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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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George Sand, SEND provision leak, Dr Punam Krishan, Divine Feminine Opera
Children with special education needs and disabilities - known as SEND - in England will have their support reviewed as they move into secondary schoo...
18/02/2026
The woman tipped to be the next head of the UK Civil Service has faced multiple bullying complaints according to reports this morning. The Times newsp...
Weekend Woman’s Hour: Kinship carers, Ashley James, Mia Brookes’s mum, impact of Ian Paterson's crimes, Charles Dickens’s women
More than 141,000 children are in kinship care in England and Wales. According to new research from the charity Kinship, 40% of kinship carers are for...
17/02/2026
In December 2024, Dominque Pelicot and 46 other men were found guilty of the aggravated rape of his wife Gisèle. Another two were found guilty of atte...
Nadiya Hussain, Actor Kate Fleetwood, 200 marathons in 200 days
It’s more than a decade since Nadiya Hussain became a household name after winning the Great British Bake Off. Since then, she’s fronted her own cooke...
13/02/2026
The Government yesterday published new guidance for schools in England on what to do when children question their gender. It says schools should not i...
Ashley James, Nancy Guthrie disappearance, Kinship carers
A story gripping headlines across the United States is the disappearance of 84‑year‑old Nancy Guthrie, the mother of NBC News Today anchor Savannah Gu...
Virginia Giuffre’s co-author, SEND reforms, impact of Ian Paterson's crimes
Clare McDonnell speaks to Amy Wallace, the co-author of Virginia Giuffre's memoir, Nobody's Girl. Amy spent two years closely working with Virginia -...
10/02/2026
Team GB snowboarder Mia Brookes gave an amazing performance last night coming fourth in the women's snowboard big air final at the Winter Olympics in...
Epstein files, Lindsey Vonn, Knife crime, Charles Dickens' women
At the end of January, the US government released new files from its investigation into the sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. The...
Weekend Woman's Hour: Undercover Police Inquiry, Foster care expansion, AI boyfriends
The ongoing Undercover Policing Inquiry started again this week. It is believed at least 50 women were duped into intimate relationships with undercov...
Sinners, AI boyfriends, Autistic girls, Abuse and Muslim women
The cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw has been nominated for an Academy Award for “Sinners," an American horror film nominated this year for a rec...
05/02/2026
New research which has just been published in the British Medical Journal, suggests that testing menstrual blood for signs of cervical cancer could be...
04/02/2026
The government has announced plans to relax fostering rules and create 10,000 new places for vulnerable children in England. Roxy and her mum Judy, fr...
Sarah Ferguson, Child free guilt, Actor Susan Wokoma, Understanding the courts
Sarah Ferguson's charity, Sarah's Trust, has announced it will close "for the foreseeable future" after new details emerged from documents released by...
02/02/2026
The ongoing Undercover Policing Inquiry starts again today, having already uncovered "appalling practices in undercover policing" over the past 50 yea...
Paris Paloma, Repair Cafes, French conjugal rights, Gynae care in Wales
Last week a report from the Welsh Health and Social Care Committee revealed that women in Wales felt that they were being failed by gynaecological can...
Weekend Woman's Hour: Pensions gender gap, Winter Olympics, Paris Paloma
There's been a stark warning to MPs about the number of women pensioners living in poverty. The House of Commons Work and Pensions committee has been...
Pensions gender gap, Rape investigations complaint, Women and AI
There's been a stark warning to MPs about the number of women pensioners living in poverty. The house of commons work and pensions committee has been...
28/01/2026
Pornhub has announced it will restrict access to its website in the UK from next week, blaming the tougher age checks which have been introduced for e...
New menopause research, Singing for wellbeing, Greenland women, Office romance
A large UK study of nearly 125,000 women has found that the menopause can cause a loss of grey matter in women's brains affecting memory and emotions,...
Yanis Varoufakis, Bonnie Langford, 'Catastrophic' waits for NHS community care, Killer in the House documentary
Tens of thousands of children in England have spent more than a year waiting for NHS community care, such as hearing services, speech and language the...
Weekend Woman's Hour: Social media ban for under 16s, Family estrangement, Denise Gough
Should the UK follow Australia in bringing in a social media ban for under 16s? Nuala McGovern discusses the issue with Hannah Ortel from the Brianna...
ADHD and women, Author Claire Lynch, Gaming for good
A study led by the University of Oxford shows a 20-fold rise in the proportion of women over 25 using ADHD medication in the UK. The study looked at 5...
22/01/2026
NB: The music in this broadcast has been removed from the podcast for rights reasons.
Anita Rani talks to double Olivier award winning actress D...
21/01/2026
Should the UK follow Australia in bringing in a social media ban for under 16s? The government has announced a consultation on the issue and peers deb...
Trump one year on, Family estrangement, Testing on pregnant women, Caroline Mitchell
We are a year into US President Trump's second term. He says he will tell European leaders "we have to have" Greenland at this week's forum in Davos,...
Andra Day, Breast Cancer, Autistic Barbie
New research will bring hope to the thousands of women in the UK living with secondary breast cancer. A simple blood test will be able to tell how wel...
Weekend Woman's Hour: Kids and screen time, Nikki Lilly, The Traitors, Subpar relationships, Mia McKenna-Bruce
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...
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 Hea...
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 do...
14/01/2026
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 execu...
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 f...
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...
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...
09/01/2026
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 tu...
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 ge...
07/01/2026
The Technology Secretary Liz Kendall has demanded urgent action from Elon Musk’s platform X, after it was found that its AI chatbot Grok is being used...
06/01/2026
Ten people have been found guilty of cyber-bullying Brigitte Macron, the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, by a Paris court, but that is not t...
Going It Alone, Venezuela, Military children
In our new series Going it Alone we are hearing from three women about their experiences of having a child without a partner. These are women who are...