Nadiya Hussain, Actor Kate Fleetwood, 200 marathons in 200 days
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
It’s more than a decade since Nadiya Hussain became a household name after winning the Great British Bake Off. Since then, she’s fronted her own cookery shows, written more than a dozen cookbooks and a series of children’s books. Her latest collection of recipes is called Quick Comforts, and Nadiya joins presenter Clare McDonnell to talk about finding comfort in food, her career so far and lots more.
A series of stories in The Guardian this week are spotlighting the role that domestic abuse plays in suicides - they say the number of women's suicides that are being are linked to domestic abuse is being severely underreported in police statistics. Figures from the National Police Chiefs Council's Domestic Homicide Project have shown for the last two years that there were more victims of domestic abuse who took their own lives in England and Wales than were killed by their partner. Research by a suicide prevention programme in Kent led by Tim Woodhouse is suggesting the figures could be much higher. We hear from Tim and Dr Hannana Siddiqui, Director of Policy, Campaigns and Research at Southall Black Sisters.
Actor Kate Fleetwood talks about her latest role as the angry, vindictive Witch in Stephen Sondheim’s fairy tale musical Into the Woods. She’ll be singing live and telling Clare about playing the villain, the challenges of this demanding singing role and why Shakespeare holds an important part of her life.
Megan Boxall is running the coastline of Britain, hoping to complete 200 marathons in 200 days. She joins us live from the Scottish Highlands - the latest stage of her challenge - to update us on her progress so far and the people she has met along the way.
Presenter: Clare McDonnell Producer: Kirsty Starkey
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| 0:55.4 | company. Nadia Hussein became a household name when she won the Great British Bake Off a decade ago. |
| 1:01.7 | And since then, she's brought her cooking flair to TV shows and over a dozen cookbooks. Along the way, |
| 1:08.0 | she's been refreshingly honest about her own mental health and how, as a Muslim woman, there's an expectation she should maybe show gratitude for the success she's achieved. Well, Nadia has a brand new cookbook out about comfort food that can be cooked quickly and eaten slowly. Nadia joins me in the studio. I would love to hear from you this morning, |
| 1:28.5 | though, tell me about the food that has brought you comfort and solace and what memory it triggers. |
| 1:34.6 | Maybe it was a difficult personal moment and that dish at that time helped restore you. |
| 1:41.2 | And maybe it's special because of the person who cooked it for you. |
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| 2:02.8 | research has suggested official statistics are massively underreporting the data and could track |
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