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Brighton Festival, Laurie Anderson on the poetry of Lou Reed, Cannes Film Festival

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Laurie Anderson and the poetry of Lou Reed, events from the Brighton Festival including Three Score Dance, Morag Myerscough and the art of Corita Kent, plus film news from Cannes. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Jason Solomons
Interviewed Guest:
Laurie Anderson
Interviewed Guest:
Three Score Dance
Interviewed Guest:
Morag Myerscough

Front Row

François Ozon's L'Amant Double, Patrick Heron, Rachel Kushner

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

French director Francois Ozon discusses his latest film L'Amant Double, plus Patrick Heron at Tate St Ives and Rachel Kushner on her latest novel set in a US women's prison. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
François Ozon
Interviewed Guest:
Andrew Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Susanna Heron
Interviewed Guest:
Rachel Kushner

Front Row

Pretty Yende, Dennis Lehane, The Handmaid's Tale

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Pretty Yende making her debut at the Royal Opera House, Dennis Lehane on his new novel Since We Fell and The Handmaid's Tale reviewed. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Pretty Yende
Interviewed Guest:
Sarah Churchwell
Interviewed Guest:
Dennis Lehane
Interviewed Guest:
Adrian Wootton
Presenter:
Kirsty Lang

Front Row

Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge on Star Wars, Andrew Sean Greer, Comic novels

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Arts news, interviews and reviews. Phoebe Waller-Bridge on playing a female droid in the Star Wars franchise, plus Andrew Sean Greer on his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Less. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Interviewed Guest:
Andrew Sean Greer
Interviewed Guest:
Arifa Akbar

Woman's Hour

Mary J Blige and Carey Mulligan, Grace Mugabe

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Mary J Blige and Carey Mulligan, the future of Grace Mugabe, social media poet Nikita Gill and Lisa Carne on protecting Belize's coral reef. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Interviewed Guest:
Mary J Blige
Interviewed Guest:
Carey Mulligan
Interviewed Guest:
Kate Law
Interviewed Guest:
Clionadh Raleigh
Interviewed Guest:
Lisa Carne
Interviewed Guest:
Sophie Wear
Interviewed Guest:
Nikita Gill

Woman's Hour

Leonora Carrington; Crafts for children; Women and guns in the US

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington; gender pay gap; texts that change your life; crafts for children; women carrying guns in the US. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Interviewed Guest:
Jo Swinson
Interviewed Guest:
Joanna Moorhead
Interviewed Guest:
Laura Dockrill
Interviewed Guest:
Christine Leech

Woman's Hour

Women jockeys in The Grand National, Louise Martin, Men writing female characters, Bump, Birth and Beyond.

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Jenni Murray talks to Louise Martin, first female president of the Commonwealth Games Federation. Plus women jockeys and the Grand National, and men writing female characters. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Interviewed Guest:
Ailbhe Conneely
Interviewed Guest:
Louise Martin
Interviewed Guest:
Mike Gayle
Interviewed Guest:
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Woman's Hour

Erla Bolladottir, Clothes for zero gravity, Katharine Welby-Roberts

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Erla Bolladottir and the double-murder that rocked Iceland in the 1970s. Astronaut Dr Helen Sharman and Dr Barbara Brownie on designing clothes for zero gravity. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Erla Bolladottir
Interviewed Guest:
Helga Arnardottir
Interviewed Guest:
Katharine Welby-Roberts
Interviewed Guest:
Helen Sharman
Interviewed Guest:
Barbara Brownie

Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman's Hour: Kate Winslet, Appearance, Carrie Brownstein

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Highlights from the Woman's Hour week, including Kate Winslet on her films The Dresser and Steve Jobs. Plus a look at why appearance matters and the business of beauty. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Kate Winslet
Interviewed Guest:
Judith Woods
Interviewed Guest:
Nicky Cox
Interviewed Guest:
Amy Childs
Interviewed Guest:
Mahlet Zimeta
Interviewed Guest:
Phillippa Diedrichs
Interviewed Guest:
Sali Hughes
Interviewed Guest:
Sonia Haria
Interviewed Guest:
Vivienne Rudd
Interviewed Guest:
Carrie Brownstein
Interviewed Guest:
Zoe Rahman
Interviewed Guest:
Issie Barratt

Woman's Hour

Andy Burnham MP, the pill and endometrial cancer, male muses

Duration: 54 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

With Andy Burnham, Labour leadership contender, new research on the effect of the pill on preventing endometrial cancer, male muses, and the Buddha and women. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Emma Barnett
Interviewed Guest:
Andy Burnham
Interviewed Guest:
Bettany Hughes
Interviewed Guest:
Valerie Beral
Interviewed Guest:
Clare Pollard
Interviewed Guest:
Kim Devereux

Woman's Hour

DSK, what do French women think? Why do parents keep quiet about their children's mental ill-health?Jean Harrod

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Dominique Strauss-Kahn trial: what do French women think? Why are parents reluctant to access counselling for children? And diplomat-turned-novelist Jean Harrod. With Jenni Murray. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Interviewed Guest:
Agnes Poirier
Interviewed Guest:
Fiona Pienaar
Interviewed Guest:
Jean Harrod
Interviewed Guest:
Marissa Begonia

Woman's Hour

Laura Mvula, Laini Taylor, Co-housing for older women

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Laura Mvula on anxiety; fantasy fiction writer Laini Taylor on her latest book; Britain's first co-housing scheme specifically designed for and by older women. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Laura Mvula
Interviewed Guest:
Kevin Hyland
Interviewed Guest:
Laini Taylor

Woman's Hour

The Woman's Hour Craft Prize exhibition opens, and Hermione Norris

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Hermione Norris and Cold Feet; Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh cook the perfect pavlova; pensions and women born in the 1950s; Craft Prize. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Carolyn Harris
Interviewed Guest:
Hermione Norris
Interviewed Guest:
Yotam Ottolenghi
Interviewed Guest:
Helen Goh
Interviewed Guest:
Evelyn Mok

Woman's Hour

Dava Sobel, Miriam Margolyes

Duration: 41 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Dava Sobel and the women 'computers' at Harvard Observatory who changed the understanding of the stars, eating disorders in older women, Miriam Margolyes and vegan mums. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Miriam Margolyes
Interviewed Guest:
Tom Quinn
Interviewed Guest:
Dava Sobel
Interviewed Guest:
Joanne O'Connell
Interviewed Guest:
Dilys Cluer

Woman's Hour

Hillary Clinton; Inside the Queen's wardrobe; Mirela Sula; Woman on woman sexual assault; Honor Frost

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Hillary Clinton's first speech as presidential nominee; inside the Queen's wardrobe; woman on woman sexual assault; Honor Frost; Mirela Sula and Albanian women. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Interviewed Guest:
Sharon Manitta
Interviewed Guest:
Felicity Spector
Interviewed Guest:
Rebecca Twinley
Interviewed Guest:
Yvonne Traynor
Interviewed Guest:
Alexandra Sofroniew
Interviewed Guest:
Shahidha Bari
Interviewed Guest:
Caroline de Guitaut
Interviewed Guest:
Mirela Sula

Woman's Hour

Natalie Bennett, Bridget Jones, Making underwear, Women and the Russian Revolution, are young people having less sex?

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Natalie Bennett, the outgoing leader of the Green Party, Bridget Jones 20 years on, the Russian Revolution through women's eyes; and are young people having less sex? Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Natalie Bennett
Interviewed Guest:
Viv Groskop
Interviewed Guest:
Hattie Crisell
Interviewed Guest:
undefined Girl On The Net
Interviewed Guest:
Daisy Buchanan

Woman's Hour

Endometriosis, Juliet Butler, Gay parenting

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Endometriosis and the impact on relationships, Juliet Butler on her friendship with conjoined twins Masha and Dasha, and Sarah Hagger-Holt and David Ledain on being a gay parent. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Emma Barnett
Interviewed Guest:
Nicky Hudson
Interviewed Guest:
Juliet Butler
Interviewed Guest:
Sarah Hagger-Holt
Interviewed Guest:
David Ledain

Woman's Hour

Daughters estranged from their mothers, Parenting for self-esteem

Duration: 41 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Daughters who no longer speak to their mothers; Partition and the legacy of trauma across three generations of women; parenting to build self-esteem in children. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Interviewed Guest:
Lynne Jordan
Interviewed Guest:
Suzi Godson
Interviewed Guest:
Emily Cherry

Woman's Hour

Life after Widowhood, Female celebrity feuds

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Three women talk about their experiences of dating again after the death of their partner. And are antifeminist attitudes at work in the reporting of female celebrity feuds? Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Natalie Finn
Interviewed Guest:
Laura Snapes
Interviewed Guest:
Bolu Babalola

Woman's Hour

Women of the United Nations, Madeline Fontaine, Bereavement Support Payment

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Madeline Fontaine on designing costumes for the film Jackie. A mother's account of being a young widow. Muslim women in the US and the women who founded the United Nations. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Interviewed Guest:
Alison Penny
Interviewed Guest:
Georgia Elms
Interviewed Guest:
Daniella Wells
Interviewed Guest:
Heidi Tworek
Reporter:
Jane Garvey