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🗓️ 8 August 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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It's the final day of Woman's Hour's Listener Week, where all the topics in the programme have been decided by YOU!
Listener Brenda wrote in about her situation: “I would love to hear you talking about a mother's play-book or instruction manual for getting through cancer. I would love to know how others are doing it.” Ailsa McDonagh also got in touch after an on-air shout out. She has been living with cancer for almost 10 years and received her diagnosis when her children were aged one and three. Both Brenda and Ailsa join Anita Rani to discuss.
Therapist Cate Campbell joins Anita to offer advice to a listener considering radical solutions for her sexless marriage.
Woman’s Hour listener Kudzai wrote to us about hybrid working. She has the option to work from home but she chooses to go in every day, and she’s been wondering what impact those choices have, especially for younger women just starting out in their careers. Kudzai speaks to Anita along with listener, El, who embraces the benefits of working from home. They’re also joined by Rebecca Florisson from the Work Foundation at Lancaster University.
Listeners Yara and Davina are an art collective, working in a unique job share to create socially engaged public art. They contacted us to highlight their work and explore the issues that come alongside working in the non-commercial art sector, being mothers and working part time.
And what is Pickleball? Listener Caroline got in touch to say that taking up the sport in her 40s has been “lifechanging”, helping her to navigate grief and build resilience and self-belief. It just so happens it is also the Pickleball English Open this weekend, so Caroline joins us along with Karen Mitchell from Pickleball England to discuss the sport and its growing popularity.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Corinna Jones
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
0:05.1 | Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
0:10.4 | Good morning and welcome to the programme and the final day of Listener Week. |
0:15.7 | What do you say to your children after a cancer diagnosis? |
0:19.8 | Just one of the questions from you that we will be |
0:22.4 | discussing today. Two young women will be questioning and talking about the pros and cons of |
0:27.3 | hybrid working should they be in the office every day or is working from home a few days a week |
0:32.3 | more beneficial. Yara and Davina will tell us about their unique job share as an art collective. |
0:38.3 | Pickleball. Have you heard of it? A bat and ball game that one listener found, life-changing. |
0:43.4 | And this morning we have a very honest and intimate email from a woman saying, |
0:49.5 | Having entered the menopause, I find myself horny quite often. |
0:53.6 | I'm 49 and I love my husband dearly, but frankly |
0:56.7 | he has never been a fulfilling lover. Well, they haven't had sex for eight years and she's now |
1:01.9 | considering an affair. I'll be joined by a sex therapist to discuss her dilemma. But this morning |
1:07.3 | I'd also like to hear your thoughts. Have you been in or are you in a sexless marriage? |
1:13.1 | Have you too contemplated infidelity? |
1:15.2 | Or maybe you've had an affair? |
1:16.4 | How did it impact your relationship? |
1:18.4 | Was it just what you needed? |
1:20.3 | What did you need to consider? |
1:21.8 | Did you confide in anyone? |
1:23.4 | How have you dealt with your sexless marriage? |
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