Yanis Varoufakis, Bonnie Langford, 'Catastrophic' waits for NHS community care, Killer in the House documentary
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Tens of thousands of children in England have spent more than a year waiting for NHS community care, such as hearing services, speech and language therapy and disability support, the BBC has found. Nick Triggle, BBC News Health Correspondent and Harriet Edwards, Strategy Lead at the national disability charity, Sense, join Nuala McGovern to discuss the findings.
Author, economist and politician Yanis Varoufakis joins Nuala to discuss being, as he describes it, raised a misogynist. He also talks about the women in his life that helped change that and what he believes lies behind the growth in misogynist attitudes.
A new ITV crime documentary, Killer in the House, traces the story of one of the most notorious double murder stories in recent UK history, where a respected Northern Irish dentist, Colin Howell, murdered his wife and his lover’s husband, staged it as a double suicide, and evaded justice for nearly twenty years. Howell was never suspected for the murder of Lesley Howell and Trevor Buchanan, until his confession in 2007, implicating his former lover, Hazel Stewart. Lauren Bradford-Clarke, daughter of Lesley and Colin, talks to us about the impact this crime had on her family.
Bonnie Langford has been a British household name for more than 50 years, singing and dancing across many stages in countless musicals, as well as memorable TV roles in EastEnders and Dr Who. Now she's playing Mrs Bird in the much-acclaimed Paddington The Musical in London's West End. She joins Nuala to discuss the joys of treading the boards with that much-loved, life-sized bear.
Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Simon Richardson
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| 0:46.6 | Hello and welcome to the programme. |
| 0:48.7 | Well, the former Greek finance minister, Janus Varifakis, will be with me today to speak about what he calls his liberation |
| 0:55.1 | from the male chauvinist pig within him. He says as a young boy, he was socialised through |
| 1:00.5 | misogyny and he thinks it's still happening for boys that are growing up now. I'm looking forward |
| 1:05.5 | to speaking with him. And I'd also be curious to hear from some of the men in our audience. |
| 1:10.6 | Have you had to challenge your inner misogynist? |
| 1:13.8 | What made you recognise it? |
| 1:16.1 | And of course, misogyny is not exclusive to men. |
| 1:18.7 | Are you a woman that has realised that you weren't always rooting for the sisterhood? |
| 1:23.6 | That you had to perhaps challenge your prejudice. |
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| 1:33.9 | note, that number, 0300-100-444. Also today, Bonnie Langford, who plays Mrs Bird in Paddington |
| 1:42.5 | The Musical. It has rave reviews. What is it |
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