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Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman's Hour: Amandaland writer Holly Walsh, Impacts of extreme porn, Difficult conversations

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Motherland spin-off Amandaland is back for a second series, starring Lucy Punch as Amanda and Joanna Lumley as her frosty mum, Felicity. Nuala McGovern talks to the show’s award-winning writer and co-creator Holly Walsh about what’s in store for the SoHa crew second time around, as Amanda navigates life as a single mum of teenagers, juggling online influencing and her ‘co-labs’ with her dreams of moving up in the world.

The classically trained pop musician Rosalía topped many end of year polls for her opera-influenced album, Lux. This week she graced the stage at the O2 Arena as her sell-out tour reached London and last week it was announced she'll receive the 2026 Ivor Novello award for International Songwriter of the Year. Pop Critic of The Observer, Kitty Empire joins us to profile the artist.

TV personality Vicky Pattison, psychotherapist Gabrielle Rifkind and comedian Helen Thorn join Nuala to discuss tackling difficult conversations in our personal lives.

The mainstreaming of violent sexual content is reshaping society, according to Clare McGlynn, a Professor of Law at Durham University, whose first book, Exposed, was published yesterday. In Clare’s view, the problem isn’t porn per se, it’s patriarchal porn - pornographic content that was once niche and difficult to find, including incest, racism and rape, that has been normalised and is widely consumed. Clare joins Anita Rani to discuss the harms of extreme pornography.

It was Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday on Friday 8 May and the BBC has launched a week-long celebration of his work and legacy. So we wanted to take this moment to shine a spotlight on women working in nature programmes. Sophie Darlington was one of the first female wildlife cinematographers and her work has earned her a BAFTA and an Emmy. She joins Nuala to talk about her work and Sir David.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Simon Richardson

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It's right foot goes for goal.

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And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories.

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The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession.

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And she's had to live with that.

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So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion.

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Sort of expecting that every week now.

0:46.1

Hello and welcome to the programme, bringing you highlights from Woman's Hour. This week,

0:52.8

we've a profile of music's woman of the moment, Rosalia. As her world tour comes to London,

1:00.1

critic Kitty Empire explains why she's a pop artist successfully spanning a whole range of musical categories.

1:13.3

She is such good fun. She trained in Flemenko and other classical Spanish forms, but she's combined these with 20th century genres like R&B and hip-hop and a reggaeton. So she's created a very unique sound for herself. We'll also have a guide to having difficult conversations illustrated

1:18.4

by the experiences of real women, including TV and podcast host Vicki Patterson, who opens up

1:24.4

about how hard she found it to talk to her dad about his alcoholism.

1:28.6

Normally I'm quite direct and quite strong, at least I can be.

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