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What is it like to be a woman in prison?

4/4/2025 • 57 min

The Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood believes “prison isn’t working” for women and wants to reduce the number of female prisoners. So what has gone wrong? Nuala McGovern speaks to Scarlett Roberts who is a former prisoner and is now a Churchill Fellow and to former prisoner Jules Rowan, now a personal trainer, who co-hosts the Life After Prison podcast. They ar… Play episode

Zhenhao Zou case, Sally Phillips, Neonatal Leave,
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson, Anorexia legal case, Feminist yode…
Caitríona Balfe, Child maintenance, Medieval medicine, Kids and happiness
Women and Eid, School Refusal Report, Author Marni Appleton
Weekend Woman’s Hour: Stacey Dooley, Authors Yuan Yang and Sanam Mahloudji…
Stacey Dooley, Lily Gladstone, Ask for Angela, Motherhood
Woman's Hour special: AI and women's health
Disability and domestic abuse, Maternity care failings, Authors Labour MP …
Domestic violence, Women & the gig economy, Boxing, UN leadership
Protests in Turkey, Adolescence, Women in Revolt! exhibition
Weekend Woman’s Hour: Sugababes, Lockdown babies, June Sarpong, History of…
Newborns & communication, Kirsty Coventry, Women in Construction
Disability and maternity care, Ads in mobile games, Nursery costs, Playwri…
June Sarpong, Disability benefit changes, Women war artists
Sugababes, Kate Summerscale & Kamila Shamsie, The History of Abortion
Lockdown babies, Breast cancer study, Femgore, Chess Masters
Weekend Woman's Hour: Sara Davies, Neath RFC tweet, Ramadan health, Franki…
Country singer Lainey Wilson, Sodium Valporate, Women and war in fiction
Endometriosis pill, Bollywood star Radhika Apte, Ramadan health
Employment Rights Bill, SEND, Neath RFC tweet, Spitfire Girls
Businesswoman Sara Davies, Holiday without kids, Restless Leg Syndrome
Toxic Town, Women in counter terrorism policing, Climbing Everest
Weekend Woman’s Hour: Twiggy, Misogyny and boys, Lucy Edwards, Segregation…
Mhairi Black, Women's boxing, Helen Castor and Rosanna Pike on writing his…
Millie Bobby Brown's video, Tuppence Middleton on OCD, 30 years of Lush
New womb cancer swab test, the legacy of the last woman hanged, music from…
Obesity and children, How carers are coping, Lucy Edwards' new book
Twiggy, Trauma cards, Lesbian Lines
Weekend Woman’s Hour: Tamsin Greig and Celia Imrie, Esther Ghey, Nnedi Oko…
Simone Ashley, The Tate brothers, Fostering siblings, Driving instructors
Pornography review, Padel, Esther Ghey, Rory
Tim Westwood, Same Dress Different Bodies, LeighAnn McCready, Fatma Said
Tamsin Greig and Celia Imrie, Carers march, Botox and friendships
Southport dance teacher Leanne Lucas, Indira Varma, German elections, Nned…
Weekend Woman's Hour: Raising the ‘Sen-betweeners’, Signs of teenage expl…
Jess Phillips MP, Luis Rubiales case, author Nussaibah Younis
Sexism in British kitchens, Clueless the musical, Non-harassment orders in…
Women's Tennis, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Formula 1, Lambrini Girls
Afghan government rebel over women's rights, Egg freezing, Indian Sportswo…
Nao, Women in Ukraine, Signs of teenage exploitation
Weekend Woman's Hour: EastEnders 40th anniversary, Grandparenting, Materna…
Hayley Atwell, Grandparenting, Post-natal depression
EastEnders 40th anniversary: A Woman's Hour special
Parole and victims, Met Police vetting, Women’s Prize for Non-fiction
Maternal mental health, Syria's missing, poet Caitlin O'Ryan
England Netball win, Body positivity movement, Author Emilia Hart
Weekend Woman's Hour: Emma Webber & Sinead O'Malley Kumar, Gender Dysphori…
Marisha Wallace on Cabaret, Giving birth in prison, DR Congo, Ethical fash…
Emma Webber & Sinead O'Malley Kumar, Maureen Lipman, Nina Bhadreshwar

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