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🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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The BBC has discovered widespread delays in a scheme designed to tell people whether their partners have a history of being abusive. Known as Clare's Law, people can ask police if their partner has a history of abuse. Home Office guidelines say officers should provide relevant information within 28 days. But Police responses to a BBC News Freedom of Information request suggest some in England and Wales have waited more than two years for responses. Isabella Lowenthal-Isaacs, from Women’s Aid, tells Krupa Padhy about her disappointment in the figures.
There's a call to compensate women caught up in the scandal of faulty breast implants manufactured by a French company. The PIP scandal happened in 2012 when it emerged that the implants were filled with industrial silicone instead of medical grade silicone. The implants are far more likely to rupture than others. MPs on the Women’s and Equalities Committee have been hearing calls for compensation during their inquiry into the health impacts of breast implants and other cosmetic procedures. Jan Spivey from PIP Action Campaign and Professor Carl Heneghan from The Centre for Evidence Based Medicine join us to discuss this.
In some areas of the UK more women than men are going to ice hockey matches. Teams like Coventry Blaze say 60% of their new season ticket holders this year are female. So what’s behind the surge in female fandom? Some say it’s down to an unexpected influence; romance novels featuring ice hockey players. Titles like Icebreaker and Behind the Net, while niche, are proving popular. Sports presenter Katie Shanahan and ice hockey fan Emily Laycock tell us why they think more women are discovering the sport.
Historian and presenter Matthew Sweet discusses his new discovery - unpublished personal diaries of Queen Victoria’s obstetrician that throw light on the inner life and mental health of one of Britain’s most researched monarchs. These mental health struggles come just after the birth of her second child – Bertie - Albert Edward, Prince of Wales – in 1841. Do the descriptions in the diaries indicate Victoria could have been experiencing postpartum psychosis? Sarah Taha, consultant perinatal psychiatrist, gives us her views.
Presenter: Krupa Padhy Producer: Melanie Abbott
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| 0:42.2 | Hello, this is Krupa Pati and you're listening to The Woman's Hour podcast. |
| 0:49.7 | Hello and thank you for being with us. We are more than a decade on since the PIP breast implant scandal, which campaigners say has impacted the lives of tens of thousands of women. |
| 0:55.0 | The implants were banned back in 2010 after it was discovered that they were filled with cheap industrial-grade silicon. |
| 1:02.0 | Two people who have given evidence at an ongoing inquiry into this will tell us why they believe there should be a new report into the scandal and why they say the NHS |
| 1:12.1 | should be compensating women. Also, so much has been written and researched about the life |
| 1:19.1 | of Queen Victoria. Now, never seen before private diaries from her doctor have shed new light |
| 1:25.0 | on the monarch. The medical notes are not just opinion, but factual |
| 1:28.8 | notes about her mental health struggles in the weeks after she gave birth to Bertie. Matthew Sweet, |
| 1:34.6 | the presenter of a new documentary about this Queen Victoria's Nightmares, joins us too. And are you |
| 1:40.8 | an avid romance reader? And if so, have you heard of the books, Icebreaker and Behind the Net? |
| 1:47.2 | These are just two of the titles doing the rounds on Book Talk, which if you don't know is an offshoot of TikTok, |
| 1:53.3 | and it is part of a growing interest in a new genre of writing known as Ice Hockey Romance. |
| 1:59.3 | Some say this might be why more women are attending ice hockey games |
| 2:03.4 | across the country. Sports presenter Katie Shanahan will tell us how and why romance readers are turning |
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