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Welcome to Late Night Woman's Hour with me, Emma Barnett.

Each week we bring together three brilliant women to talk about life, work, love, possibly some sex, culture and maybe some politics.

Everything that matters, of course. Nothing off limits.

With me today, perched on the red velvet chairs of a seriously historic London pub,

lots of Toby Jugs in a sentence, are three women doing vital things. Now, who've we got?

B Appleby, editor of the female lead, a non-profit organisation that celebrates female achievement

and diversity. She is also the author of the children's book, What is feminism? Why do we need it?

Quite. Amvreen Razia is the creator, writer and star of the BBC 3 show, Anzlo Diaries,

for which she won a debut writer's award at the Edinburgh TV Festival this year.

Her latest play is Pot, which focuses on teenagers in the UK care system

and the risks they face of being drawn into

gangs. And Iona Bain set up the Young Money blog in 2011 with the aim of helping her

generation be smarter about money. She won freelancer of the Year Award in 2018 and is the

author of Spare Change, How to Save More Budget and Be be happy with your finances. Iona, you have

entered my life far too late. Thank you to all of you for joining me and all of us. How to bring

up the M word then, Iona. Money. Are we any good at it yet as women? We're getting better at it.

In fact, I've seen an explosion in the number of women who want to talk about money

in the last few years. And it's such a change from when I first started in this area, where it was

seen as this rather cringy topic that women and generally young people just did not feel

comfortable about. I like the fact that women are grouped with young people.

It's a subgroup of society that can't get paid.

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