Farah Naz, the aunt of murdered law graduate Zara Aleena, tells of her concerns that her niece’s killer has allegedly been caught having sex with a prison worker. Jordan McSweeney is serving a life sentence at high security Belmarsh Prison in South London.
For the first time, Royal Mail has dedicated set of stamps to a female pop group, to commemorate 30 years since the Spice Girls formed in 1994. We talk to Lauren Bravo, a culture journalist and DJ Yinka Bokinni.
We hear about the start of a new landmark Radio 4 documentary series called Child which follows a child’s development from fertilisation to first birthday from its creator India Rakusen.
There’s been a surge in the number of scabies cases and experts are warning there’s an acute shortage of treatments which is turning it into a major public health threat. Emma Barnett talks to Dr Tess McPherson about who is most at risk from catching it and how best to avoid it.
And we talk to barrister Harriet Johnson about a study which suggests rape convictions are 20% less likely in cases where victims give pre-recorded evidence.
Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Manager: Emma Harth
Primodos debate, Rebuilding my life: Wiz Wharton, Cricket umpire pay
Listener phone in - should there be a Minister for Men? Could the role ultimately help women?
Nick Fletcher MP, Rebuilding my life: Martine Wright, Food writer Bee Wilson, Filmmaker Celine Song
Radioactive chapatis, Hostage negotiation, Non-birth mothers, Japanese women in politics
DIY fertility tests, Sudan conflict, Rebuilding my life
Hostage negotiator Nicky Perfect, Sarah Beeny, Chelsea Women Manager Emma Hayes, Mothers with bipolar, Bad lists
Emma Hayes, manager of Chelsea FC Women, Karis Anderson on Tina Turner, Rose Matafeo and Emma Sidi on Starstruck
Scottish rape survivors, Writer Natasha Walter, New research on the Y chromosome and male infertility
Sarah Beeny, Rebekah Staton, Spanish football kiss update, Deborah Bonello on Narcas
Lists: How and why we make them, The psychology behind list-making, Lists in the public domain, Music and lists
Listener Week: Psychedelics, Strongwomen, Kleptomania, Living funerals, Being a refugee, Women in heavy metal
Listener Week: Generative AI, Female thatchers, Big noses, Communal living
Listener Week: Psychedelics, Peripheral friendship, Posthumous conception, Beach Guardian
Listener Week: Is it ever good to give up on dreams? Working class women & university, Living funerals
Listener Week: Ukrainian women soldiers, Long lost families, Strong women, Refugees, Eating Alone
Listener Week: Women's World Cup final, Shoplifting, Heavy metal
Women's World Cup final, Surviving a WWII Japanese prison camp, Care leavers, 'Older-age orphans', Nasa astronaut Christina Koch
Ellen White, How to ask for a pay rise, astronaut Christina Koch, Morning-after pill
Lionesses' legacy, Sarah Greene, Care leavers, Abortion
Martine McCutcheon, anxiety & the perimenopause, Who is Fani Willis? Period huts in Nepal
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