Woman's Hour Podcast
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
Episodes to download
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Woman's Hour special: How is porn shaping our sex lives and relationships?
Fri 3 May 2024
A chance to catch up with Woman's Hour's special series about porn.
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Lawyer Harriet Wistrich, Chef Asma Khan, ACL injuries and women
Thu 2 May 2024
Lawyer Harriet Wistrich on her book about women and the justice system, Sister in Law.
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Co-parenting, Homelessness and women, Dr Jessica Taylor
Wed 1 May 2024
What is it really like to be a co-parent? Two mothers give their take.
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Sex and choking, Online Abuse and work, Plastic pollution
Tue 30 Apr 2024
Why are more young people including choking as part of their sex lives?
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Boys, Lyra McKee, Perinatal suicide, South African elections
Mon 29 Apr 2024
We hear teenage boys' thoughts about masculinity, consent and friendship.
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Weekend Woman’s Hour: Zeinab Badawi, Fisherman Ashley Mullenger, Stalking, Singing and periods
Sat 27 Apr 2024
Singing and periods - how hormones effect your voice.
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Weinstein conviction overturned, Fishing, Comeuppance, Ballet pumps
Fri 26 Apr 2024
Backlash against overturning of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction.
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BRCA1, Open relationships, Wrongly Accused: The Annette Hewins Story
Thu 25 Apr 2024
Beaux Harris on preventative treatment after losing family to the gene mutation BRCA1.
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Zeinab Badawi, Singing and periods, How is the debate over abortion shaping the US election?
Wed 24 Apr 2024
Zeinab Badawi on her book, An African History of Africa, how do periods affect singing?
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Kitty Ruskin's year of casual sex, The Girls of Slender Means, ARFID
Tue 23 Apr 2024
A journalist writes about her experience of setting out to have no-strings attached sex.
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Peres Jepchirchir, Rhianon Bragg and stalking, Nitazenes, Tortured poets
Mon 22 Apr 2024
We hear from Peres Jepchirchir about breaking the women’s-only marathon world record time.
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Woman's Hour special: Breaking The Cycle
Sun 21 Apr 2024
A chance to catch up with Woman's Hour's special series, Breaking The Cycle.
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Ruth Wilson, Young women and voting, Jing Lusi
Sat 20 Apr 2024
Ruth Wilson on why she's running this year's London Marathon.
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Solitude, Apprentice winner Rachel Woolford, Personal space, Kids and smartphones
Fri 19 Apr 2024
The science and power of being alone.
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Ruth Wilson, periods and concussion, Ashley Storrie on Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú comedy Dinosaur, sewing for mental health
Thu 18 Apr 2024
Ruth Wilson on why she’s running the London Marathon for an Alzheimer’s charity.
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Cricketer Nat Sciver-Brunt, Smacking, Hypochondria, Police drama Blue Lights, Soul Sisters Pakistan
Wed 17 Apr 2024
Nat Sciver-Brunt honored as Wisden's leading cricketer in the world.
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Hollywood film producer Deborah Snyder, Young women and voting, Machinal star Rosie Sheehy
Tue 16 Apr 2024
The blockbuster movie producer on her new project and working with husband Zack Snyder.
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Jing Lusi, Fatal stabbings in Sydney, Australia, Declaration of the Rights of the Child
Mon 15 Apr 2024
Jing Lusi, fatal stabbings in Sydney, Australia, Declaration of the Rights of the Child.
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Juliet open letter, Vogue’s Chioma Nnadi, Female Psychopath
Sat 13 Apr 2024
Why 883 creatives have signed an open letter in support of actor Francesca Amewudah-Rivers
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Marian Keyes, Juliet open letter, Swiss climate victory
Fri 12 Apr 2024
Irish author Marian Keyes talks about her latest page turner, My Favourite Mistake.
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Gloria Steinem at 90, Rebecca Ferguson, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
Thu 11 Apr 2024
The legendary American feminist on what the women's movement still needs to do
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The Cass Review, Back to Black, Female Psychopath
Wed 10 Apr 2024
Reaction to the Cass Review which calls for changes to gender services for children
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Vogue's Chioma Nnadi, Life in a women’s refuge, Parents jailed after son’s mass shooting
Tue 9 Apr 2024
Emma Barnett speaks to Chioma Nnadi, the new editor of British Vogue.
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Westminster honeytrap scam, What we can learn from toddlers, Saudi Arabia
Mon 8 Apr 2024
Dame Andrea Jenkyns has become the first woman to speak about being a victim of the scam.
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Pregnancy discrimination, Girls State and Carly Pearce
Sat 6 Apr 2024
Nicola Hinds on winning her ‘David and Goliath’ case against a national company.
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Rwanda genocide, Bowie's hairdresser, womanhood during Ramadan
Fri 5 Apr 2024
The Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú journalist who returned to Rwanda for the first time since fleeing the genocide.
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Pregnancy discrimination, Prue Leith, Femcels, Social workers on screen
Thu 4 Apr 2024
Nicola Hinds has won her 'David and Goliath' case against a national company.
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Girls State, Author Holly Gramazio, First female prime minister of the DRC
Wed 3 Apr 2024
Girls State - the US project that spotlights the young female leaders of tomorrow
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Scotland's hate crime law, Motherhood and art, Actor Rachael Stirling
Tue 2 Apr 2024
Reaction to Scotland's new hate crime law.
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Women in Country Music
Mon 1 Apr 2024
From Beyoncé to Shania Twain, women are making country cool again.
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