Nikki Lilly, Debt, Grief over a pet, Hayley Squires
The number of abortions recorded in England and Wales has reached a record high, according to the latest government figures from the Department of Health. There were 277,970 abortions in 2023, the hig...
16 Jan 57min
Smart phones and tracking children, The Traitors, Regulating Botox
To track or not to track? Now that technology on our phones makes it so easy, many parents are tracking their children’s whereabouts. If children don’t have a smart phone, many people use a GPS trac...
15 Jan 57min
Women protesting in Iran, Drugs and teens, Subpar relationships, Midwives and burnout
Reports say that the number of people killed in Iran after 18 days of protests is over 2000. We hear about the women on death row who are facing execution as there are fears of quick reprisals from th...
14 Jan 57min
Mia McKenna-Bruce, Teens and misinformation, Older women and publishing
Miss Marple and Poirot have been household names for decades but now one of Agatha Christie’s lesser-known sleuths – Lady Eileen ‘Bundle’ Brent - is finally getting her time in the spotlight. The fear...
13 Jan 57min
Young kids and screen time, Adoption Act centenary, The Ayoub Sisters
Parents of under-fives in England are to be offered official advice on how long their children should spend watching TV or looking at computer screens. It comes as government research shows about 98% ...
12 Jan 53min
Weekend Woman's Hour: Going It Alone, Chloé Zhou, Breast screening
In our new series Going it Alone we hear from women about their experiences of having a child without a partner. These are women who are having donor conceived children, which is different to single m...
10 Jan 56min
Women in Iran, Chloé Zhao, the Bar Council, Lesley Sharp
Iran has been in the news, with protests building over the last 13 days. Commentators say that what started as a protest about the economy has now turned into a call for regime change, and for women'...
9 Jan 57min
Breast screening, MET police vetting, Female punk bands
A chemotherapy nurse is so concerned about the rates of breast cancer she has seen in women under 50 that she's started a parliamentary petition to get the age of mammograms reduced to 40 and for them...
8 Jan 56min
