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
Millie Bobby Brown, Arlo Parks, Martha's Rule
Weekend Woman's Hour: Economic Abuse, Should there be a Minister for Men? Rebuilding my life: Martine Wright
Economic Abuse, Michal Oshman, Roisin Gallagher, Barbershop Quartet, Mum shaming
Primodos debate, Rebuilding my life: Wiz Wharton, Cricket umpire pay
Listener phone in - should there be a Minister for Men? Could the role ultimately help women?
Nick Fletcher MP, Rebuilding my life: Martine Wright, Food writer Bee Wilson, Filmmaker Celine Song
Radioactive chapatis, Hostage negotiation, Non-birth mothers, Japanese women in politics
DIY fertility tests, Sudan conflict, Rebuilding my life
Hostage negotiator Nicky Perfect, Sarah Beeny, Chelsea Women Manager Emma Hayes, Mothers with bipolar, Bad lists
Emma Hayes, manager of Chelsea FC Women, Karis Anderson on Tina Turner, Rose Matafeo and Emma Sidi on Starstruck
Scottish rape survivors, Writer Natasha Walter, New research on the Y chromosome and male infertility
Sarah Beeny, Rebekah Staton, Spanish football kiss update, Deborah Bonello on Narcas
Lists: How and why we make them, The psychology behind list-making, Lists in the public domain, Music and lists
Listener Week: Psychedelics, Strongwomen, Kleptomania, Living funerals, Being a refugee, Women in heavy metal
Listener Week: Generative AI, Female thatchers, Big noses, Communal living
Listener Week: Psychedelics, Peripheral friendship, Posthumous conception, Beach Guardian
Listener Week: Is it ever good to give up on dreams? Working class women & university, Living funerals
Listener Week: Ukrainian women soldiers, Long lost families, Strong women, Refugees, Eating Alone
Listener Week: Women's World Cup final, Shoplifting, Heavy metal
Women's World Cup final, Surviving a WWII Japanese prison camp, Care leavers, 'Older-age orphans', Nasa astronaut Christina Koch
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