08/10/2026
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
8 Okt 57min
Woman's Hour celebrates 80 years from the Glasgow Women's Library
Launching the theme of our 80th birthday year: "Use Your Voice", we celebrate live from the Glasgow Women's Library in Scotland, the sole accredited museum of women’s history in the UK.Nuala McGovern ...
7 Okt 57min
French student protests; Elizabeth Day and Sarah Solemani on TV drama The Party; could some adoptions be avoided?
Hundreds of schools in France have closed after clashes between police and student protestors. Chloe Quesnel is a high school teacher in Nice in France. She's been watching her students take to the s...
6 Okt 57min
The Lost Children of Tuam, Ashley James on incontinence, Kemistry
Monica Dolan is starring in a new film, The Lost Children of Tuam, co-produced by Liam Neeson. In it, she plays the extraordinary amateur historian, Catherine Corless, whose relentless pursuit of the ...
5 Okt 56min
Weekend Woman's Hour: School uniforms in porn, The Farmer's Wife, 'Empty nesters'
A group of school children have set up a petition calling on the government to ban the use of school uniforms in porn. They say they want to abolish the sexualisation of children through the inappropr...
3 Okt 56min
Protests in Delhi, Retatrutide, The Farmer's Wife, Baby Loss
Multiple protests have been taking place in Delhi over the past week. Hundreds of women have come together in India's capital to protest against a series of sexual assaults - most recently the alleg...
2 Okt 57min
Cornell University rape investigation, Tributes to Esther Rantzen, Sunbeds
New York state prosecutors say they will reopen a criminal inquiry into the alleged rape of a woman at Cornell University in 2024. The woman, referred to in court documents as Jane Doe, alleges in her...
1 Okt 57min
The Women's Art Collection at 40; school uniforms in porn; the history of widowhood
The Prime Minister Andy Burnham has announced an end to the triple lock for the state pension from 2030, and it’s thought that women could be most affected by the proposed changes. Kylie Pentalow is ...
30 Sep 57min
