Source: The King’s Fund
Host Helen McKenna speaks with Professor Dame Lesley Regan and Dr Janine Austin Clayton about women’s health journeys from start to finish. They explore why women can struggle to get medical professionals to listen to them and the impact this has on diagnosis and treatment, as well as the mental and physical effects on women themselves.
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Source: How to Fail With Elizabeth Day Podcast
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is a podcast that celebrates the things that haven’t gone right. Every week, a new interviewee explores what their failures have taught them.
In this episode Holly Willoughby, co-presenter of ITV’s This Morning, joins Elizabeth to talk about her failure to be present, her failure to live by her own set of beliefs and falling into the trap of meeting other people’s expectations and her failure ‘to be an individual’.
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Source: The King’s Fund podcast
Andrea Sutcliffe CBE, Chief Executive and Registrar of the Nursing and Midwifery Council, talks with Helen McKenna about what it takes to cultivate safe, kind and effective care, getting regulation right, and what meaningful co-production with the public looks like.
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Source: Women’s Prize for Fiction Podcast
What better way to discover new books than through recommendations from the shelves of inspiring women?
Listen now, as award-winning journalist and author Elizabeth Day shares with the Women’s Prize Podcast the five books that shaped her.
Source: Women’s Prize for Fiction Podcast
Multi award-winning singer songwriter Emeli Sandé joins host Zawe Ashton to tell her how women’s writing supported her through her journey from quiet medical student to chart-topping megastar.
Source: Women’s Prize for Fiction Podcast
Writer, broadcaster and bestselling author Afua Hirsch joins host Yomi Adegoke for this ‘Bookshelfie’ episode of the Women’s Prize Podcast. As well as discussing her five favourite books by women, Afua talks about finding her own role and place within her Ghanaian heritage and why she is so “passionate about children’s literature being genuinely representative and reflective of our stories”.
Source: The King’s Fund podcast
The Health and Care Bill could lead to major changes in how health care is organised in England. But what is the Bill ultimately trying to achieve and how will it make a difference to the care we receive?
Siva Anandaciva sits down with Richard Murray, Chief Executive of The King’s Fund, and Dame Ruth Carnall, former Chief Executive of the NHS in London, to make sense of the Bill, how these changes will be implemented and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
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Source: Thinking Beyond Boundaries (Making More Health) Podcast Series by the NHS Confederation
Throughout this podcast series, Michael Wood, head of health economic partnerships at the NHS Confederation, will be interviewing a number of Making More Health Fellows – celebrating their achievements, discovering what drove them personally and discussing the particular role social entrepreneurs play in fostering long-term change.
In this episode learn how one woman’s passion for motorbikes led to the transformation of health access for rural communities in Africa.
As a former motorcycle racer, Andrea Coleman, founder and chief executive of Two Wheels for Life and co-founder of Riders for Health, has dedicated her life to using motorcycles for humanitarian causes. Listen in to hear how Andrea has harnessed her passions to optimise healthcare services by providing transport logistics in low-resource settings to ensure that patients receive the care and treatment they deserve.
Source: Women’s Prize for Fiction Podcast
Zawe Ashton, acclaimed actress, director, playwright and author, hosts Season Four of the chart-topping Women’s Prize for Fiction Podcast. The new Women’s Prize Podcast season continues to celebrate the best fiction written by women, by interviewing inspirational women about the books that have most influenced their life and career.
Radio DJ and TV presenter Edith Bowman talks to Zawe Ashton about their shared teenage obsession with Marilyn Monroe, being part of the early days of MTV UK, and how Alice Walker’s The Colour Purple changed her life.
Over her long and impressive career in broadcasting, Edith has acted as a touchstone and a guide into music, cinema and the media world for so many people. From her early days on Hit List UK for MTV, to bringing the nation together for huge communal events like Glastonbury or The Baftas – and now through her music and film podcast, Soundtracking.
Source: The Reading Ramble podcast, Lancashire Libraries
This episode of The Reading Ramble podcast features an interview with bestselling author TM Logan, author of The Catch, The Holiday, 29 Seconds and Lies.
