB

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 see eleven Ukrainian children reunited with their families. Emma speaks to the BBC’s Hague Correspondent, Anna Holligan and film maker Shahida Tulaganova, who directed the ITV documentary, Ukraine’s Stolen Children. Wicked Little Letters is a new bl...

Tracey Crouch MP, Marina Litvinenko, Author Kiley Reid

February 20, 2024 11:38 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MB

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 healthy majority of more than 18,000 for the Conservatives. A self confessed 'sports nut', in 2015 she attained her dream job as sports minister and oversaw the government’s football governance review. In 2018 she resigned in protest at the government’s 'unjustifiable' refu...

Aisling Bea, Profile of Yulia Navalnaya, Carmen Smith, Wellness v stoicism

February 19, 2024 11:34 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MB

The comedy and acting star Aisling Bea grew up in County Kildare in Ireland and in 2011 became the first woman for 20 years to win the prestigious stand-up competition So You Think You’re Funny? Her Bafta-winning sitcom This Way Up firmly established her as a presence to be reckoned with on our TV screens- last year she played the lead in the film based on Take That’s music, Greatest Days, and she regularly pops up on US TV and movies. She joins Emma Barnett to discuss her latest show, Alice...

Lorraine Kelly, Paralympian Lauren Rowles, Chief Constable Sarah Crew

February 17, 2024 17:00 - 56 minutes - 52 MB

Lorraine Kelly CBE has been described as the queen of morning television. Now after a lifetime of wanting to, she has written her first novel, The Island Swimmer, a story of family secrets, island communities and overcoming fear. Lorraine joins Anita Rani to discuss her novel, her life and her 40-year career. It’s been almost 40 years since most UK coal miners went on strike over pit closures and proposed redundancies. It was one of the most divisive conflicts of a generation – but what rol...

Lorraine Kelly, Actor and boxer Kali Reis, Presenter Gemma Cairney

February 16, 2024 11:20 - 57 minutes - 53 MB

Lorraine Kelly CBE has been described as the queen of morning television. She joined TV-am as their Scottish correspondent in 1984 and, save for a brief maternity leave 30 years ago, has barely left the schedules since - for the last 14 as host of ITV’s Lorraine. Now after a lifetime of wanting to, she has written her first novel, The Island Swimmer, a story of family secrets, island communities and overcoming fear. Lorraine joins Anita Rani to discuss her novel, her life and her 40-year car...

Rain Newton-Smith, Paralympian Lauren Rowles, Homelessness

February 15, 2024 11:35 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MB

In April last year, The Guardian exposed allegations of rape, sexual assault and harassment at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). Rain Newton-Smith took over as Chief Executive and pledged to reform the culture of the organisation. As she approaches a year in the job, Rain speaks to Nuala McGovern about what progress has been made. She also gives her reaction to the news that the UK fell into recession in December 2023. It’s been nearly a year since we announced the Woman’s Hour P...

Surviving cancer five times, Government's independent rape advisor, Miners’ strike 40 years on, My Life with the Walter Boys

February 14, 2024 11:37 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MB

Violence and abuse against shop workers rose to 1,300 incidents a day last year, up by 50% in the year to September 2023. That's according to new figures by the British Retail Consortium. Nuala hears from Michele Whitehead, a workplace rep for USDAW who has worked at a convenience store in Wolverhampton for 20 years. Dr Natalie Yates-Bolton is 57 and has survived cancer five times. The senior lecturer in nursing was first diagnosed at the age of 22 whilst still at university. She's had 11 o...

Joanne Froggatt and Dr Rachel Clarke, Minette Batters, NFU, Israel/Gaza war

February 13, 2024 11:52 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MB

A forthcoming three-part ITV drama Breathtaking, set in a fictionalised London hospital, tells the devastating impact of the Covid-19 pandemic through the eyes of Acute Medical Consultant Dr Abbey Henderson. The series is based on Dr Rachel Clarke’s book of the same name. She worked on Covid wards and is also one of the writers on the series. Dr Henderson is played by Joanne Froggatt, known for many roles including Downton Abbey, Sherwood and Angela Black. They join Emma Barnett to discuss...

Bryony Gordon, Israel-Gaza war, Chief Constable Sarah Crew

February 12, 2024 11:43 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MB

Four years ago, Avon and Somerset Police offered Channel 4 unprecedented access to its Counter Corruption Unit, the people who police the police. The result is a three-part documentary series called To Catch A Copper. Emma Barnett speaks to Sarah Crew, Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset Police, about why she made the decision to let the cameras in, and the consequences of doing so. Bryony Gordon is the bestselling author of The Wrong Knickers, You Got This and Mad Girl. She won the MIND M...

Weekend Woman’s Hour: Rhianon Bragg, Businesswoman and entrepreneur Emma Grede, Amelia Earhart’s legacy

February 10, 2024 17:00 - 55 minutes - 51 MB

Rhianon Bragg was held hostage at gunpoint by her ex-boyfriend, Gareth Wyn Jones, for eight hours. He was sentenced in 2020 for stalking, false imprisonment, making threats to kill and possession of a firearm. Now, despite a parole board panel saying they are not satisfied it would be safe, he is being released from prison. Rhianon tells us about how her relationship with Wyn Jones developed, what happened at the end, and how she feels about him coming out of prison. Ambika Mod stars as Emm...

TikTok sleuths, Widows, Politicising Taylor Swift, Surgery critics 'silenced'

February 09, 2024 11:54 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MB

Yesterday, Kate Garraway returned to Good Morning Britain following the loss of her husband, Derek. She spoke about her reaction to being called a widow for the first time, by a delivery man, apologising for her loss. Anita Rani speaks to Poorna Bell, a journalist and author who lost her husband in 2015, and Karen Sutton, host of The Widow Podcast, who became a trained grief coach after her husband passed away in 2016. Anita Rani talks to a woman who says a cosmetic surgery clinic tried ...

Vapes, Phoebe Dynevor and Amelia Earhart's legacy

February 08, 2024 12:21 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MB

A BBC investigation has uncovered evidence that vapes are being used to groom children into sexual or criminal exploitation. Last week, the Prime Minister announced that disposable vapes are set to be banned as part of plans to tackle the rising number of young people taking up vaping - measures will also be introduced to prevent vapes being marketed at children and to target under-age sales. However, there are concerns that banning the sale of vapes will encourage children to seek them else...

Businesswoman and entrepreneur Emma Grede, Crystal Hefner, Social media algorithms and misogyny

February 07, 2024 11:48 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MB

Emma Grede, a native East Londoner, now a thriving businesswoman in the US, is known for her entrepreneurial prowess and successful collaborations with the Kardashian sisters. Emma is a driving force behind iconic brands like Good American and Skims. She will soon be making her mark as a guest investor on an upcoming episode of BBC’s Dragons' Den, and she joins Emma to explain how she's learned more from her business failures, and what she looks for in a potential investment. The Welsh gov...

Rhianon Bragg, Women of Substance, ultramarathon runner Allie Bailey

February 06, 2024 11:54 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MB

Rhianon Bragg was held hostage at gunpoint by her ex-boyfriend, Gareth Wyn Jones, for eight hours. He was sentenced in 2020 for stalking, false imprisonment, making threats to kill and possession of a firearm. Now, despite a parole board panel saying they are not satisfied it would be safe, he is being released from prison. Rhianon speaks to Emma about how her relationship with Wyn Jones developed, what happened at the end, and how she feels about him coming out of prison. The Prime Ministe...

Ambika Mod, Forgiveness, Grandparent classes, Grammys

February 05, 2024 12:42 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MB

Ambika Mod stars as Emma in the new Netflix adaptation of David Nicholls’ much-loved novel One Day. She acts opposite Leo Woodall as Dex, and their comedic romance plays out over 14 episodes and 20 years. You may have seen Ambika as Shruti, the junior doctor with a pivotal plot line in the BBC labour ward drama This is Going to Hurt. She joins Anita Rani in the Woman’s Hour studio to talk about now taking the lead. A new programme on Radio 4, Forgiveness: Stories from the Front Line, expl...

Weekend Woman’s Hour: Candace Bushnell, Lisa St Aubin de Terán, Ideological Gender Gap

February 03, 2024 17:00 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MB

The creator of Sex and the City, Candace Bushnell, whose column in the New York Observer was the inspiration behind the TV series, joins Anita in the studio. The real-life Carrie Bradshaw is bringing her one-woman show about creating the hit series to the West End and then doing a UK tour. After 20 years of silence, prize-winning author Lisa St Aubin de Terán is back with a new book. Aged 16, Lisa married a Venezuelan landowner-turned-bank robber; she eventually ran away from him with her y...

Candace Bushnell, No Queens in Europe, Early Years recruitment

February 02, 2024 11:21 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MB

Anita Rani speaks to Roopam Carroll, who recently sold her nursery business, and Ellen Broome, Head of Family and Childcare at the charity CORAM. Since the abdication of Queen Margarethe II of Denmark, there are no Queens in Europe. This is the first time this has happened since Queen Isabella of Spain was crowned in 1833. Will this make a difference in Europe? What difference have previous Queens in Europe made? Royal commentator Caroline Aston and journalist Emily Andrews join Anita to di...

Guests

Eve Ensler
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Dan Bell
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Elif Shafak
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Hannah Arendt
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Melinda Gates
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Reshma Saujani
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Sandi Toksvig
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Stephen Wright
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Tracy Chevalier
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