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🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Listener Week continues on Woman's Hour as we bring your stories, ideas and the issues you want to hear about to the air.
Carola got in touch to ask if we could find out more about the benefits of testosterone for post-menopausal women. Dr Joyce Harper, Professor of Reproductive Science at the Institute for Women’s Health at University College London, joins Nuala McGovern to discuss the evidence. When we think about children in situations of domestic abuse, it’s often young children we think of - but what about adult children? We received a letter from a listener telling us about a dilemma she is facing. After previously being in an abusive relationship with the father of her four adult children, she’s now considering whether to tell them that their parents’ relationship was coercive. Gemma Sherrington, CEO of Refuge, and coercive control expert Dr Gemma Katz join us to discuss the issues around a parent deciding whether to be honest with their grown-up children or continue to protect them from their reality. Jess wrote in to tell us about a poem she came across on social media about the post-partum period, calling it “absolutely beautiful”. She added: “There are hundreds of comments across Instagram and TikTok of mothers feeling exactly the same way. Please check it out, I would love to hear more from this poet.” We’ve tracked her down and her name is Amy Williams. She joins us to perform the poem live in the studio. Listener Sarah Hutchinson wants to know more about dreams. Specifically, why she has been having more vivid, memorable dreams during the recent heatwaves, and whether women’s experience of dreaming is linked to the menstrual cycle? Sarah joins Nuala along with Caroline Horton, Professor of Sleep and Cognition and director of the DrEAMSLab at Bishop Grosseteste University. And listener Heather tells us what it was like setting up one of the first dating agencies in the 1980s, aimed at helping people in rural communities find love. Presented by: Nuala McGovern Produced by: Sarah Jane Griffiths and Di McGregor
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
0:05.6 | Hello, this is Neula McGovern, and you're listening to The Woman's Hour podcast. |
0:10.7 | Hello and welcome. |
0:12.7 | Listener Week continues, where the program is decided by you. |
0:16.6 | Thanks to those who have taken the time to share your ideas. |
0:22.0 | So we have coming up. |
0:25.2 | One listener, Carla, wants to know more about testosterone, |
0:28.1 | a wonder drug for those going through the menopause or another over-hyped supplement. |
0:31.5 | Carla says one friend using it has experienced better orgasms, |
0:35.5 | but has also grown a mustache we're going to discuss. |
0:39.5 | Also, another listener got in touch wanting us to find the poet Amy Williams and ask her to |
0:44.3 | perform her viral hit poem six to eight weeks. It's about that time after giving birth. |
0:50.3 | So we did track Amy down and she will be in the Woman's Hour studio this hour. |
0:55.8 | We also heard from a woman who was in an abusive relationship. She has never spoken to her |
1:01.3 | children about how her husband treated her and she wonders if others have also gone through this. |
1:07.4 | She also asks, how can you broach that discussion with now adult children? |
1:12.1 | There is a lot of stake, so we will try and get her some answers. |
1:15.6 | We have a matchmaker joining us. |
1:18.6 | Heather tried to find love for lonely farmers in the 80s. |
1:23.1 | I'm wondering, how do you know who will make a good match? |
1:26.8 | We'll hear her stories of success |
1:28.3 | and of a couple of failures. Have you ever had experience of a matchmaker now? It can be |
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