Woman's Hour
1,771 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 251 ratingsWomen's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
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Covid-19. Jane Garvey takes your calls.
March 16, 2020 11:58 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBJane Garvey takes your calls on Covid-19. Joined by Psychologist Laverne Antrobus and Sarah Stewart Brown Professor of Public Health at Warwick University . What measures are you putting in place? How will you manage with young as well as older children, do you face particular problems with those that have special needs. What about work ? If you are someone who can work at home do you have the tech to support that. Have you thought about setting up a local neighbourhood support networ...
Jessie & Lennie Ware, Christina Lamb, Barriers to disclosing sexual violence.
March 14, 2020 17:00 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBWe hear from the singer turned interviewer Jessie Ware and her mum Lennie about their hit podcast Table Manners, where they cook dinner for a different celebrity every week. They’ve turned their favourite recipes into a cook book. Black Women and sexual violence. What are the cultural barriers making it difficult for black women to discuss and disclose sexual violence? And what is cultural betrayal theory? Chief Foreign correspondent Christina Lamb tells us about her new book ‘Our Bodie...
Why black women struggle to discuss sexual violence; Self-isolating as a family
March 13, 2020 12:34 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBOver the past few years we have seen a number of high profile men being publically accused of sexual abuse and assault. It’s become a pinnacle aspect of the #MeToo movement. So why is the act of speaking out still met with so much resentment? Why is it so difficult to criticise male celebrities who have large followings? And how much more complex does this issue become when it intersects with race? Jacqueline Springer is a contemporary black music and culture journalist and lecturer. Leanne L...
Parenting Podcast: Working with your Mum, with Jessie Ware and Lennie Ware
March 12, 2020 12:32 - 12 minutes - 11.8 MBJessie and Lennie Ware on their relationship since making their Table Manners podcast
BBC's Young Reporter, Women's History, Leftover Women
March 12, 2020 11:28 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBBBC Young Reporter Competition is in its second year. More than 2000 young people suggested an original story idea that they wanted the BBC to report on and it was Kay from Bristol who won gold this year. She's 19 now but when she was 12 she was sectioned under the Mental Health Act. She's now volunteering at a hospital and it's been life-changing. Our reporter Ena Miller met Kay and her mum, Eileen, at home in Bristol. March is a big month for women. We have International Women’s Day and Wo...
Women in Music: Woman’s Hour at the 6 Music Festival
March 11, 2020 16:15 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBWe’re celebrating women in music with this special collaboration between Woman’s Hour and BBC 6 Music, recorded at the 6 Music Festival in Camden, North London. Presenter Georgie Rogers goes backstage at the historic Roundhouse venue to speak to some of the brilliant female artists on the line-up about the women that inspire them and their experiences of the music industry. Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes tells Georgie how it feels to call the shots as a solo artist and shares the women ...
Crazy Cat Ladies, Female QCs and Rough sex as defence
March 11, 2020 13:22 - 43 minutes - 40 MBIf you are man and own a cat, you are a man with a cat. If you are a woman with one, you are a crazy cat lady. Recently the term crazy cat lady has been reclaimed in a positive way on social media but many say it is a pejorative term used against women who break from tradition. Alice Maddicott is the author of Cat Women and writer Kat Brown has two cats, Ambridge and Genevieve and has written about the support they gave her during fertility treatment. Next week 114 new QCs will receive thei...
Digital sisterhood; Christina Lamb; Learning to swim
March 10, 2020 13:32 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBFriendship can be one of the most powerful and important aspects of any woman’s life. We explore what sisterhood means to different women at different points in their lives. Kelechi Okafor, Danielle Dash and Seyi Akiwowo all met online. They all have large social media followings and talk about the importance of digital sisterhood. Foreign correspondent Christina Lamb has reported on wars for over thirty years. She has now written a major book, Our Bodies Their Battlefield, exposing how in...
Jessie & Lennie Ware, Nadine Shah, Naomi Wolf & The Beauty Myth 30 years on
March 09, 2020 12:40 - 44 minutes - 41 MBPopstar turned podcaster Jessie Ware and her mum Lennie Ware discuss working together in their hit podcast Table Manners where they cook dinner for a different celebrity every week. Should racing be doing more to celebrate the fact that it is one of the few sports where men and women compete in the same events? We speak to Jockey Lizzie Kelly - the first woman to win a Grade One race in Britain and now holder of two Grade Ones and two Cheltenham Festival winners. As Cheltenham starts again ...
The power of crying, Hubble astronaut Kathryn Sullivan, Children and Coronavirus
March 07, 2020 17:00 - 56 minutes - 51.5 MBThe power of crying - Keith Brymer-Jones, one of the judges on the Great Pottery Throw Down, the psychoanalyst and psychotherapist Susie Orbach, and voice coach Joanna Cross discuss. Kathryn Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space, was an astronaut in the team that launched the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990. After mastectomies the aim is to make breasts look and feel as they did before but sensitivity tends to suffer. Sarafina Nance is leading a campaign to increase understand...
Live from the Women of the World Festival
March 06, 2020 14:34 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBJenni Murray presents Woman’s Hour live from the Southbank Centre in London where the Women of the World Festival will be celebrating their 10th anniversary this weekend. Founded by Jude Kelly a decade ago, Jenni will be speaking to her about what inspired her to create an organisation that has involved two million people in 30 locations on six continents. What have been her stand out moments and where does the conversation need to go now? Initially offered for free following an Instagram ch...
Parenting Podcast: Children and Coronavirus
March 05, 2020 14:05 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MBReducing anxiety in children, and helping them protect themselves and others.
Photographer Doris Derby. Composer Emily Hall. What's behind the success of TikTok?
March 05, 2020 11:50 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBWe hear about the impetus to chronicle the civil rights struggle in 1960s Mississippi from photographer Doris Derby Women will be disproportionally affected by climate change. But they’re also at the forefront of campaigning against it. One of the most famous, Greta Thunberg, was in Bristol last week addressing crowds of young people. But have things changed since her first school strike in 2018? According to a new book, ‘Our House is on Fire – Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis’, th...
Abi Dare, Breast Surgery, Coronavirus
March 04, 2020 12:50 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBAbi Dare has written a novel about house girls in Nigeria. It's called The Girl with the Louding Voice. The main character is Adunni who's 14 and has been sold into domestic servitude. She becomes a victim of rape, abuse and poverty but more than anything, she wants an education. Coronavirus is dominating the news. There's a risk that the TV, radio, and social media coverage can be scary for children. So how do we reassure them, and how do we get the message across that what they do can prot...
Hubble astronaut Kathryn Sullivan; Romy Gill cooks spicy chickpeas; Reducing domestic violence
March 03, 2020 12:06 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MBKathryn Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space, was an astronaut in the team that launched the Hubble Space Telescope on April 25th, 1990. She joins Jane to talk about her experience of being a female astronaut in the '90s, and maintaining and repairing the most productive observatory in history. The UK government is a world-leading investor in research on the prevention of violence against women and girls. Between 2013 and 2019 it has invested £25 million in pilots across 12 co...
Hadley Freeman, The Power of Crying, Staying in Touch with Children when you're in Prison
March 02, 2020 13:04 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBHadley Freeman has written a memoir, House of Glass, the story of her Jewish relatives across the 20th century, her grandmother and great uncles who fled Poland for Paris after the anti-Jewish pogroms in 1918. We discuss the pros and cons of crying particularly if you're in public. What's it like trying to stay in touch with your children when you're in prison? And what happens when you're on the outside again? Jane talks to Kelly who is in a documentary about women in prison, and to the...
29/02/2020
February 29, 2020 17:01 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBOn Monday, Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of committing a criminal sexual act and third degree rape - and could go to jail for over 20 years. He was acquitted of two counts of predatory sexual assault. While some are celebrating the verdict as the start of a new era and a sign of changing public attitudes towards sexual assault, Weinstein's lead attorney Donna Rotunno promised to appeal, saying "the fight is not over". So what does the ruling mean for women? The man booker prize winning a...
Helen Lewis on Difficult Women, elder abuse in care homes, the National Women's Register
February 28, 2020 12:07 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MBHelen Lewis discusses her new book ‘Difficult Women: a history of feminism in 11 fights’ and why she believes that today’s feminists could gain from being more generous to the feminists of previous generations. A new Care Quality Commission report says that in a three month period in 2018, 899 sexual incidents or incidents of alleged sexual abuse were reported that took place in adult social care services such as residential and nursing homes. Elderly women were the ones most at risk. Jenni ...
When your child has cancer...
February 27, 2020 12:01 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBChildhood cancer is thankfully rare and the past few decades have seen dramatic improvements in the outlook for children diagnosed with the disease; today more than three-quarters survive. We hear from three mothers – Sam, June and Jenny - whose children were diagnosed. How did they cope day to day watching their offspring struggle through endless treatment? How does it impact the rest of the family? And how has the experience affected their response to the world around them? Presenter: Jenn...
Mercury retrograde. A new study into eating disorders. Clever working class women in the UK. Author Anne Enright.
February 26, 2020 11:43 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBAstrology concepts such as retrogrades and returns are no longer niche, they’re meme-worthy, and horoscopes have evolved from a bit of fun into revered life guidance. This isn’t the first time astrology has been part of the Zeitgeist, but it’s definitely enjoying a mainstream moment. So as Mercury the planet that rules technology, travel and communication is retrograde for the first time this year, we look at what that really means and the impact it could have on our life. An estimated 1.24...
Sharon Horgan, Weinstein verdict, Dads and Hair, and Noor Inayat-Khan
February 25, 2020 12:25 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBThe Military Wives Choir captured the nation’s hearts when they got the number one spot in the Christmas chart in 2011. In her new film, Sharon Horgan plays one of the women who got the choir started. She joins us to discuss working on the feel-good project. Yesterday, Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of committing a criminal sexual act and third degree rape - and could go to jail for over 20 years. He was acquitted of two counts of predatory sexual assault. While some are celebrating the v...
Family Secrets. Author Michelle Gallen. Women protesting in India.
February 24, 2020 12:36 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBWe continue our series Family Secrets. Listener Melanie explains why she finally went to the police to reveal her family secret after 37 years. There's global attention on President Trump’s trip to India – a guest of Prime Minister Modi of the Hindu Nationalist BJP. This morning he'll be making a speech at a cricket stadium in Gujarrat. Meanwhile- hundreds of women are said to be on hunger strike in Uttar Pradesh in the north of the country, protesting about new Citizenship laws. Sa...
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Emetophobia, a Perfect Winter Salad
February 22, 2020 17:00 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBPhoebe Waller-Bridge, famous for Fleabag and Killing Eve, is on the programme. We hear why the fear of being sick or hearing others be sick affects more women than men. It's called emetophobia and someone who suffers from it explains what it's like. Professor David Veale, a consultant psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital, joins us too. Islamic faith marriages aren’t valid under English law according to a recent Court of Appeal ruling. Now campaigners are worried that thousands of Muslim w...
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
February 21, 2020 09:58 - 42 minutes - 39 MBPhoebe Waller-Bridge, the award-winning writer and creator of Fleabag, tells Jenni Murray about all things Fleabag: from celibacy, religion and sexual fluidity to the relationship between feminism and breast size, and of course the ‘Hot Priest’. Plus insight into the characters from Killing Eve, behind the scenes working on the new Bond film and how friends can be the greatest love story of your life. After the first season of Fleabag aired on the BBC in 2016, Phoebe brought us more comple...
Trouser Suits, Family Secrets, Bishop Cherry Vann
February 20, 2020 11:53 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBThe trouser suit: powerful in its own right or just a copy-cat of a man's? The fashion historian, Lydia Edwards, has a new book out called How to Read a Suit. She discusses when they became fashionable for women and if we'll still be wearing them in the future. We talk to Cherry Vann, the new Bishop of Monmouth. She's the first openly gay woman bishop in the UK, as well as the first bishop - male or female - to be in a civil partnership. She officially became bishop this month but just befo...
Family Secrets: Sarah and a secret revealed by a DNA test
February 19, 2020 13:14 - 42 minutes - 39 MBSue Black, Women’s Equality Party candidate, joins Jenni to discuss why she has stepped down from the London mayoral race because of complications with her vaginal mesh implant. Flood warnings have been issued across the UK from Doncaster to Wales and more flooding is expected. Hundreds of properties have been affected and families evacuated. How are people on the ground coping? And what are communities doing to help each other? We hear from two women in Wales - Vicki Plumber Leclerc, who’s ...
Parenting: How do you cope with fear of vomiting?
February 19, 2020 09:51 - 10 minutes - 9.87 MBDoes your fear of vomiting make parenting a challenge? Emetophobia, a fear of vomiting, is a relatively common but under-researched psychological disorder that mostly affects women. We speak with Lucy Burton, who’s been coping with emetophobia for most of her life, and is the mother of two young children. And Professor David Veale, a consultant psychiatrist at Maudsley hospital, which has a specialist centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma.
Daisy May Cooper, Self-defence in schools, Fear of vomiting, The High Table
February 18, 2020 12:16 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBDaisy May Cooper is one half of the sibling duo behind award winning BBC Three comedy This Country which returned for its third and final season on Monday. Daisy plays Kerry Mucklowe alongside her brother Charlie as ‘Kurtan’, two twenty-something cousins who are stuck in their tiny Cotswold village. Their lives revolve around local scarecrow competitions, terrorising neighbours and football training with the friendly local vicar. Daisy joins Jane to discuss the new series, accepting a BAFTA w...
Choreographer Cathy Marston & 'The Cellist', her new ballet inspired by Jacqueline du Pre
February 17, 2020 12:19 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBA new ballet 'The Cellist' opens tonight at the Royal Opera House in London. It’s inspired by the life and work of the British cellist, Jacqueline du Pré. It portrays the highs and lows of the virtuoso’s life after she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, aged 28. Its choreographer, Cathy Marston, talks to Jane Garvey about why it was such a personal project for her. Journalist and novelist, Joan Smith discusses the death of Caroline Flack, the CPS decision to prosecute her, and what imp...
Anya Taylor-Joy on playing Emma. Dirty Mother Pukka on where's my happy ending? Plus A Curious History of Sex
February 15, 2020 16:59 - 56 minutes - 52 MBEmma is one of the most adapted books by Jane Austen. It returns to the big screen this week. We hear from the director Autumn De Wilde and Anya Taylor-Joy who plays Emma. Yvette Cooper the Labour MP talks about the increasing number of violent threats being made to her and other MP’s. She tells us why she wants political parties to draw up a new joint code of conduct against intimidation. Anna Whitehouse and Matt Farquharson the duo behind the comedy podcast Dirty Mother Pukka discuss the...
Chivalry, Sex, 90s Teenagers
February 14, 2020 12:07 - 46 minutes - 42.1 MBIs chivalry dead? What is chivalry these days? Is it picking up the bill and opening a door? Is it just up to men or should women be chivalrous too? Podcaster and writer Tolly Shoneye talks about it with Amanda who's dating now. “To say that humans have overthought sex is something of an understatement.” That's according to Dr Kate Lister, a university lecturer who set up the Whore of Yore project in 2015. It tried to start a conversation about the history of sex. Her latest book is called...
Casting directors, the Equal Pay Act at 50, Shohreh Bayat
February 13, 2020 12:20 - 45 minutes - 42 MBThis is the first year Bafta has included a casting category, but still none exists within the Oscars. Jenni speaks to two casting directors, who have just won awards from the Casting Directors Guild for their work: Lauren Evans, for the first series of Sex Education and Isabella Odoffin, for Small Island on stage last year at the National Theatre in London. Why has the role of casting been so undervalued? Shohreh Bayat is a chess adjudicator. Last month she was working in Shanghai and photo...
Anya Taylor-Joy: the latest actor to take on the role of Emma
February 12, 2020 11:58 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBEmma is one of Jane Austen’s most adapted books. It returns to the big screen this Friday. The new film is directed by Autumn De Wilde and stars Anya Taylor-Joy in the title role. Why's the story still so relevant today? After a recent discussion on ‘period power’ and the importance of getting to know your own menstrual cycle, listener Dearbhla McKeating got in touch. She doesn't have a monthly bleed and wanted to discuss the impact it has n your life. She joins Jenni alongside Consu...
HRT shortages, Asylum-seeking women and destitution, Long-term relationships
February 11, 2020 12:36 - 51 minutes - 47 MBLast week we discussed the shortages of menopause treatment drug HRT, which began in late 2018. This week, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists have said they are ‘very concerned’ about women buying HRT products from unregulated online sites. Some sites were found to be selling products at four times the NHS price. Dr Sarah Jarvis, clinical director of patientacess.com, offers advice to HRT users in light of the shortages. Anna Whitehouse and Matt Farquharson are the duo be...
Loneliness – the last taboo?
February 10, 2020 12:11 - 52 minutes - 48 MBEveryone will know someone who has been lonely. The vast majority of us will feel this way at some point in our lives. More and more of us are happy to speak out about depression but why is there still such stigma associated to talking about loneliness? Does it make us too vulnerable? We often hear about the old being lonely – but what about the young and middle aged? It isn’t considered a mental health condition but should it be? What impact does it actually have on our wellbeing? And what ...
Anorexia, Rugby, Narcissism
February 08, 2020 17:00 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBWe speak to Hannah Pearson who feels she's not getting the support she needs with her anorexia and bulimia. She’s been told she has to wait 18 months for an assessment because currently she's described as a "healthy weight". After Hannah, Dr Agnes Ayton, chair of the Eating Disorder Facility of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, describes some of the challenges when trying to get medical help. Catherine Spencer was captain of the England women’s rugby team from 2007 to 2010. She's now retir...
Frankie Bridge, Women's Liberation 2020, 'The Gift'
February 07, 2020 12:10 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBFrankie Bridge is best known as one fifth of 'The Saturdays' and outside of music has established herself as a TV presenter & digital influencer. She became a Mind ambassador after opening up about her experiences of anxiety, depression and panic attacks, after her hospitalisation in May 2012. Having initially dealt with these issues in silence, she now sees that asking for help can save your life. She talks to Jane about her new book OPEN which features practical guidance and advice from the...
Parenting: The role of fathers on maternity wards
February 06, 2020 12:02 - 15 minutes - 14 MBIn January, midwives at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary complained that expectant dads were treating maternity wards ‘like a hotel’. Issues ranged from dads sharing beds with new mums, ordering takeaway food and making other new mothers embarrassed about breastfeeding. But as NHS policy states that maternity services should be ‘mother-focussed and family-centred’, should more be being done to welcome fathers onto wards? Jenni speaks to Dr Jeremy Davies from the Fatherhood Institute, NHS midwife...
Should more be being done to welcome fathers onto maternity wards?
February 06, 2020 11:33 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBLast month, midwives at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary complained that expectant dads were treating maternity wards ‘like a hotel’. Issues ranged from dads sharing beds with new mums, ordering takeaway food and making other new mothers embarrassed about breastfeeding. But as NHS policy states that maternity services should be ‘mother-focussed and family-centred’, should more be being done to welcome fathers onto wards? The UK government is chartering a final flight to bring British nationals...
Modern domestic service; Mud and Mascara in women's rugby; Teenage subcultures
February 05, 2020 12:14 - 43 minutes - 39.5 MBRight now, there are thousands of people working hard in other people’s homes to keep them running smoothly. But what’s it like working in domestic service in modern Britain? Juliet Adame and Dawn Nickless talk about their experiences of the relationship between employer and employed, and the extent to which class still plays a role in people’s attitudes towards domestic workers. Jenni also speaks to Dr Lucy Delap from the University of Cambridge about how much the life of a cleaner, nanny an...
Anorexia, Iowa Democrats, Churchill's Cook
February 04, 2020 12:27 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBWe speak to Hannah Pearson who's 25 and has anorexia and bulimia. She recently asked for help from a specialist NHS eating disorder service close to where she lives but because she isn’t considered underweight enough she’s been told she has to wait 18 months. We hear from Hannah as well as Agnes Ayton from the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Last night, Americans living in Iowa had their say on who they think is the best Democrat candidate to beat Donald Trump. Women candidates include E...
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone, Narcissistic Abuse, Huntington's Disease
February 03, 2020 12:41 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MBThe UK left the European Union on Friday night – so what can women expect from British politics. There have been weeks of speculation about a February reshuffle – we discuss the women who will win and lose. And what of the women among the voters who the Prime Minister has often said “lent” him their votes? Jane talks to Helen Lewis, staff writer for the Atlantic and to Anne McElvoy, senior editor at The Economist about how women’s interests will figure in post-Brexit politics. Last Wedne...
The double discrimination faced by black parents with autistic children
February 01, 2020 17:00 - 56 minutes - 52 MBThe double discrimination faced by black parents with autistic children. Damaging relationships - why do we so often repeat the same patterns of behaviour? Forestry England's writer in residence. Plus Marion Dunn who took up boxing for fitness in her 50's. The campaign to reform the disclosure of criminal records. And Gwyneth Paltrow and her Goop Lab - why are so many of us so keen on advice and products that are not backed up by any scientific research? Producer Olivia Cope Editor Beverl...
Rachel Clarke, DBS Checks, Home Schooling
January 31, 2020 11:39 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBRachel Clarke is a doctor working at a hospice. She’s a palliative care doctor and says the “currency of a hospice is kindness”. She's talking about sweet and thoughtful gestures that make a difference to dying patients and their loved ones. She’s also a great believer in talking to patients and relatives about how death comes, and says the reality of it is normally not as awful as we fear. Sixty thousand children stay at home for their education and do very well. They're taught by dedi...
Breaking damaging relationship patterns, 50 years since the first women's liberation conference
January 30, 2020 12:13 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBNext month sees the fiftieth anniversary of the first Women’s Liberation conference at Ruskin College, Oxford. The event produced four key demands for equal pay, equal education and job opportunities, free contraception and abortion on demand, and 24-hour nurseries – and it is widely seen as a defining moment in the development of Second Wave Feminism. Jenni discusses its significance and legacy with the organiser of the 1970 meeting, Sally Alexander and with the historian Selina Todd. In pa...
Parenting: The 'double discrimination' facing black children with Autism
January 29, 2020 12:33 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MBGetting the right information and support to raise a child with autism can be difficult for any parent. But if the child is from an ethnic background, research has shown that this can act as a 'double discrimination'. Why is this the case? We hear from Pam Aculey whose oldest son has autism and now has produced a series of children's picture books. And Venessa Bobb who has two children with the condition and now runs her own charity - A 2nd Voice - set up to help families like hers.
Breaking patterns in relationships. Why nursing may be undervalued. Raising a child with autism from an ethnic background.
January 29, 2020 11:44 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBOver the past few weeks we've been hearing women’s personal experiences about their relationships and why things went wrong. Today it's the turn of a woman we're calling " Sadie". Nurses are under-valued across the UK because of an old-fashioned view that caring for others is a ‘feminine characteristic’. That’s according to a new study, commissioned by the Royal College of Nursing. Jenni talks to Dr Anne Humbert one of the authors of the report and to Dame Donna Kinnair Chief Exec and Gen...
Goop Lab and the psychology of wellness; Tolson judgement; French #MeToo; Emma Jane Unsworth
January 28, 2020 13:14 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBLast Friday, Gwyneth Paltrow launched her new TV series ‘Goop Lab’ on Netflix. It explores everything from reducing your biological age to having the best female orgasms and healing yourself with energy. But where’s the line between fact and fiction when it comes to wellness? What draws people in to trying the vast and bizarre range of creams and contraptions on offer? And what is it about our psychology that means it rarely matters whether the claims are backed up by science? Jane is joined ...
Edith Eger, Breaking Relationship Patterns, Taking up Boxing at Fifty
January 27, 2020 15:10 - 48 minutes - 44 MBSeventy five years ago today Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz Birkenau. January 27th is Holocaust Remembrance day. Edith Eger is a psychologist from Hungary. She was 16, an enthusiastic dancer and gymnast, when she was taken with her family to Auschwitz. She’s now 92. In 2018 she published a memoir about her experiences and how they shaped her life, it’s called “The Choice”. Tina Dahaley asked her what happened when they got to the camp in Poland: Aged fi...
Gail Porter, Modest Fashion & Female Friendships
January 25, 2020 17:00 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBGail Porter, once one of the UK’s most sought after female TV presenters, talks about her life in the documentary Being Gail Porter. From developing alopecia to suffering severe mental health problems and ending up homeless. As the Office for National Statistics releases new employment figures – we look at what sorts of jobs women are losing and what's being done to save them, with the Economist Vicky Pryce and the TUC’s Head of Economics Kate Bell. As well-known high street fashion bran...