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Motherland spin-off Amandaland is back for a second series, starring Lucy Punch as Amanda and Joanna Lumley as her frosty mum, Felicity. Nua...

Megan Boxall is a 33-year-old runner who has been running clockwise around the coast of Britain, aiming to complete the equivalent of 200 ma...

Motherland spin-off Amandaland is back for a second series, starring Lucy Punch as Amanda and Joanna Lumley as her frosty mum Felicity. Nual...

A BBC investigation has uncovered misleading fitness adverts featuring AI‑generated characters that breach UK advertising rules. If you use...

A BBC News investigation exposes an unregulated, booming industry of so-called baby sleep influencers or "sleep consultants". Some people wh...

We all have to have difficult conversations at some point in our lives. We have them at work, at home, and with friends and family. So why d...

Dame Maureen Lipman joins Chloe Tilley to talk about Allegra, the joyful new musical play that begins a nationwide tour just two days after...

According to the latest Department of Education data, more than 7000 children under six were suspended in the 24 /25 school year in England...

Shrink Solves Murder is the first novel by the artist and psychotherapist Philippa Perry. She talks to Anita Rani about her new book and pro...

Dame Maureen Lipman joins Chloe Tilley to talk about Allegra, the joyful new musical play that begins a nationwide tour just two days after...

King Charles and Queen Camilla are on their four-day state visit to the United States. Today King Charles will address the US Congress. But...

£30m is being invested in the games industry in the UK, mainly to help develop ideas for the next big games. But will this government fundin...

Melanie C has been a household name for the past three decades, since the Spice Girls burst into the charts with Wannabe and went on to beco...

According to NHS England, every maternity service in England will need to meet new clinical standards set out by the NHS to significantly re...

Melanie C has been a household name for the past three decades, since the Spice Girls burst into the charts with Wannabe and went on to beco...

Naomi Parry, the costume designer who worked closely with Amy Winehouse to craft her iconic style, has this week been vindicated in a high c...

Earlier this year, the UK lost its status as a measles-free country after a rise in deaths from the disease and a fall in the proportion of...

New analysis from the Royal Society for Public Health shows a 14% reduction in the number of public toilets across England since 2016. The r...

The singer-songwriter Jessie Ware's new album, Superbloom, was released this week. As well as being known for her music, Jessie's family’s p...

The 22nd BAFTA Games Awards will take place at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre in London tonight. Datshiane Navanayagam is joined...

Today is primary school offer day in England and Wales, when parents will be finding out where their children might be starting school in Se...

A renewed Women’s Health Strategy for England has been published today. The first Women’s Health Strategy came out in July 2022 under the Co...

A public inquiry has concluded "catastrophic" failures by the parents of the Southport killer and various agencies meant the murders of thre...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's 16 years in power are coming to an end after an election that saw massive voter turnout. Orbán was s...

Student Jodie Morrow tells Nuala McGovern about her ordeal of being arrested after her stalker falsely accused her of stalking him. He has n...

Police in the Netherlands have taken the unusual step of launching a campaign on social media to track down women and girls who were blackma...

The Church of England is planning to issue an apology for its role in forced adoption, according to a draft seen by the BBC. During the 1950...

Student Jodie Morrow talks to Nuala McGovern about her ordeal of being arrested after her stalker falsely accused her of stalking him. He ha...

Women in Northern Ireland who have had a miscarriage - along with their partners - will now be entitled to two weeks paid leave. The governm...

Easter Monday in the Christian calendar means Christ is risen and symbolises a shift from darkness and death to life, hope and light. We’re...

Childhood epilepsy, medical treatment, and the power of a mother and son working together. Filmmaker Emma Matthews and her son Louis Petit h...

Nasa's Artemis II spacecraft has blasted off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida and is now orbiting the Earth in the first crewed miss...

The week marks one month since the United States and Israel attacked Iran. We take a look at the impact the resulting war has had on the wom...

The music in this broadcast has been removed from this podcast for rights reasons. The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland said last wee...

Christina Koch is ready to make history. She is one of the four astronauts of Artemis 2 which is set to head around the Moon in the next few...

Dame Sarah Mullally is installed as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church’s 1,400‑year history. What unique skills and pri...

A young woman in the US has successfully sued Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp - and Google, owner of YouTube, over...

It's OIivia Dean's world and we are all just living in it. The 27-year-old music star picked up three MOBO awards last night to add to her f...

Today marks a historic moment for the Church of England as Dame Sarah Mullally is installed as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury in...

Naz Shah has been the MP for Bradford West since 2015, after a battle with George Galloway’s Respect Party, but her personal journey into po...

NB The music in this broadcast has been removed from the podcast for rights reasons We start today's programme with the sad news that Dame J...

New regulations state that every team in FIFA's women's football tournaments must include at least one female head coach or assistant coach....

New regulations state that every team in FIFA's women's football tournaments must include at least one female head coach or assistant coach....

**This programme has been edited since originally broadcast** This month a legal case in the High Court has shed light on an industry of so-...

According to the UK Health Security Agency, five new cases of meningitis have been confirmed in Kent. Two people have died in the outbreak....

Researchers in Australia have developed an AI tool that means a routine mammogram can also monitor your heart health. The study, published i...

It was an historic night for Ireland and for those watching in her home town of Killarney in County Kerry, as Jessie Buckley became the firs...

The health secretary Wes Streeting has appointed senior midwife Donna Ockenden to lead a review into maternity and neonatal services at Leed...

New figures out from Thames Valley Air Ambulance show that women are less likely than men to receive bystander CPR, with one in three female...

Ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Dunblane massacre on Friday, presenter Anita Rani speaks to three women whose lives changed for ever th...