Lucy Manning, Women farmers, Zainab Johnson, Robyn Malcolm

In Lucy Manning’s words, it started with a phone call... A call from a withheld number late at night in October 2022 where the unknown male caller appeared to be masturbating as he made lewd comments about her. And so began what she describes as a two year ordeal to get police to arrest and charge the man responsible for making those calls. Lucy joins Nuala McGovern in the Woman’s Hour studio.

Zainab Johnson, one of America’s freshest voices in stand-up comedy, is making her UK debut this week at London’s Soho Theatre. She joins Nuala to discuss mining her massive family for material, growing up as a black Muslim woman in Harlem and her most toxic personality trait: optimism.

New Zealand actor Robyn Malcolm joins Nuala to talk about her morally complex and challenging new drama After the Party. Robyn co-created the drama and plays the lead character, a woman who has accused her husband of sexually assaulting a teenage boy. She explains what drew her to this subject matter and how she negotiated acting alongside her real life husband in the drama.

24 year old product design and technology graduate Olivia Humphreys is a Global Medical Winner of the James Dyson Award 2024, and the first Irish winner of the global competition. Her invention Athena is a portable, thermoelectric hair-loss prevention device for chemotherapy patients that uses scalp cooling. She explains how the product works, the benefits of a portable design, and how her mum inspired it.