The Women's Podcast

The Women's Podcast


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Laura Dockrill: Love, longing & postpartum psychosis
July 11, 2024

Laura Dockrill was just 14 years old when she first set eyes on her husband, Maccabees guitarist Hugo White. The pair quickly began an intense relationship, exchanging carefully curated mixtapes and letters doused in Body Shop perfume. Despite a longing o

Fiona McPhillips: When We Were Silent
July 04, 2024

In this episode, author and journalist Fiona McPhillips talks to Risn Ingle about her new novel, When We Were Silent. Its a thriller set in a Dublin convent school, where a culture of silence and abuse is rampant. The story was partly inspired by the 2

Ready For It? It’s our Taylor Swiftathon
June 27, 2024

The Queen of Pop, Taylor Swift, is finally back in Dublin this weekend, bringing her Eras tour to more than 150 thousand fans at the Aviva Stadium over three nights. To celebrate the singer's return, we’ve gathered a panel of Swifties to talk about her mu

Why engineering needs more women
June 20, 2024

Last year, just 23% of all engineering graduates in Ireland were women, while female engineers currently represent just 12% of the profession. Orlagh Costello, an engineer, coach, and speaker, is on a mission to change this and to encourage more women int

Clit Bait: Everything you need to know about your clitoris
August 10, 2023

In this episode, we have two experts on hand to share their extensive knowledge of the clitoris, a much ignored and often overlooked part of the female body. Urologist Dr Rachel Rubin and author of Vagina Obscura Rachel E Gross join Risn Ingle to expl

Ejaculate Responsibly: A whole new way to think about abortion
August 03, 2023

Gabrielle Stanley Blair on why the conversation on abortion needs a crucial refocus

Remembering Sinéad O’Connor
July 27, 2023

We pay tribute to the Irish singer who died at the age of 56

Caitlin Moran: What About Men?
July 20, 2023

A regular on The Women's Podcast, journalist and author Caitlin Moran was in Dublin recently as part of her latest book tour. As someone who regularly discusses the problems of girls and women in public, Moran has often been confronted with the quest

Dina Kraft: My Friend Anne Frank
July 13, 2023

In this episode, writer and journalist Dina Kraft tells the story of Holocaust survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar and her childhood best friend, Anne Frank. Hannah and Anne met in Amsterdam as young girls and spent many happy years playing together, before the r

I Will Be Good: Peig McManus
July 06, 2023

I Will Be Good is the new memoir from Peig McManus, an unforgettable Dublin character, who grew up in 1940s Ireland, under the shadow of the Second World War. Now in her 80s, Peig reflects on a life lived boldly even in the face of challenges. In this epi