Woman's Hour: News, Politics, Culture

Woman's Hour: News, Politics, Culture

Radio 4's Woman's Hour brings you topical subjects in the news, interviews and dicussions on issues affecting women around the world. Jenni Murray and Jane Garvey bring you the big celebrity names and leading women in the news and subjects range widely from politics to health, law, education, arts, parenting, relationships, work, fiction, food and fashion. Woman's Hour is broadcast Monday to Friday on BBC Radio 4 from 10.00 - 11.00. The podcast features highlights from each day's programme and will be published daily Monday to Friday. Find out more at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour

5 Episodes of this Podcast:

Woman's Hour 06 Nov 09

Published: 2009-11-06 05:02:00

With Jenni Murray: On today's programme:

Men & Infertility: On the day when the UK's first Fertility Show opens at London's Olympia Exhibition Centre, we ask why men find it harder than women to talk about their infertility;

UCAS Forms are being filled out all over the country - should parents be involved or should young people be left to stand on their own two feet?

Lycees - known as a tinned, syrupy dessert in the UK, but we discover their nobler cultural history in China;

The Polygamy Club was founded earlier this year by a controversial Malaysian Islamic sect, and has now opened a branch in neighbouring Indonesia. The BBC's correspondent in Jakarta tells us how Indonesian women feel about it.

And Anne Lister, known as Gentleman Jack to her neighbours in Halifax, West Yorkshire - her diaries and letters changed our ideas about 19th century lesbian history when they were published almost 20 years ago.

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WHNews: 05 Nov 09

Published: 2009-11-05 07:26:00

Jenni debates whose responsibility it is to keep children safe online; author Sue Townsend talks about the return of the much-loved Adrian Mole, now 39 and a quarter and still not very grown-up; the latest revival of the play "Mrs Klein" prompts a discussion about the legacy of the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein; and Sophie Grigson cooks up some soup live in the studio.

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WHNews: Woman's Hour 04 11 09

Published: 2009-11-05 07:11:00

Tennis legend Serena Williams talks about her extraordinary career and writing her autobiography, we hear about a new radio soap set in Kabul, couples who work together discuss the pleasures and pitfalls ( in the light of the new recommendations that MPs should not be able to employ their own relatives ) and finally, what's on your dressing table? We scratch the glass surface of this altar to womanly wiles.

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WHNews: Woman's Hour 03 Nov 2009

Published: 2009-11-03 07:33:00

Miranda Hart - The comedian on her new BBC2 series; Women Engineers and Work Clothes - Is there a need for more appropriate work attire? The Children who Fought Hitler - The memorial school in Ypres; Allison Fisher - One of the greatest women billiard players in the world.

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WHNews: Woman's Hour 2nd November 2009

Published: 2009-11-02 08:28:00

Today on Woman's Hour Martine McCutcheon talks about her first novel, 'The Mistress'. Jane is joined by children's solicitor, Christina Blacklaws, Anthony Douglas, Chief Executive of Cafcass and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children, Young People and Famlies, Baroness Delyth Morgan to talk about the reasons behind and the consequences of a 47% rise in applications to take children into care in the last year. We hear from poet Grace Nichols on her latest collection, 'Picasso, I Want My Face back'. And Organ Donation, why do only a quarter of us have donor cards when most us would be happy to have a donated organ should we need it. We hear from Sarah, who donated one of her kidneys to her boyfriend Paul, and NHS organ transplant czar, Chris Rudge.

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