 Topical subjects in the news affecting women around the world from BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Jenni Murray and Jane Garvey present news, views, interviews and discussions from a female perspective. Woman's Hour brings you the big celebrity names and leading women in the news and subjects range widely from politics to health, law, education, arts, parenting, relationships, work, fiction, food and fashion. Woman's Hour is broadcast Monday to Friday on BBC Radio 4 from 10.00 - 11.00.The best of the week's programmes are on Weekend Woman's Hour on Saturdays at 16.00. Tell us what you think - text WOMAN to 63399 or visit www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshourPrimary Format :
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WHNews: Woman's Hour 05 June 09 Jasvinder Sanghera [the founder of Karma Nirvana] and Anjum Anwar [Blackburn Cathedral Dialogue Development Officer] talk to Jenni Murray about the inter-generational conflict that can exist between women in Asian families. Jenni is also joined by Sister Kathleen Murphy who has written a book about the women of the early Christian church and chef Aiden Byrne talks about avocados.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour June 4th 09Today Peter Lawrence talks about the agony of not knowing what has happened to his daughter, Claudia who disappeared 11 weeks ago without a trace. Sarah Waters talks about her new novel, The Little Stranger. We hear from the Chief Inspector of Prisons, Anne Owers, on her concerns about the numbers of male prison officers working in women's prisons, and Jenni discusses the issues with Juliet Lyons from the Prison Reform Trust and Colin Moses from the Prison Officer's Association. And finally ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour 03 June 09A special edition celebrating the life and works of George EliotListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour 02 Jun 09On today's programme: Jane speaks to the BBC's Gulf correspondent about the fate of Sally Antia, the British woman in Dubai sentenced to two months in prison for adultery; Bryony Lavery, the award-winning playwright whose new play "Kursk" puts the audience alongside the actors on a nuclear submarine; Elizabeth Norman, the only woman to have been on the secretive committee which planned the D-Day landings; new research which shows that families with disabled children still don't feel accepte ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour 26th May 09Today we hear from Clare Short MP, broadcaster and journalist Amanda Platell, and consumer campaigner Lynn Faulds Wood on what you need to be a good MP. When Angus Cleaver's wife Abigail developed breast cancer he found himself on a steep learning curve . Angus and Antonia Dean, a clinical nurse specialist at Breast Cancer Care, talk about how he hopes to pass on what he's learned to other partners through his new website. And Nicky Jecks, an adult learner of the year, explains how she ju ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour 1 June 09SOS For Honey Bees; Hanan Al-Shaykh; the Closing of the Zito Trust; and Susan Boyle: Living the dream or TV exploitation?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: 29 May 09Jenni Murray speaks to Vilma Howe and Maria Ring, who were held prisoner by the Japaenese. They're experiences form part of an exhibition on POW's at the Imperial War Museum North. A new study into why people go abroad for fertility treatment and the merits - or otherwise - of taking someone else's child on holiday.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour 28 May 09Author Roma Tearne on her new novel, Brixton Beach; Keeping Quiet about Miscarriage; Plans to establish a UNICEF-style agency to champion women’s rights; Is “having it all” a myth? - listeners' responses.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour 27 May 09Victoria Hesketh, otherwise known as Little Boots has had a rapid trajectory into the limelight and is now Britain's most hotly tipped new popstar. She talks to Jenni about her distinctive style of music described as "cosmic Coronation street". Deborah Meaden, best known as one of the dragons from Dragon's Den describes how she cut her teeth in the family business. We hear about the role that "peer-educators" who've been teenage mothers can play in educating other teenagers about the realit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews:Woman'sHour_11thMay2009Female friendships:how, when and why do we make our lifelong friends;How can you cut the cost of your big day?
Martha and her fiancée John lost thousands of pounds in share related savings, leaving them with very little to finance their wedding. Reporter Anna McNamee met up with Martha to find out how, with the help of her friends and a website called freecycle, she is on track to have her big wedding after all.The women working in President Jacob Zumas new government: South Africa's ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour 08 May 09For years, Silvio Berlusconi's treatment of women has stoked the gossip columns in the Italian press. It has also brought him much derision from abroad but last year, the Italians made him their Prime Minister for the third time and he is massively popular in his own country. To discuss Berlusconi's continuing attraction to his fellow countrymen and women, Jenni Murray is joined by Daniela Casseli [Senior Lecturer in English and American studies at Manchester University] and Tobias Jones [a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour 07 May 09Highlights of today's programme. Rosie Boycott, A second woman for the US Supreme Court? Saudi women and Helen OyeyemiListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour 06 May 09Actor, Diana Quick on tracing her family roots to India; secondary infertility; listener feedback on obesity; 250 years since the birth of feminist author, Mary Wollstonecraft; and we remember Marilyn French who wrote The Women's Room.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: 05 May 09Jane Garvey discusses same sex couples adopting; Michelle Pfeiffer talks about her new film Cheri; the soprano Kate Royal on her new album of 20th century operatic arias and Alys Fowler, of Gardener's World on how to grow beetroot.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's 01 MayCarol Ann Duffy gives her very first interview as the new Poet Laureate. Alan and Irene Brogan discuss their experience of finding love after growing up in care, and a look at why President Sarkozy has been railing against Madame de Lafayette, one of France's most celebrated writers.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour 30 Apr 2009Highlights from today's programme.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour 29 April 2009Jenni Murray discusses how close we are to seeing another female Prime Minister; whether England's care system needs a radical overhaul; Alice Oswald's new poem, inspired by the River Severn at night; Mama Zeena, the Kenyan midwife who has helped bring more babies into the world than she can count.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour 28 Apr 09Jane Garvey discusses the changes taking place in the family courts as they are opened up to the media; three female Arsenal fans talk about their passion for live football; the pros and cons of 'baby-led weaning'; and the next installment in the BBC's Dig In campaign - this week, how to grow your own carrots.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews:Woman's Hour27thApril2009Nearly 40 years after the passage of the UKâs first Equal Pay Act, the government publishes the widely anticipated Equality Bill. We discuss the implications for women. What are the proposed measures? And will they narrow the gender pay gap, which still stands at 17.1%? Jane is joined by the BBCâs political correspondent, Joanna Shinn.Jan Ravens the comedian talks about her life as an impressionist.Follow your dreams, the Woman's Hour panel discusses Today on Womanâs Hour we ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: 24 Apr 09Lindsay Wagner shot to international fame in the 1970s when she took on the role of Jaime Somers - also known as The Bionic Woman. Now she works in prisons with perpetrators of domestic violence. Jenni also discusses whether boys need to take more responsibility in preventing teenage pregnancy and she talks to Gina Little who's lining up for 26th London marathon.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour 23 Apr 09Will Labour win the women's vote?; women truckers; your feedback on the death of a pet; and Sandra and Michael HowardListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Woman's Hour: 22 Apr 09Linda Sturdy has just been awarded £39,000 damages, which includes the biggest ever payout for injury to feelings in a discrimination case. Jenni talks to Linda about her victory and discusses its wider implications for employers.
Azar Nafisi is the author of the bestselling “Reading Lolita in Tehran”. She has now written a memoir about her family and her country.
Jenni also speaks to the Grammy award winning Irish singer and songwriter
Sinead O’Connor the re-release of her bes ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour 21 April 2009Jane discusses the Orange Prize Shortlist with Alex Clarke and Louise Doughty; Single Women in their 40s who want families; Crimes against women in Mexico with investigative journalist Lydia Cacho; How to grow your own lettuce with Alys Fowler.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour 20 Apr 09Jane hears why girls thrive in a single sex environment; the art of public speech; why the women of Afghanistan are protesting about a new law and the effects on the child from the over consumption of alcohol by women during pregnancy.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: 10 Apr 09As one of the big teaching unions debates a boycott of SATS tests we ask what parents think. Plus, Dr Shirley Tate on her study into what it is to be black and beautiful. We also appraise the art of small talk and visit The Gondola of Coniston Water, who has a woman at its helm for the first time in its history.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour 9th April 2009Today on Woman's Hour Jane Little talks to Professor Ursula King about her new book 'The Search for Spirituality', a sweeping examination of the world's spiritual landscape. Journalists, Toby Young and Brian Beacom, debate the positives and negatives of baldness. Once known as the sport of kings, falconry has been practised for thousands of years. We hear from two women from Devon who bought a team of birds three years ago. And we hear about a new permanent exhibition that looks at the rema ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour 08 Apr 09Last weekend the school girl Alice Powell became the youngest ever driver in the Formula Renault Championships - the F1 stepping stone. The 16 year old She tells Sheila about her passion for motor sport. We hear about a campaign to improve access to clean water in sanitation in Liberia as it recovers from 20 years of conflict. And Gail McGarva is one of the few remaining wooden boat builders able to build "by eye". She explains her love affair with boats and shares the secrets of her craft.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: 07 April 09Sheila McLennon talks to leading classical pianist Imogen Cooper, the novelist Jayne Anne Philips on her latest works and a discussion on the relaxation of the Spanish abortion laws.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour Monday 6th April 2009Today on Woman's Hour Sheila McClennon talks to Maureen Lipman about her latest role as Madame Armfeldt in A Little Night Music. With rising numbers of single child families we talk about the pros, cons and long term consequences of this change with Damon Syson, journalist and father of one, Ann Richardson, psychotherapist specialising in single child adults, and a single child herself, and Anastasia De Waal, Head of Family and Education at Civitas, the youngest of five. Juice, an all femal ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour 03 April 2009Sheila McClennon talks to jazz singer and comedian Lea DeLaria, explores one woman's struggle to return from Pakistan with her four children, hears from the author of Radio 4's book of the week 'Sisters of the Sinai', and gets an update on the latest developments in cervical screening.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour 02 Apr 09On today's Woman's Hour a look at whether history has been feminised; how are equal rights in Cuba 50 years after the revolution? Autism and girls: have we failed to diagnose? And dressing your partner: do you do it?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour Weds 1st April 09And on today's Woman's Hour we hear from Dr Ian Frampton on how new research is showing how thousands of girls may be predisposed to develop anorexia because of the way their brains developed in the womb.The number of children opting to learn to dance has risen by 83%, a third of those boys. Darren Bennet and Lilia Kopylova, of Strictly Come Dancing fame, join Jane to talk about this phenomenon, along with a dancing performance in the studio from two young students. Women in developing coun ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour 31 Mar 09In today's programme - The impact of the government's Early Years Foundation Stage on childminding; The writer, Winifred Foley talks about her childhood in the 1920s in the Forest of Dean; Teenagers and HIV and Aids in South Africa and psychotherapist, Jane Haynes, talks about her own past. The presenter is Jane Garvey.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews:30thMarch2009Happiness:As the recession hits and gloom appears all around, where do we look for happiness?Geraldine Bedell On her new novel 'The Gulf Between Us';More women to get a full basic state pension. Jane Garvey is joined by Rosie Winterton MP, Minister of State for Pensions and the Ageing Society, and Anna Pearson, Policy Manager for Help the Aged and a member of the Women’s Pensions Network.
PostNatal Care the French Way:When Janine Di Giovanni, an author and journalist based in Paris, gave ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour 27 Mar 09Sheila McClennon is joined by Julia Samuel [the Children Bereavement Charity] and Jonathan Pearce [Adoption UK] to look at the question of how long bereaved parents should wait before adopting. There is a discussion about flat shoe fashion with podiatrist Morag Bardsey and shoe historian Josie Hickin and Jennifer Birkett is on the line to talk about the novelist Storm Jameson. Midwife Juliet Albert talks about her new clinic in West London where she reverses female circumcision and Stephani ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews:Woman'sHour26thMarch2009Brain injury and pituitary damage: a mother talks about why she thinks this lead to her son's suicide; Beguines:In the late twelfth century groups of women began to develop a new way of living– not within a marriage or nunnery, but within communities that became known as beguinages. Within their walls women could work and trade and have possessions. They were religious communities but their members did not make vows and in time they were to incur the wrath of the Pope and often endureterr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour 25 March 2009The first female ambassadors to Russia and Spain; Women's sport and why the media needs to take it more seriously; The big ukulele revival with women at the forefront; Discrimination while on maternity leave.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour 24 Mar 09Jane Garvey discusses how to help people with learning disabilities have safe and fulfilling sex lives; the Lebanese blogger Zena el Khalil talks about her love for Beirut; a supermarket check-out worker describes how she handles difficult customers; and Dr Allan Pacey from the British Fertility Society explains why more men are choosing to have reverse vasectomies.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour Mon 23rd March 09Jane Garvey speaks to columnist and novelist Joan Smith about Jade Goody, Delia Smith about her life, food and football, Julie Lynn Evans, Daisy Goodwin and Simon Baker about the possible effects of divorce on children, and Alison Mitchell on the success of the English woman's cricket team, winners of the World Cup.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: 13 Mar 09Jenni talks to Professor Gareth Evans [one of this country’s leading consultants in medical genetics]and to Dr Vivienne Nathanson [Head of Science and Ethics at the BMA]. They will be discussing whether or not there should be a change to patient confidentiality laws so that doctors can inform close relatives of those with a genetic predisposition to breast cancer that they too may be at risk of developing the disease. Lord Lester talks about the Cohabitation Bill [getting its second readi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews:The epidural and what place it should have in childbirth. Plus, the innovation of felt coffins and the increase of child terrorists in Pakistan.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour 11 March 2009Profile of the late Susan Tsvangirai, wife of the prime minister of Zimbabwe; Cosmetic Surgery - can a backlash against adverts be justified? A new biography of Catherine the Great, popularly described in her day as an assassin with voracious sexual appetites.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews:March10th2009Laura Izibor, Irish soul from the 21 year old Irish/Nigerian singer songwriter; a profile of Kathleen Sebelius, President Obamaâs nomination for Secretary of State for Health and Human Services; Understanding the way our children make their friends;Health in the Palestinian territories and a two year international investigation which shows the effect of the occupation, the recent conflicts in Gaza and inter-Palestinianfighting on the health and development of the population.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour 09 Mar 09Today on Woman's Hour we hear from the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith about the launch of the largest ever public consultation to tackle violence against women and girls, Ulrika Johnson and Dr Suzy Elneil on light adult incontinence and why women are often to embaressed to address a very common problem, why a national debate has erupted in India about culturally acceptable behaviour for women, and the former Children's Laureate, Jacqueline Wilson on the newly published,second part of her auto ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour 09 Mar 09Today on Woman's Hour we hear from the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith about the launch of the largest ever public consultation to tackle violence against women and girls, Ulrika Johnson and Dr Suzy Elneil on light adult incontinence and why women are often to embaressed to address a very common problem, why a national debate has erupted in India about culturally acceptable behaviour for women, and the former Children's Laureate, Jacqueline Wilson on the newly published,second part of her auto ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour March 06Jenni Murray speaks to Marie McCourt, who's concerned about the new parole board hearings. Her daughter, Helen, was murdered over 20 years ago and the killer is due for release. We'll also be reporting on the arrest of the Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi in Tehran. Plus – the money that’s helping some of the poorest women on earth become entrepreneurs. And why DNA analysis is shedding light on the position of women in ancient Greece.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour 05 Mar 09Highlights from today's Woman's Hour. Glenys Kinnock MEP on her career in politics; Lance Corporal Martyn Compton and his wife Michelle on life after he was blown up, set alight and shot in a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan; Nicola Minichiello the new World Bobsleigh Champion and Jan Wong on the Cultural Revolution in China.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour 04 Mar 2009Highlights from today's Woman's Hour. Women in the Recession - Downing Street roundtable and Fawcett Report; osteoporosis; Women who pay for sex; and agony aunt Irma Kurtz on growing old disgracefully.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHNews: Woman's Hour 03 Mar 09Bulgaria's state run care homes need massive overhaul according to charities working there who say children from birth, both disabled and able bodied are confined to dirty beds with the minimum of care. Jane discusses the problem with campaigner Rosa Monckton, Bulgarian journalist Vladimir Bereanu and the deputy chair of the State Agency for Child Protection in Bulgaria, Hristo Momov. We hear from the captain of the England women's cricket team about their prospects in the World Cup, plus c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | |
