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Woman's Hour
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.Listen to our new series of conversations, The Woman's Hour Guide to Life, on BBC Sounds - your toolkit for the juggle, struggle and everything in between: www.bbc.co.uk/guidetolife
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10/04/2026
Police in the Netherlands have taken the unusual step of launching a campaign on social media to track down women and girls who were blackmailed into...
Forced adoption, Queen Elizabeth II's outfits exhibition, Indigo Reign
The Church of England is planning to issue an apology for its role in forced adoption, according to a draft seen by the BBC. During the 1950s, 60s a...
08/04/2026
Student Jodie Morrow talks to Nuala McGovern about her ordeal of being arrested after her stalker falsely accused her of stalking him. He has now been...
Children and happiness, Miscarriage leave, Extramarital pairings
Women in Northern Ireland who have had a miscarriage - along with their partners - will now be entitled to two weeks paid leave. The government is pl...
Women and their relationships with light
Easter Monday in the Christian calendar means Christ is risen and symbolises a shift from darkness and death to life, hope and light. We’re also in th...
Childhood epilepsy, Pre-loved fashion, Mary Magdalene music, Women only societies
Childhood epilepsy, medical treatment, and the power of a mother and son working together. Filmmaker Emma Matthews and her son Louis Petit have create...
Artemis II, Meg Jones, 'Battlefield techniques abuse'
Nasa's Artemis II spacecraft has blasted off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida and is now orbiting the Earth in the first crewed mission to the...
Women in Iran, Miscarriage cradle, Zoom bombing
The week marks one month since the United States and Israel attacked Iran. We take a look at the impact the resulting war has had on the women and chi...
31/03/2026
The music in this broadcast has been removed from this podcast for rights reasons.
The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland said last week t...
Moon mission, Miscarriages, Romania's Eurovision entry
Christina Koch is ready to make history. She is one of the four astronauts of Artemis 2 which is set to head around the Moon in the next few days. Dur...
First female Archbishop of Canterbury, Elizabeth Moss and Kate Mara, Polyamory
Dame Sarah Mullally is installed as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church’s 1,400‑year history. What unique skills and priorities wi...
Meta and Google trial, The Pitt actor Katherine LaNasa, Polyamory
A young woman in the US has successfully sued Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp - and Google, owner of YouTube, over her child...
27/03/2026
It's OIivia Dean's world and we are all just living in it. The 27-year-old music star picked up three MOBO awards last night to add to her four Brit a...
First female Archbishop of Canterbury, Schiaparelli exhibition, Swiftynomics
Today marks a historic moment for the Church of England as Dame Sarah Mullally is installed as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church...
Naz Shah, 'Alpine divorce', Sexism at football matches
Naz Shah has been the MP for Bradford West since 2015, after a battle with George Galloway’s Respect Party, but her personal journey into politics is...
Dame Jenni Murray remembered, Elizabeth Moss and Kate Mara, Jane McDonald
NB The music in this broadcast has been removed from the podcast for rights reasons
We start today's programme with the sad news that Dame Jenni...
FIFA's women's football tournaments, Glasgow fire, Pilgrimages
New regulations state that every team in FIFA's women's football tournaments must include at least one female head coach or assistant coach.
The...
FIFA's women's football tournaments, Women in Cuba, Adoption
New regulations state that every team in FIFA's women's football tournaments must include at least one female head coach or assistant coach.
The...
Glasgow fire, Sibling relationships, Artist LR Vandy
**This programme has been edited since originally broadcast**
This month a legal case in the High Court has shed light on an industry of so-call...
18/03/2026
According to the UK Health Security Agency, five new cases of meningitis have been confirmed in Kent. Two people have died in the outbreak. Health Sec...
17/03/2026
Researchers in Australia have developed an AI tool that means a routine mammogram can also monitor your heart health. The study, published in Heart, t...
16/03/2026
It was an historic night for Ireland and for those watching in her home town of Killarney in County Kerry, as Jessie Buckley became the first Irish wo...
Leeds Maternity Review, Forgetting birthdays, the term ‘rough wooing’, Ashley Dalton MP, Maimuna Memon
The health secretary Wes Streeting has appointed senior midwife Donna Ockenden to lead a review into maternity and neonatal services at Leeds Teaching...
CPR on women, AI toys, Maimuna Memon
New figures out from Thames Valley Air Ambulance show that women are less likely than men to receive bystander CPR, with one in three female cardiac a...
Dunblane 30 years on, Catfishing, Forgetting birthdays
Ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Dunblane massacre on Friday, presenter Anita Rani speaks to three women whose lives changed for ever that day; Me...
11/03/2026
The health secretary Wes Streeting has appointed senior midwife Donna Ockenden to lead a review into maternity and neonatal services at Leeds Teaching...
Rape investigations, Ashley Dalton MP, Winter Paralympics, Comic novel Motherfaker
The government’s independent advisor on rape, Professor Katrin Hohl, is warning that despite an overhaul on how to investigate rape, there is a lack o...
09/03/2026
Iran has a new Supreme Leader, the hard-line cleric, Mojtaba Khamenei, who has succeeded his father who was killed on the first day of the US-Israeli...
Weekend Woman's Hour: Matrescence, Ramadan & the 'sandwich generation', The Traitors' Harriet Tyce
The BBC has had exclusive access to the world’s largest study scanning pregnant women’s brains. The BeMOther project is based in Spain and has found t...
Iranian diaspora, Gen Z study, Onjali Rauf
Conflict continues in the Middle East, but with near total internet blackout in Iran, there's currently very little access to information from within...
Allergy training, A Woman of Substance, Ramadan & 'sandwich generation', Model Charli Howard
Schools in England must provide allergy awareness training for all staff for the first time, under new statutory guidance announced by the Department...
Matrescence, Mexico's 'searching mothers', New novel The Night Nag
The BBC has had exclusive access to the world’s largest study scanning pregnant women’s brains. The BeMOther project is based in Spain and has found t...
Sarah Everard anniversary, The Traitors' Harriet Tyce, Geniuses
Five years ago, Sarah Everard was abducted, raped and murdered by a Metropolitan Police officer. It was the catalyst for an outpouring of grief and an...
Women in Iran, George Eliot on stage, Professor Kate Pickett
On Saturday Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed after Israel and the US launched a "massive" and ongoing attack against Iran's lea...
Weekend Woman's Hour: Tracey Emin, SEND reforms, Student midwives
A 40-year career retrospective of Dame Tracey Emin’s work has opened at the Tate Modern in London, featuring many of the artist’s most iconic pieces,...
Tracey Emin, Menstrual blood, Hannah Spencer MP
A 40-year career retrospective of Dame Tracey Emin’s work has opened at the Tate Modern in London, featuring many of the artist’s most iconic pieces,...
'Molly vs the Machines' doc, Female Afghan Ambassador, Maternity care, Cleopatra re-imagined
An interim report from Baroness Amos, who is leading a government-commissioned review into NHS maternity care in England, says maternity services are...
25/02/2026
A baby boy has become the first to be born in the UK to a mother with a womb transplant from a deceased donor. Grace Bell, who is in her 30s, delivere...
SEND reforms: A Woman's Hour and SEND in the Spotlight special
Woman's Hour in collaboration with our SEND in the Spotlight podcast brings you a special programme on the impact of the government's SEND reforms in...
Marian Keyes, SEND, Designer Tolu Coker, Student midwives
Irish author Marian Keyes has sold over 30 million copies of her books worldwide over the past three decades. From her 1995 debut Watermelon to Rachel...