Original version

BBC Radio 4 FM

BBC Radio 4 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced BBC Home Service.

BBC Radio 4

Radio 4

Radio 4 (FM)

Woman's Hour

Magazines & Reviews

Podcasts

Factual: Life Stories

Factual: Health & Wellbeing

Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.

BBC Radio 4 LW

Jenni Murray

Beverley Purcell

Laura Mvula

Naomi Climer

Rowan Crosby

Pete Crosby

Jan Tregelles

Woman's Hour: Laura Mvula on her new album The Dreaming Room.

Factual

womans-hour_laura-mvula_230616_e_sophie-powling.jpg

23/06/2016

Laura Mvula on her new album The Dreaming Room.

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Laura Mvula on her new album The Dreaming Room.

Laura Mvula talks about her new album The Dreaming Room and living life in the public eye.

Laura Mvula on her new album The Dreaming Room. Finding work experience if you're disabled. Mencap celebrates being 70. And why Naomi Climer wants more women to become engineers.

Laura Mvula talks about her rise to fame, the problem's she's faced and the inspiration behind her new material. Plus a performance of Show Me Love taken from the new album - The Dreaming Room.

On National Women in Engineering day we hear from Naomi Climer, the first woman president of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Now she's back in the UK - having spent time in LA - she wants to change the image of the engineer, and encourage more girls to consider it as a career.

Schools across the UK will start sending students off for work experience over the next few weeks but how do you secure that all important placement if you have a disability. Fourteen year old Rowan, who is disabled and her dad Pete talk about the challenges .

And as Mencap turns 70 , Chief Executive Jan Tregelles tells about how the charity's history, what it's achieved and the challenges it faces in the future. 

Presented by Jenni Murray
Producer Beverley Purcell.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Woman's Hour

Laura Mvula on her new album The Dreaming Room.

Contributors

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC Radio 4 FM

About BBC Radio 4