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Why is Jane Austen still so relevant to women today?

12/16/2025 • 56 min

Woman’s Hour celebrates the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth. Nuala McGovern delves into the world that Jane was born into in 1775 to explore why her writing has such a following around the world and still feels so relevant to women today. She is joined by the author Gill Hornby, President of the UK Jane Austen Society, and by Dr Zoe McGee whose book Co… Play episode

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Freebirthing, Author Sarah Mughal Rana, Syria: One year on
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Women leaders, Hair loss, Maria Friedman
Jacinda Ardern, Women leaving teaching, Abuse in sport
Jury-free trials, Endometriosis, WI and transgender women, Scruffy hosting
Friendships with exes, Chef Pam, Economic abuse
Former Finland PM Sanna Marin, HIV and women, Left-Handed Girl
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Adoption, Camille O'Sullivan, Wicked
Femicide, The impact of the Budget on women, Remembering Pam Hogg
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Preventing online abuse, Rage rooms, Puberty and sport, Actor Olivia Willi…
Iron deficiency, Malintzin, Budget lookahead, Frida Kahlo self-portrait
Weekend Woman's Hour: Being fired, Boxer Francesca Hennessy, Women in Camps
Covid Inquiry, Poet Andrea Gibson remembered, Supporting survivors of viol…
Boxer Francesca Hennessy, NEETS, Painter Caroline Walker
Saskia Reeves, Childminders, Women in Camps
The pension gap, Rape trial delays, Author Harriet Lane
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Illegal weight-loss drugs, Actor Jackie Clune, Birth scrolls
Christine Flack, New Ofsted school grading, Emma Barnett
Margaret Atwood memoir, Cat Burns, Choking Porn Law, Dame Elaine Paige
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Cat Burns, Pakistan's period tax, Mary Earps
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Teenage boys and AI, Lynsey Addario, Choking porn law
Fertility treatment, Bella Culley, Traitors' fashion
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France rape law change, Women and alcohol dependency, Amina Khayyam
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Petula Clark, Teenagers and online coercion, Clocks going back
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First mum in space, Tiggy Walker, Recruiting women to Formula 1
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