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Woman's Hour

Riki Lindhome, Dutch appeal, Student loans, Author Lucy Apps

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Police in the Netherlands have taken the unusual step of launching a campaign on social media to track down women and girls who were blackmailed into sharing explicit pictures of themselves on line. Detectives have found 50 alleged victims of the man who has pleaded guilty. They're aged 13 to 20 and include those in the UK. But they believe there may have been many more. Our reporter Anna Holligan, in the Netherlands, has been following this.

Riki Lindhome is a comedy songwriter and actor who went viral for her song Hysteria, about medically induced orgasms, and her break up anthem, So Long Farewell, on behalf of Baroness Schraeder from The Sound of Music. She's also appeared in cult TV series The Big Bang Theory and played therapist Dr Valerie Kinbott in the the hugely popular Netflix sequel to The Addams Family, Wednesday. Currently on stage at the Soho Theatre in London, she talks to presenter Anita Rani about her very personal and poignant one-woman comedy, Dead Inside, which documents her own experiences of infertility and longing for a family as well as having a child through surrogacy. Student loans have made the headlines multiple times this year with critics calling them unfair. But does student debt affect women differently? Amy Brooker from the feminist economics group the Women's Budget Group thinks so. This week she's written a blog post to highlight her own student loan story and why women may be impacted more than men in repaying their loans. This comes as the Government’s Treasury Committee calls for people to share their experiences of student loans. Amy joins us along with Kate Ogden, a Senior Research Economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies who focuses on higher education.

Lucy Apps’ debut novel, Gloria Don’t Speak, has recently been longlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction. The novel paints a tender portrait of 19-year-old Gloria, a young woman with a learning disability. When she forms an unlikely friendship with a man named Jack, it offers her a new sense of connection - but after an act of violence, their relationship is forced to come to an end. Lucy speak to Anita about her book and why she wanted to explore themes of vulnerability, connection, and agency. Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Sarah Jane Griffiths

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BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

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Their company's success helped build a nation.

0:10.9

The company is such a big part of Korea's economy.

0:13.5

But who are the family behind one of the world's tech giants?

0:17.2

They often say, look, we built the nation.

0:19.2

And without us, South Korea as it exists today,

0:22.6

would simply not be here. Inheritance, Samsung, explores the real-life dramas of the Lee family

0:28.3

and their company. They are the equivalent of royalty. Listen first on BBC sounds.

0:34.1

Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. Just to say that for

0:39.8

rights reasons, the music in the original radio broadcast has been removed for this podcast. Good

0:45.6

morning and welcome to the program. Actress and comedian Ricky Lindholm has a one woman show

0:51.6

that will have you laughing and crying at the same time. It's called

0:55.5

Dead Inside and she tells the story of her desperate journey to try and become a mother. It's raw

1:01.4

and hilarious and she'll be here to tell us all about it. Are you someone with student loan debt?

1:08.5

How are you managing it? Do you worry about the debt your children have acquired?

1:12.3

Well, we'll be understanding how student loans impact women's lives.

1:16.4

And as always, we would like you to get in touch with your own experiences.

1:20.3

84844 is the text number.

1:22.6

And a debut novel that's been long listed for the women's prize, Gloria Don't Speak,

1:27.1

is a story that centers a woman with learning the women's prize, Gloria Don't Speak, is a story that

1:27.8

centres a woman with learning disabilities. Lucy Apps, the author who is also a GP, will be here

1:34.0

to tell us about that. Get in touch with us about anything you hear on the program. You are always

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