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
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‘Sextortion diary’, dealing with a terminal diagnosis, Judy Garland impersonator
Elite rower Helen Glover, Leader Interview: Carla Denyer, Les Amazones d'Afrique, Ozempic
Graves of stillborn babies, Chaka Khan, Climate seniors, Right wing women leaders in the EU
Paloma Faith, Leader interview: Rhun Ap Iorwerth, Parents with learning difficulties
Naomi Klein, Thornaby FC, folk singer-songwriter Aoife O’Donovan, author Lucy Foley
Isabella Tree, Emma Caldwell case, Baroness Delyth Morgan
Plus ones, Swifties, Scotland rape rule, Long-lost siblings
Bat for Lashes, Women and D-Day, Author Saima Mir, Sextortion
Tina Fey, Ireland's first 'witch', does young farmer culture have a problem with women?
Abandoned babies, Adventurer Alice Morrison, Being a 'BoyMum'
Mexico election, Queenie actor, Breast milk donor
Weekend Woman’s Hour: Ruth Jones, Netball Super League, FGM ban at risk in Gambia, Muses, Hadestown creator Anaïs Mitchell
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Weekend Woman’s Hour: British cyclist Lizzy Banks, Show-women, Love bombing, Infected blood scandal
Ozempic, Netball Super League, Olivier award-winner Cassidy Janson
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