Woman's Hour

Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire. Listen to The Woman's Hour Guide to Life on BBC Sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/guidetolife

Episodes (2264 available)

Woman's Hour

Matrescence, Mexico's 'searching mothers', New novel The Night Nag

Neurologists report a change in grey matter in pregnant women's brains.

4 Mar 2026

59 mins

Woman's Hour

Sarah Everard anniversary, The Traitors' Harriet Tyce, Geniuses

Five years after Sarah Everard's murder by a police officer, what has changed?

3 Mar 2026

58 mins

Woman's Hour

Women in Iran, George Eliot on stage, Professor Kate Pickett

What do current events in Iran mean for women in the country?

2 Mar 2026

58 mins

Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman's Hour: Tracey Emin, SEND reforms, Student midwives

Groundbreaking artist Tracey Emin talks about her body of work in a new exhibition.

28 Feb 2026

58 mins

Woman's Hour

Tracey Emin, Menstrual blood, Hannah Spencer MP

The groundbreaking artist talks about her body of work in a new exhibition.

27 Feb 2026

59 mins

Woman's Hour

'Molly vs the Machines' doc, Female Afghan Ambassador, Maternity care, Cleopatra re-imagined

Molly Russell's friends discuss the negative impact of social media.

26 Feb 2026

58 mins

Woman's Hour

Kyla Harris, Womb transplants, Women in farming, Alev Scott

How have Kyla Harris' experiences as a disabled person impacted her unflinching TV series?

25 Feb 2026

59 mins

Woman's Hour

SEND reforms: A Woman's Hour and SEND in the Spotlight special

We hear from a range of voices on the impact of the government's SEND reforms in England.

24 Feb 2026

58 mins

Woman's Hour

Marian Keyes, SEND, Designer Tolu Coker, Student midwives

Irish author Marian Keyes on her new BBC series, The Walsh Sisters.

23 Feb 2026

58 mins

Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman’s Hour: Rosamund Pike, Nadiya Hussain, Gisele Pelicot memoir, Dr Punam Krishan, Ketamine & young people

Actor Rosamund Pike on motherhood and masculinity.

21 Feb 2026

54 mins

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