Woman's Hour
Society

Woman's Hour

by BBC Radio 4

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

104 episodes
EN language
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1
AI heart health mammogram, Prison family visits, The manosphere
58:14 Mar 17, 2026
2
16/03/2026
57:54 Mar 16, 2026
3
Leeds Maternity Review, Forgetting birthdays, the term ‘rough wooing’, Ashley Dalton MP, Maimuna Memon
51:06 Mar 14, 2026
4
CPR on women, AI toys, Maimuna Memon
53:15 Mar 13, 2026
5
Dunblane 30 years on, Catfishing, Forgetting birthdays
58:12 Mar 12, 2026
6
11/03/2026
57:17 Mar 11, 2026
7
Rape investigations, Ashley Dalton MP, Winter Paralympics, Comic novel Motherfaker
58:13 Mar 10, 2026
8
Iran's women's football team, Menopause and mental health, Katherine Priddy
53:22 Mar 9, 2026
9
Weekend Woman's Hour: Matrescence, Ramadan & the 'sandwich generation', The Traitors' Harriet Tyce
57:23 Mar 7, 2026
10
Iranian diaspora, Gen Z study, Onjali Rauf
58:18 Mar 6, 2026
11
05/03/2026
58:45 Mar 5, 2026
12
Matrescence, Mexico's 'searching mothers', New novel The Night Nag
59:01 Mar 4, 2026
13
Sarah Everard anniversary, The Traitors' Harriet Tyce, Geniuses
58:23 Mar 3, 2026
14
Women in Iran, George Eliot on stage, Professor Kate Pickett
58:20 Mar 2, 2026
15
Weekend Woman's Hour: Tracey Emin, SEND reforms, Student midwives
57:42 Feb 28, 2026
16
Tracey Emin, Menstrual blood, Hannah Spencer MP
58:30 Feb 27, 2026
17
26/02/2026
58:21 Feb 26, 2026
18
Kyla Harris, Womb transplants, Women in farming, Alev Scott
59:20 Feb 25, 2026
19
SEND reforms: A Woman's Hour and SEND in the Spotlight special
58:15 Feb 24, 2026
20
Marian Keyes, SEND, Designer Tolu Coker, Student midwives
58:14 Feb 23, 2026
21
Weekend Woman’s Hour: Rosamund Pike, Nadiya Hussain, Gisele Pelicot memoir, Dr Punam Krishan, Ketamine & young people
53:53 Feb 21, 2026
22
Rosamund Pike, Ketamine, Author Madeline Cash, Winter Olympics
58:21 Feb 20, 2026
23
George Sand, SEND provision leak, Dr Punam Krishan, Divine Feminine Opera
55:36 Feb 19, 2026
24
Belle Burden, Controversy at the Civil Service, Women in Sudan, Pelvic mesh
58:15 Feb 18, 2026
25
Gisèle Pelicot memoir, Catrin Finch, Ice Hockey mixed teams
53:50 Feb 17, 2026
26
Nadiya Hussain, Actor Kate Fleetwood, 200 marathons in 200 days
54:11 Feb 16, 2026
27
Weekend Woman’s Hour: Kinship carers, Ashley James, Mia Brookes’s mum, impact of Ian Paterson's crimes, Charles Dickens’s women
57:00 Feb 14, 2026
28
13/02/2026
57:57 Feb 13, 2026
29
Ashley James, Nancy Guthrie disappearance, Kinship carers
47:16 Feb 12, 2026
30
Virginia Giuffre’s co-author, SEND reforms, impact of Ian Paterson's crimes
54:29 Feb 11, 2026
31
10/02/2026
57:13 Feb 10, 2026
32
Epstein files, Lindsey Vonn, Knife crime, Charles Dickens' women
57:23 Feb 9, 2026
33
Weekend Woman's Hour: Undercover Police Inquiry, Foster care expansion, AI boyfriends
55:35 Feb 7, 2026
34
Sinners, AI boyfriends, Autistic girls, Abuse and Muslim women
57:30 Feb 6, 2026
35
Cervical cancer testing, Imogen Poots, Syria and women, Janet Jackson play
57:09 Feb 5, 2026
36
Foster care expansion, Romola Garai, Greenland’s Gender Equality Minister
57:09 Feb 4, 2026
37
Sarah Ferguson, Child free guilt, Actor Susan Wokoma, Understanding the courts
57:03 Feb 3, 2026
38
Undercover Police Inquiry, Anne Boleyn, The Puppini Sisters, Cyber voyeurism
57:11 Feb 2, 2026
39
Paris Paloma, Repair Cafes, French conjugal rights, Gynae care in Wales
51:31 Feb 2, 2026
40
Weekend Woman's Hour: Pensions gender gap, Winter Olympics, Paris Paloma
24:31 Jan 31, 2026
41
Pensions gender gap, Rape investigations complaint, Women and AI
57:43 Jan 29, 2026
42
Pornhub restrictions, Home birth suspensions, Jessica Curry, Winter Olympics
56:52 Jan 28, 2026
43
New menopause research, Singing for wellbeing, Greenland women, Office romance
56:31 Jan 27, 2026
44
Yanis Varoufakis, Bonnie Langford, 'Catastrophic' waits for NHS community care, Killer in the House documentary
55:04 Jan 26, 2026
45
Weekend Woman's Hour: Social media ban for under 16s, Family estrangement, Denise Gough
56:22 Jan 24, 2026
46
ADHD and women, Author Claire Lynch, Gaming for good
57:29 Jan 23, 2026
47
Denise Gough, Gymnastics post birth, Endometriosis tribunal
56:25 Jan 22, 2026
48
Social media ban for under 16s, Class privilege at Cambridge, Women's sports coaches
57:23 Jan 21, 2026
49
Trump one year on, Family estrangement, Testing on pregnant women, Caroline Mitchell
56:25 Jan 20, 2026
50
Andra Day, Breast Cancer, Autistic Barbie
57:07 Jan 19, 2026
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