Weekend Woman's Hour

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

Woman's Hour: Weekend Woman's Hour: Arlo Parks performs, Susannah Constantine and alcoholism & internet sensation Jackie Weaver

Singer Arlo Parks, Suzanne Heywood on the legacy of her husband Jeremy Heywood and Journalist Nadine White

Weekend Woman's Hour: Arlo Parks performs, Susannah Constantine and alcoholism & internet sensation Jackie Weaver

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Weekend Woman's Hour: Arlo Parks performs, Susannah Constantine and alcoholism & internet sensation Jackie Weaver

Arlo Parks, Susannah Constantine and Jackie Weaver.

Arlo Parks performs, Susannah Constantine on being a functional alcoholic, and internet sensation Jackie Weaver.

The singer/songwriter Arlo Parks was named the BBC Introducing Artist of the Year in October. She tells us about her debut album Collapsed in Sunbeams – and performs the track Green Eyes.  

Susannah Constantine the author, journalist and fashionista tells us about her alcoholism.  Sober now for seven years, she believes a lot of women are struggling with alcohol addiction during lockdown.  She tells us about the feelings of shame surrounding her drinking and how she believes it leads to a sense of isolation and loneliness.  

We hear why women are at the forefront of protests in India against new farming laws. BBC’s South Asia Correspondent Rajini Vaidyanathan and Usha Seethalakshmi from Makaam, a forum for Women's Farmers Rights in India discuss.

The Ministry of Justice recently announced plans for up to 500 new prison cells to be built in women's jails. They say these will be created in existing women's prisons to increase the number of single cells available and improve conditions. But these announcements have drawn criticism from a number of organisations. We hear from Kate Paradine from Women in Prison, Joy Doal the CEO of Anawim, a Women’s Centre in Birmingham, and from Lucy Frazer  the Prisons Minister. 

Zara Mohammed is the first woman and the youngest person to be elected to lead the Muslim Council of Britain - the largest umbrella organisation representing British Muslims. She discusses her new role with us.

And the internet sensation Jackie Weaver tells us all about ‘that’ Parish Council  Zoom meeting.

Presenter: Anita Rani
Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed
Editor: Lucinda Montefiore

Guest: Susannah Constantine
Guest: Rajini Vaidyanathan
Guest: Usha Seethalakshmi
Guest: Arlo Parks
Guest: Lucy Frazer
Guest: Joy Doal
Guest: Kate Paradine
Guest: Zara Mohammed
Guest Jackie Weaver

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

Weekend Woman's Hour: Arlo Parks performs, Susannah Constantine and alcoholism & internet sensation Jackie Weaver

Genres

Brand

BBC Radio 4 FM

About BBC Radio 4