Listener Week: Seatbelts and busts, Recruitment and AI, Married but living apart
To kick this week off, we heard from listener Melanie Williams. Melanie is forever having to adjust her seatbelt because of her bust size. She worries if she were to be in an accident she would end up...
4 Aug 202557min
Weekend Woman’s Hour: Lionesses' win & Diane Bronze, Child sex abuse gangs, Michelle Collins, Sara Pascoe, Nicola Benedetti
The Lionesses have made history by becoming the first England football squad to win a major trophy on foreign soil, they successfully defended their European title in Basel last night. The match went ...
2 Aug 202552min
Hattie Williams, Trump's tariffs, Playwright Shaan Sahota
Hattie Williams lost her mother when she was 18 years old leaving her feeling anchorless and needing to embark on a self-exploratory journey to recover some stability. When she experienced motherhood,...
1 Aug 202557min
Michelle Collins, Women's Golf, Access to work, Girls Like You
The Women’s Open begins at Royal Porthcawl on the south coast of Wales where over the next four days the biggest names in women's golf will compete to win the fifth and final major of the year. Datshi...
31 Juli 202554min
Lionesses' Euros win, Nicola Benedetti
The Lionesses have made history by becoming the first England football squad to win a major trophy on foreign soil, they successfully defended their European title in Basel last night. The match went ...
30 Juli 202553min
Child sex abuse gangs, Advice overwhelm, Football feminist Karen Dobres
The BBC has found that five women who were exploited by so-called grooming gangs in Rotherham as children say they were also abused by police officers in the town at the time. One woman says she was r...
30 Juli 202557min
Lynda La Plante, Women's Rugby World Cup, Sara Pascoe
Lynda La Plante joins Clare McDonnell to discuss her latest novel, The Scene of the Crime, which follows CSI Jessica Russell and her team as they investigate a high-profile robbery and assault in East...
29 Juli 202557min
Weekend Woman’s Hour: Baroness Margaret Hodge, Dame Imelda Staunton and Bessie Carter, Statues of women
Baroness Margaret Hodge joined Nuala McGovern to talk about why she thinks routine mammograms should be extended to women over 70. The former Labour MP was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 8...
29 Juli 202528min
