This week, it was announced that 883 actors, writers, comedians and creatives had signed an open letter in support of Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, the star in a new production of Romeo & Juliet, due to run in London's West End next month. The open letter came after a statement was published by the Jamie Lloyd Company, "Following the announcement of our Romeo & Juliet cast, there has been a barrage of deplorable racial abuse online directed towards a member of our company..." It was co-authored by actor Susan Wokoma who told us about the open letter.
We hear from the new head of British Vogue Chioma Nnadi, a London born, fashion journalist, podcaster and the first black woman to lead the title.
We hear the stories of women living in a women’s refuge in London.
Do you remember our segment on female psychopaths? We hear from one woman who has been officially diagnosed with the condition, M.E Thomas.
The pioneering feminist, journalist and activist Gloria Steinem made a name for herself in the 1960s and 70s through her journalism, which included going undercover at the New York Playboy Club to expose exploitative working conditions. She co-founded the Women's Action Alliance and in 1972 she co-founded Ms Magazine, putting conversations about gender equality, reproductive rights and social justice in the spotlight, and bringing the issues of the women's rights movement into the mainstream. Gloria has just celebrated her 90th birthday and tells us about the current state of reproductive rights in the US, the importance of community and hosting her own women's talking circle.
Could we be happier and more successful if we acted like toddlers? Dr Hasan Merali, Paediatric emergency medicine physician, Associate Professor at McMaster University and author of Sleep Well, Take Risks, Squish the Peas, tells us what we can learn about self-improvement from toddlers.
And we have music from the singer songwriter Rebecca Ferguson.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed
Mary McAleese, Isabel Hardman, Kitty Donaldson, Emma Reed Turrell, Viv Groskop, Dr Bernadette Jenner
Doctors' strike, Organist Anna Lapwood, Máiría Cahill, Suffragette medal
Performance artist Marina Abramovic, Universities and sexual misconduct, Nicole Scherzinger, Finances and friendship
Russian journalist-in-exile Elena Kostyuchenco, Karen Farquharson, Teleri Glyn Jones, Nerys Evans, Innes Fitzgerald
Nicole Scherzinger, Finances of friendship, Asha Puthli
Marina Abramovic, GB News, Dehenna Davison MP, Taylor Swift Symposium
Dame Joan Collins, Universities and sexual misconduct, Dr Ophira Ginsburg - a feminist approach to cancer
Sexism in football, Mum rage, China's MeToo
Tina Sinatra, Meg Winterburn and Willow Grylls on a new TV drama about the serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, Dame Christine Lenehan
Weekend Woman's Hour: Russell Brand accuser 'Alice' broadcast exclusive, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie & Doon Mackichan
'Sharenting', Blood Scandal, Mary Shelley, British Gymnastics
Iran hijab bill, BMX champion, CIISA, Doon Mackichan, Maternity in Sierra Leone
Climate Change Policy, Girlhood, Feminisation of the workplace
Russell Brand allegations & a 'staggered age of consent' with Baroness Helena Kennedy & Gudrun Young KC, Dr Susan Gilby
Russell Brand accuser 'Alice' broadcast exclusive, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nadiya Hussain, Women's reproductive survey, The Knock, AI and IVF, Arlo Parks
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Nadiya Hussain, Morocco earthquake, Equal pay, Wilderness
The Killing Kind author Jane Casey, AI in IVF treatment, The Knock - Evie's story
Dr Shazia Malik, Charlotte Regan, Female surgeons, Poison pen letters, The Knock special series
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