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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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21/01/2026
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
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...
Weekend Woman's Hour: Toni Collette, Adults regressing, The Archers special
Since her big break in Muriel’s Wedding 30 years ago, actor Toni Collette has graced our screens in a huge list of standout roles from The Sixth Sense...
02/01/2026
A new report out from UNICEF has revealed some devastating figures on the prevalence of sexual violence against children in the Democratic Republic of...
Woman's Hour celebrates the women of The Archers
It's 75 years to the day since The Archers first launched. Woman's Hour has come to Ambridge to celebrate the female characters who have helped this p...
31/12/2025
Since her big break in Muriel’s Wedding 30 years ago, actor Toni Collette has graced our screens in a huge list of standout roles from The Sixth Sense...
Beyoncé the billionaire, Adults regressing at Christmas, Girls' political confidence
Beyoncé has been declared a billionaire by Forbes, making her the fifth musician to join its list of the world's wealthiest people with 10 figure fort...
'Battle of the Sexes' 2025, Irish nurses, AI & age-related diseases
Yesterday, the women's tennis number one, Aryna Sabalenka, faced Nick Kyrgios, ranked 671st in the men's game, in a match that was dubbed the new 'Bat...
Weekend Woman’s Hour: Rituals, 250th anniversary of Jane Austen, Women and the dark
On Woman’s Hour Christmas Day programme, Nuala McGovern and Anita Rani discussed the rituals and traditions that we do at Christmas. Some passed down...
Women's relationships with the dark
NB: The music in this broadcast has been removed from the podcast for rights reasons.
We've just had the shortest day of the year, and the most...
The rituals and traditions of Christmas
On this Christmas Day’s Woman’s Hour Nuala McGovern and Anita Rani are discussing the rituals and traditions that we do at Christmas. Some passed down...
Epstein Files, Plane spotting, Janie Dee, South Asian female DJs
The US Department of Justice released another batch of documents related to the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Many of the pages are...
Caring for older visitors at Christmas, Women's protests in Iran, Female jazz musicians
Women and babies have become targets in conflicts around the world, according to an investigation by The Guardian. Along with data collected by the NG...
Christmas hosting, Epstein files, Women in retail, FGM
Christmas parties, Christmas dinners, Christmas Day: this time of the year can be full of hosting duties and opportunities. But for many women, hostin...
Weekend Woman's Hour: Violence against women and girls, Kate Hudson, Female tribute bands
This week the Government set out its strategy to deal with violence against women and girls. This makes up nearly 20% of all recorded crime in England...
Kate Hudson, Undercover policing, Sophie Blake, Women on the Left
Hollywood actor Kate Hudson’s latest movie Song Sung Blue is based on the real life story of Wisconsin couple Mike and Claire Sardina. Kate plays Clai...
18/12/2025
Today the Government sets out its strategy to deal with violence against women and girls. This makes up nearly 20% of all recorded crime in England an...
17/12/2025
A man believed to be the UK’s most prolific romance fraudster, who conned a number of women into giving him almost a million pounds, has been jailed f...
Why is Jane Austen still so relevant to women today?
Woman’s Hour celebrates the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth. Nuala McGovern delves into the world that Jane was born into in 1775 to explore...
15/12/2025
The Government is set to unveil its long-awaited Violence Against Women and Girls strategy later this week. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has describ...
Weekend Woman's Hour: Maternity care review, Weight loss drugs and exercise, Wages for housework
Baroness Amos, who was appointed by the Health Secretary to lead an independent rapid investigation into NHS maternity and neonatal care in England, h...
12/12/2025
The Government has announced a £3 billion investment to create around 50,000 new specialised places for children with Special Educational Needs and Di...
Maria Corina Machado, Netball cardiac screening, Gabby Logan, AI teachers
Venezuelan politician and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado was met with cheers on a hotel balcony in Norway in the middle of the night th...
10/12/2025
John Smyth is believed to be the most prolific serial abuser associated with the Church of England. In 2024, an independent review carried out by Keit...
Maternity care review, Weight training and weight loss drugs, Bows in fashion
Baroness Amos, who was appointed by the Health Secretary to lead an independent rapid investigation into NHS maternity and neonatal care in England, h...
Freebirthing, Author Sarah Mughal Rana, Syria: One year on
Have you heard of Freebirthing? It’s giving birth without any medical help or intervention. A new podcast by The Guardian has investigated an Americ...
Weekend Woman's Hour: Jacinda Ardern, Women leaving teaching, Friendships with exes
When Jacinda Ardern became Prime Minister of New Zealand in 2017 at the age of 37, she was the youngest female head of government in the world. She al...