Programme Index

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: Wed 3^rd Sep 2014, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Wed 3^rd Sep 2014, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Jenni Murray presents the female perspective, discussing groping in public places, Egypt's lost queens and a new translation of Anna Karenina. Show more

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Presenter:: Jenni Murray
Interviewed Guest:: Laura Bates
Interviewed Guest:: Rosamund Urwin
Interviewed Guest:: Carole Easton
Interviewed Guest:: Rosamund Bartlett
Interviewed Guest:: Joann Fletcher
Producer:: Emma Wallace

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Woman's Hour

Actress Billie Piper, Samia Shahid, Women-only addiction clinics

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: Thu 18^th Aug 2016, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Thu 18^th Aug 2016, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Billie Piper on depicting infertility on stage in a modern Yerma, Naz Shah MP seeking justice for Samia Shahid, women-only addiction centres and concert cellist Alisa Weilerstei. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:: Jenni Murray
Producer:: Emma Wallace
Interviewed Guest:: Billie Piper
Interviewed Guest:: Naz Shah
Interviewed Guest:: Sally Marlow
Interviewed Guest:: Alisa Weilerstein
Reporter:: Milly Chowles

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Woman's Hour

Folk singer Shirley Collins - on finding her lost voice after 38 years

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: Fri 11^th Nov 2016, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM

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Folk singer Shirley Collins, singing again after losing her voice to heartbreak 38 years ago; war widows' stories; actress Phoebe Fox; 91-year-old Romany traveller Zillah Smith. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:: Jenni Murray
Producer:: Emma Wallace
Interviewed Guest:: Shirley Collins
Interviewed Guest:: Phoebe Fox
Interviewed Guest:: Nadine Muller
Interviewed Guest:: Mary Moreland
Interviewed Guest:: Netta Cartwright
Interviewed Guest:: Zillah Smith
Interviewer:: Angela Robson

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Woman's Hour

Scummy Mummies, HRT, Ballerina Irina Kolesnikova

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: Thu 25^th Aug 2016, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Thu 25^th Aug 2016, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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The Scummy Mummies on finding humour in the messiness of motherhood, new research on HRT and breast cancer, and Irina Kolesnikova, principal dancer of the St Petersburg Ballet. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:: Jenni Murray
Producer:: Emma Wallace
Interviewed Guest:: Helen Thorn
Interviewed Guest:: Ellie Gibson
Interviewed Guest:: Sarah Williams
Interviewed Guest:: Katherine Woods
Interviewed Guest:: Irina Kolesnikova
Interviewed Guest:: Christine Rawlins
Interviewed Guest:: Caroline Small
Interviewed Guest:: Marion Michell
Reporter:: Melissa Viney

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Woman's Hour

The Truth About Women's Bodies

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 6^th Mar 2018, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Tue 6^th Mar 2018, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Woman's Hour busts some of the myths about vaginas. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:: Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:: Nina Brochmann
Interviewed Guest:: Ellen Stokken Dahl
Interviewed Guest:: Chenique undefined
Interviewed Guest:: Naquela undefined
Interviewed Guest:: Mary Dejevsky
Interviewed Guest:: Ann Francke
Reporter:: Jo Morris
Producer:: Emma Wallace

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Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman's Hour: Internet Dating; Storme Toolis; Midori

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: Sat 31^st Aug 2013, 16:00 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Sat 31^st Aug 2013, 16:00 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Going online in search of love, actress Storme Toolis on her new role in New Tricks, and the inspiration behind Blue Stockings, the debut play from Jessica Swale. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:: Jenni Murray
Interviewed Guest:: Midori undefined
Interviewed Guest:: Storme Toolis
Interviewed Guest:: Brian Lightman
Interviewed Guest:: Jessica Swale
Interviewed Guest:: Emma LE Rees
Interviewed Guest:: Claire Lomas
Editor:: Beverley Purcell
Producer:: Emma Wallace

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Woman's Hour

MP Gloria de Piero; the National Sperm Bank; Normcore

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 23^rd Sep 2014, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Tue 23^rd Sep 2014, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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With Emma Barnett. Including Gloria de Piero, shadow minister for women and equalities; first national sperm bank; Japan and child porn; normcore; and Scotland's first woman MP. Show more

Contributors

Producer:: Emma Wallace
Interviewed Guest:: Gloria De Piero
Interviewed Guest:: Laura Witjens
Interviewed Guest:: Sawa Omori
Interviewed Guest:: Sharon Kinsella
Interviewed Guest:: Lauren Cochrane
Interviewed Guest:: Josephine Collins
Interviewed Guest:: Elizabeth Quigley

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Woman's Hour

Shakira Martin, and embryo 'adoption' in the US

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 2^nd May 2017, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Tue 2^nd May 2017, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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New NUS president Shakira Martin, the US couples donating and 'adopting' embryos, coaching women's sport and Sarah Schmidt on her debut novel about Lizzie Borden. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:: Jane Garvey
Producer:: Emma Wallace
Interviewed Guest:: Shakira Martin
Interviewed Guest:: Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza
Interviewed Guest:: Lucy Frith
Interviewed Guest:: Danny Kerry
Interviewed Guest:: Chelsea Warr
Interviewed Guest:: Sarah Schmidt

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Woman's Hour

Robert Winston and fertility treatment, The Hairy Bikers

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: Wed 9^th Sep 2015, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Wed 9^th Sep 2015, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Professor Robert Winston talks about the world of fertility treatment. Plus discussion on the Hairy Bikers, Ruth Rendell's crime fiction and women in technology. With Jenni Murray. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:: Jenni Murray
Interviewed Guest:: Robert Winston
Interviewed Guest:: Dave Myers
Interviewed Guest:: Si King
Interviewed Guest:: Sophie Hannah
Interviewed Guest:: Erin Kelly
Interviewed Guest:: Eileen Burbidge
Producer:: Emma Wallace

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Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman's Hour: Hillary Clinton

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: Sat 5^th Jul 2014, 16:00 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Sat 5^th Jul 2014, 16:00 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Woman's Hour highlights. Hillary Clinton talks about her memoir. The impact of the successful prosecution of Rolf Harris. And how to protect the kids when you divorce or separate. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:: Jane Garvey
Producer:: Emma Wallace
Editor:: Beverley Purcell
Interviewed Guest:: Hillary Clinton
Interviewed Guest:: Joan Smith
Interviewed Guest:: Marion Smullen
Interviewed Guest:: John Cameron
Interviewed Guest:: Penelope Leach
Interviewed Guest:: Penny Mansfield
Interviewed Guest:: Gemma Cairney

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Woman's Hour

Angelina Jolie, William Hague, and Sexual Violence in Conflict

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: Wed 11^th Jun 2014, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Wed 11^th Jun 2014, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Angelina Jolie and William Hague at the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence In Conflict. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:: Jenni Murray
Producer:: Emma Wallace
Interviewed Guest:: Angelina Jolie
Interviewed Guest:: William Hague
Interviewed Guest:: Leymah Gbowee
Interviewed Guest:: Alice Allan
Interviewed Guest:: Nicola Jones
Interviewed Guest:: Leisl Gerntholez

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Woman's Hour

Laura Mvula; Justine Greening

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: Mon 15^th Jul 2013, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Mon 15^th Jul 2013, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Music from Laura Mvula. Powerlister Justine Greening, secretary of state for international development. And the campaign to stop so called 'revenge porn'. Jane Garvey presents. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:: Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:: Justine Greening
Interviewed Guest:: Laura Mvula
Interviewed Guest:: Julia Hornle
Interviewed Guest:: Ellie Hutchinson
Producer:: Emma Wallace

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Woman's Hour

Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: Wed 24^th Jul 2013, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Wed 24^th Jul 2013, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Trolling and women at public events; Chile's child rape victim and abortion; Dame Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley; topless image of French figurehead Marianne image; how to talk baby. Show more

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Presenter:: Jenni Murray
Producer:: Emma Wallace

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Woman's Hour

Kanya King; Life after the tsunami; Cervical cancer tests and screening; Bank notes

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 11^th Jun 2013, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Tue 11^th Jun 2013, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Kanya King, founder of the MOBO Awards; Sonali Deraniyagala's memoir of life after the tsunami that killed her parents, husband and children; cervical cancer screening and tests. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:: Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:: Kanya King
Interviewed Guest:: Sonali Deraniyagala
Producer:: Emma Wallace
Producer:: Shoku Amirani

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Woman's Hour

Sinn Fein's new leader Mary Lou McDonald, and sex abuse in the humanitarian sector

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 13^th Feb 2018, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Tue 13^th Feb 2018, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Sinn Fein's new leader Mary Lou McDonald and women in Northern Irish politics, sex abuse in the humanitarian sector, parenting in Paris, and dinosaurs on tour. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:: Jane Garvey
Producer:: Emma Wallace
Interviewed Guest:: Siobhan Fenton
Interviewed Guest:: Liesl Gerntholtz
Interviewed Guest:: Sienna Merope-Synge
Interviewed Guest:: Alicia Drake
Interviewed Guest:: Lorraine Cornish
Reporter:: Henrietta Harrison

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Olympic boxer Nicola Adams, Novelist Eimear McBride

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: Thu 8^th Sep 2016, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Thu 8^th Sep 2016, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Two-time Olympic gold medal winning boxer Nicola Adams, Eimear McBride, author of A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing, on her new novel, 150 years of Barnardos, and new zika advice. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:: Jenni Murray
Producer:: Emma Wallace
Interviewed Guest:: Nicola Adams
Interviewed Guest:: Eimear McBride
Interviewed Guest:: Sara Clarke
Interviewed Guest:: Brenda Farrell
Interviewed Guest:: Colleen Acosta

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Woman's Hour

Bat For Lashes; Losing a baby in pregnancy or birth

Duration: 54 minutes

First broadcast: Wed 6^th Jul 2016, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Wed 6^th Jul 2016, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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