Weekend Woman's Hour - Carla Bruni, Working from Home, HIV and Bame women
We have music from the former supermodel Carla Bruni who tells us about her new album.We hear from the Conservative MP Laura Trott who is trying to get a law passed to stop under 18s accessing filler ...
17 Okt 202056min
Dolly Alderton; Rape convictions - Katie's story; How to work from home
Dolly Alderton joins Jane to talk about her first novel Ghosts. Her protagonist Nina Dean is dealing with a lot. She’s trying to make it as a food writer and finally has a flat of her own. Her dad is...
16 Okt 202054min
Sculptor Susie MacMurray, Fillers, ADHD Late Diagnosis and Women and Forgiveness
A striking new female figure can be seen in Kings’ Place in London, and online from this week. Medusa is a tall, headless woman whose body turns into snakes made of chainmail. For her creator, Manches...
15 Okt 202051min
Carla Bruni on her new album; Covid and working class women; Author Onjali Rauf; The English GCSE Syllabus
Carla Bruni's new album is described as "a wholehearted embracing of her true self." She talks to Sangita about the inspiration behind it and life under lockdown. The impact of Covid-19 on working cl...
14 Okt 202044min
Women in business and three tier lockdown. Working as a midwife. Patricia Devlin. Children's play in hospitals.
As the new three tier Covid lock down system comes into force in England we talk to some of the businesses which’re now facing stricter restrictions. Hannah Butler who runs the Victoria Hotel in the ...
13 Okt 202045min
Pregnant women and the flu jab; HIV and BAME women; Autumn fashion trends; Debra Whittingham
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and Royal College of Midwives are urging all pregnant women to take up the offer of a free flu vaccination this winter to protect themselves and t...
12 Okt 202044min
Power List judges - Living a greener life, Women and epilepsy, Identity politics and feminism, Essex girls
Around 300,000 women have epilepsy in the UK. Epilepsy Research UK say that hormones can affect epilepsy, and drugs used to control it need to be very carefully balanced with medication that women tak...
10 Okt 202056min
Hook ups, Identity Politics & Feminism, Surviving Grooming Gang in Rotherham
Jane Garvey talks to a woman who survived being groomed by a gang in Rotherham, also to Yasmin Alibhai Brown and Ruby Hamad about identity politics and feminism and we hear from the older women who en...
9 Okt 202050min
