Model turned TV personality Katie Price joins Clare McDonnell to talk about her views on young women getting cosmetic surgery, after having several procedures herself.
It’s 60 years since the first Biba shop opened and the Fashion and Textile Museum in London have just launched a new exhibition: The Biba Story - 1964-1975. On until September, it explores how the fashion phenomenon blossomed to become the world’s first lifestyle label. Nuala McGovern speaks to its founder, Barbara Hulanicki, and the curator of the exhibition, Martin Pel.
Australian politician Georgie Purcell is the youngest woman in the parliament of the state of Victoria. From posting TikToks about animal rights, politics, and beer, to archiving her life achievements with tattoos and sharing photos of herself pole dancing – she is definitely not your average politician. She’s also been a target of almost constant sexist attacks and abuse, which on occasions made her fear for her life. Georgie talks to Nuala about why she's still determined to get more women into politics.
Described as a grim portrayal of human nature, Mothers’ Instinct is a film about the darker side of maternal love. Academy Award-winning actresses Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway play best friends raising sons of the same age in the same neighbourhood. The psychological thriller follows their apparently picture-perfect life in Sixties suburbia. The two friends in real life join Nuala to discuss.
TM Payne, or Tina, spent the last two decades working in the criminal justice system, specialising in domestic abuse. She’s now turned her hand to writing and is set to publish her first crime novel on the 1 April. She talks about her years in policing and her new-found passion for fiction.
And MOBO Award-winning singer and songwriter, Zara McFarlane, one of the UK's leading jazz vocalists. She will be appearing at this year’s Cheltenham Jazz Festival.
Presenter: Clare McDonnell Producer: Rebecca Myatt Studio manager: Emma Harth
Solving historic rape cases, British cyclist Lizzy Banks, Margaret Leng Tan
Infected blood scandal, Anita Pallenberg, Feminist theatre
Weekend Woman’s Hour: Royal Navy exclusive, Tamsin Greig, Period Tracker Apps, Formula One, Sleepwalking, Choral music
Lesbian bars, Period Tracker Apps, World champion boxer, Lauren Price MBE
Women in Formula One, Monstrum, Sex education, Bridgerton dresses
Beth Mead, Women and choral music, Eating disorders
Birth trauma, Sleepwalking, Lolita Chakrabarti
Royal Navy Exclusive, Sarah Atherton MP, Tamsin Greig, singer-songwriter Lauren Mayberry
Weekend Woman's Hour: Foster caring, Liz Carr on assisted dying, Sabrina Ali on Dugsi Dayz, Rachel Chinouriri
Whooping cough, Shirley Conran, Lying, Afghanistan tourism
Liz Carr on assisted dying, Money in relationships, Singer Rachel Chinouriri
Safer sport for women, novelist Nadine Matheson, Sabrina Ali on Dugzi Dayz
Losing your possessions, Defining honour abuse, Foster caring
How to age well: A Woman's Hour special
Weekend Woman's Hour: Co-parenting, Plastic pollution, ACL injuries, Perinatal suicide
Listener phone in: Boys - what's it's like to be one in 2024?
Woman's Hour special: How is porn shaping our sex lives and relationships?
Lawyer Harriet Wistrich, Chef Asma Khan, ACL injuries and women
Co-parenting, Homelessness and women, Dr Jessica Taylor
Sex and choking, Online Abuse and work, Plastic pollution
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