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Woman's Hour

Pornhub restrictions, Home birth suspensions, Jessica Curry, Winter Olympics

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Pornhub has announced it will restrict access to its website in the UK from next week, blaming the tougher age checks which have been introduced for explicit sites. Back in October, their parent company Aylo said the law change, which was made under the UK's Online Safety Act, had caused traffic to their website to fall by 77%. As of next week, only people who have previously made a Pornhub account will be able to access its content. Nuala McGovern discusses the implications of these changes with Dr Fiona Vera-Gray, the author of Women On Porn and Professor of Sexual Violence and the Co-Director of the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit at London Metropolitan University.

The decision by Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to suspend home birth services is to be challenged in the High Court. The suspension was announced back in November after the trust cited safety concerns raised by their staff and dealing with more complex births. Now a coalition including the charity Birthrights is taking the trust's leaders to judicial review asking them to reconsider the suspension. Nuala is joined by Birthrights' legal lead Laura Mullarkey and Matthew Hill, Health Correspondent for the BBC in the South West.

This weekend gamers and music fans alike will be headed to 'BAFTA Games in Concert' which is starting its tour in London. It's celebrating two decades of BAFTA-nominated and award-winning games music and the composers behind these hugely popular gaming soundtracks. One of those composers is Jessica Curry. Ten years ago her score for the videogame 'Everybody's Gone to the Rapture' won a BAFTA Games music award, the first for a solo woman. Jessica tells Nuala why her music channels grief, love, and loss and the impact music can have on gamers.

It's a week to go until the Winter Olympics gets underway in Italy. With a record 47% of female athletes competing, the games will be the most gender-balanced in Winter Olympic history. Two women who are gearing up to cover every twist and turn of these Games are former two-time Winter Olympic snowboarder and broadcaster Aimee Fuller and Jeanette Kwayke, who'll be fronting the BBC's coverage as part of an all-female line up alongside Clare Balding and Hazel Irvine.

Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Andrea Kidd

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts.

0:05.7

Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast, The Traitors Uncloaked.

0:12.7

But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like Ellis and John's Saturday bonus episodes,

0:18.2

The Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Rylan, and comedy specials

0:22.2

from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffel and Rommashranganathan. However, and maybe I'm biased,

0:27.9

it's really all about the traitors uncoaked. So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and

0:32.6

podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds. Hello, I'm Neula McGovern and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:40.2

Just to say that for rights reasons, the music in the original radio broadcast has been removed for this podcast.

0:46.8

Hello and welcome to the programme.

0:49.1

Olympic Games and video games this hour.

0:51.9

We'll have Olympians in studio.

0:56.3

Snowboarder, Amy Fuller and sprinter,

1:02.8

Jeanette Quatchi, will be broadcasting from Milano Cortina when the Winter Olympics get underway next week.

1:08.6

They will be the most gender-balanced games in winter Olympic history. Also this hour, we have Jessica Curry, the first and only solo woman to win the

1:12.3

BAFTA Games Music Award. There's a concert celebrating her and other games music. We're going to hear

1:18.7

Jessica's story. Also, the pornography site, Pornhub, has announced it will restrict access to its website

1:25.0

in the UK from next week. We're going to discuss its significance in a moment, the significance of that move.

1:31.7

And a high court challenge to the suspension of home births in Gloucester we also want to talk about.

1:37.9

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