Woman's Hour
1,771 episodes - English - Latest episode: 22 days ago - ★★★★ - 251 ratingsWomen's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
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Anne Longfield, children's commissioner for England; Family secrets; Pelvic floor
January 24, 2019 12:20 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MBAre children missing out? The National Audit Office and the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health have raised concerns about services for children this week. Anne Longfield, Children's Commissioner for England joins us to discuss what she thinks is happening. We hear about why incontinence affects fifty per cent of women during their lives and what they can do to improve their pelvic floor. With Burn's Night tomorrow, was Robert Burns an early feminist or an old sex pest? - we debate. ...
Freida Pinto in Love Sonia
January 23, 2019 12:39 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBInspired by real life events, a new film ‘Love Sonia’ is the story of a young girl from a small village in India who finds herself caught up in the global sex trafficking industry. One of the stars of the film is Freida Pinto. She joins Jenni to discuss. The first leader of the Women’s Equality Party is standing down. Sophie Walker has been doing the job since 2015. In 2017 her party published a manifesto full of feminist policies from which she openly invited all the mainstream parties to ...
The Favourite, Abortion in Ireland, Mid Winter
December 20, 2018 11:58 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBNew film ‘The Favourite’ set in 18th century England features a frail and irascible Queen Anne played by Olivia Coleman whose attention and affection is being sought by her political adviser Lady Sarah Churchill (Duchess of Marlborough) and ruthless chambermaid Abigail. It is a story of sexual politics and power games, starring Olivia Coleman, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone. Jenni talks to screenwriter Deborah Davis. Abortion will be legal in the Republic of Ireland from the first day of Janua...
Sex in long-term relationships
November 03, 2017 11:01 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBPsychotherapist Esther Perel wrote her first book Mating in Captivity ten years ago. Her second book The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity has just been published. She joins Jenni to hear from Woman's Hour listeners about the challenges they face keeping the sexual spark alive in a long-term relationship and to give advice based on 20 years experience of talking to couples . Mismatched libidos, pain during intercourse, getting into a routine and what happens to desire when kids come a...
Late Night Woman's Hour: Work and Rest
October 25, 2017 16:00 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBLauren and guests reflect on how we can find the right balance between work and rest. Often presented as opposites, our attitudes to work and rest are changing under the influence of a range of technological and social forces. Many people work from home, but how many of us also home from work? And how do we maintain the boundaries between the two when it's so easy to check your work email at midnight? Lauren's guests this month are: Emma Gannon: writer, blogger, and founder of the podcas...
Late Night Woman's Hour: Women in Tech
September 26, 2017 16:00 - 1 hour - 56 MBLauren Laverne talks to technology evangelist Dr Sue Black, Professor of New Technologies at Goldsmiths University Sarah Kember, and games scriptwriter Rhianna Pratchett about the challenges and opportunities currently facing women working in technology, and about the ways in which new technologies cater to women or fail to do so. Recorded with an audience at the British Science Festival in Brighton. Presenter: Lauren Laverne Producer: Laura Thomas.
Late Night Woman's Hour: Self-Esteem
August 23, 2017 14:00 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MBWhat's the secret to healthy levels of self-esteem? And can we ever have too much?
Late Night Woman's Hour: Travel & Adventure
June 30, 2017 14:00 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBWomen have always dreamed of escaping their ordinary lives - but it's only in recent history that travel has become a legitimate opportunity to do so - and then only for some. Lauren discusses the pleasures and pitfalls of wanderlust, with some very well-travelled women... LOIS PRYCE has travelled the world alone on her motorbike. Named one of the greatest female travellers by the Daily Telegraph she has written a number of books about her life as - her word - and adventuress. RANA RAHIMP...
Late Night Woman's Hour: Ageing
May 25, 2017 17:00 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MB"What do you mean I'm going to sag? Sag WHERE?" These days the world seems full of well-intentioned cat-poster sentiment designed to cheer us up over the passage of time -You're only as young as you feel, 70 is the new 40 - but for women in particular, advancing age can mean a sense of panic. Lauren invites writer and broadcaster Miranda Sawyer, cultural historian Helen Small, founder of the Ruby & Millie makeup range Ruby Hammer and writer and Guardian columnist Michele Hanson to provide...
Late Night Woman's Hour: Breakups
April 28, 2017 17:18 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBEmma Barnett and guests Sali Hughes, Philippa Perry and Daisy Buchanan discuss break-ups.
Late Night Woman's Hour: Viv Albertine
March 30, 2017 16:00 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBLauren Laverne interviews Viv Albertine at the Free Thinking festival for the first edition of BBC Radio 4's Late Night Woman's Hour to be recorded in front of an audience. Writer and film maker Albertine reflects on being the guitarist in pioneering all-female punk band The Slits, whose 1979 album Cut is frequently voted one of the most influential albums of all time. But - as she outlines in her autobiography Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys - she hasn't al...
Late Night Woman's Hour: Instinct
February 22, 2017 14:04 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MB"The hackles on the back of my neck stand up and the orange warning signs come on." You know the feeling. It's the emotional equivalent of seeing something out of the corner of your eye. So fleeting you're not sure it's real. She's lying, it says. Or maybe, don't call him back. Or perhaps just, something's not right. So do you trust it, this feeling, or brush it aside? And if you do trust it, what do you call it? Instinct or intuition? Sixth sense? Your bulls**t detector? Whatever name you...
Family Drug and Alcohol Courts, Sandi Toksvig, Allison Schroeder
February 13, 2017 13:56 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBWe discuss the future of Family Drug and Alcohol Courts in the UK. They try and find solutions for parents who have addictions and are at risk of losing their children. But despite some success it seems funding for the scheme is under threat. Jane is joined by Sophie Kershaw, Co-Director of the Family Drug and Alcohol National Unit, and Rosie, a mother who's managed to keep her third child with her because of these courts, despite losing two already. We speak to Allison Schroeder, screenwrit...
Late Night Woman's Hour
December 23, 2016 10:00 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBLauren Laverne discusses the delights and perils of parties with seasoned partygoers Fran Cutler, Brigid Keenan, Bryony Gordon and Zing Tsjeng. Fran Cutler is the queen of party organisers, and thinks nothing of dialling Cher's number to ask her to perform at one of her legendary 'dos. Writer Bryony Gordon is a former 3am girl whose idea of a good night out is a party for two in her back garden with her husband. Editor of UK Broadly, Zing Tsjeng, is no stranger to the coolest parties in tow...
Late Night Woman's Hour
November 24, 2016 16:50 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBShe's your BFF, your Bestie. Thelma to your Louise, or Eddie to your Patsy. This month on Late Night Woman's Hour, Lauren Laverne discusses female friendship, its rules, strengths and weaknesses, and how it changes over time, with psychologist Terri Apter, novelist Lucy Caldwell, Into Film journalist Ceyda Uzun and Julie-Ann Richards and Sarah Adams-Greener, two Woman's Hour listeners who have been friends since they were three. This programme is available in two versions. The long version i...
Late Night Woman's Hour: Home
October 27, 2016 15:00 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBLauren Laverne and guests discuss home. What does home mean to you? Is domesticity a joy or a drudgery? And why has the Scandinavian art of Hygge become the word of the winter? Is it genius marketing or emotional need? Joining Lauren are: Trine Hahnemann, Chef and author of 'Scandinavian Comfort Food - Embracing the Arts of Hygge'. Susie Orbach, psychotherapist and author. Dr Rachel Hurdley, Research Fellow in the School of Social Science at Cardiff University Helen Zaltzman, podcaster an...
Late Night Woman's Hour: Public Space
September 29, 2016 16:03 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBWhere does private space for women end and public space begin? Where does a woman's right to wear, or walk, or say, what and where she wants become different to men's - on the beach? On the bus? Online? Joining Lauren Laverne to discuss: Shelina Janmohamed, author of Generation M Helen Lewis, Deputy Editor of the New Statesman Becca Bunce of the disabled women's collective Sisters of Frida and co-director of the I C CHANGE campaign Bridget Minamore journalist This programme is available ...
Late Night Woman's Hour: Sport
August 25, 2016 15:57 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBFollowing the massive success of female athletes on Team GB in the Rio Olympics, Lauren Laverne discusses women in sport with: Maggie Alphonsi, World Cup-winning rugby player and sports commentator and pundit Cherrelle Brown, champion boxer and personal trainer Anna Kessel, sports writer and author of Eat Sweat Play Jean Williams, Professor of the History and Culture of Sport at DeMontfort University Producer: Luke Mulhall.
Late Night Woman's Hour: Masturbation
June 23, 2016 13:00 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBLauren Laverne and guests discuss women and masturbation - is it still a taboo? Her guests this month are: Emily Yates, accessibility consultant and sex educator with the charity Enhance the UK. Irma Kurtz, who has been the agony aunt for Cosmopolitan Magazine since 1970. Ky Hoyle, the founder and Managing Director of the Sh! Women's Erotic Emporium. Stephanie Theobald, a writer whose most recent book Sex Drive is a memoir of her drive across America in search of her lost libido. Produ...
Late Night Woman's Hour
May 26, 2016 14:43 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MBLauren Laverne and guests discuss the origins and pitfalls of stereotypes of women. With Joanne Harris, best-selling author of Chocolat who has written about myth and fairy tales. Lisa Mckenzie, a sociologist at the London School of Economics, who has explored portrayals of working class women Emma Dabiri, teaching fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, who has studied what people mean by the term 'mixed-race' in Britain today. Jane Cunningham, founder of advertis...
Late Night Woman's Hour - Clothes
April 28, 2016 12:11 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBFrom the shock value of punk to Muslim modesty codes, via clothes as art and how police officers personalize their uniforms, Lauren Laverne and guests discuss what we wear and what it means. With punk pioneer Jordan, fashion designer Barjis Chohan, philosopher Shahidha Bari, and former police officer and blogger Ellie Bloggs Producer: Luke Mulhall.