Podcasts by Womans Hour Power List 2014 – Game Changers
Which ten women in the UK have done most to game-change the way power operates in the UK, whether in culture, business, politics or campaigns? Emma Barnett, chairs our 2014 panel. From BBC Radio 4
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Power List - Game Changers Edition 3 from 2014-04-09T12:12
The Woman's Hour Power List 2014 - Game Changers was finally revealed. Hear Emma Barnett, Jenni Murray, Jane Garvey and our number one Game Changer reflect on the top ten, exclusively on this ...
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Power List - Game Changers Edition 2 from 2014-04-03T20:25
With the final Power List meeting completed, how do our judges feel about the top ten Game Changers list? Emma Barnett, Reni Eddo-Lodge and Rachel Johnson reveal some of the emotion behind the ...
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Power List - Game Changers Edition 1 from 2014-03-19T13:31
Chair of 2014's Power List, Emma Barnett, takes us through the latest deliberations for this year's top ten Game Changers. What is a Game Changer exactly? Who are the women who could be defined...
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Lady Barbara Judge from 2013-12-16T15:53
Lady Barbara Judge CBE has been a pioneer for women in the worlds of law, banking and business, and is known as one of the best connected women in Britain. She is Chairman Emerita of the UK Atom...
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Sara Thornton from 2013-12-11T12:30
Number 18 on our Woman's Hour Power List, Sara Thornton, Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police joins Jenni to talk about what drew her to policing 27 years ago, the changing culture for women ...
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Marisa Drew from 2013-12-09T10:31
Marisa Drew works at Credit Suisse where she is the company’s most senior female investment banker in Europe, responsible for multi-billion pound deals. She talks to Jane Garvey about her career...
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Power Lister Baroness Hale from 2013-11-28T13:13
Lady Hale is Deputy President of the Supreme Court. Her role makes her the most senior female judge in British legal history and she remains the first and only woman to sit on the UK's highest c...
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Louise Casey November 25th 2013 from 2013-11-25T13:38
Louise Casey is Director General of the Troubled Families Unit, charged with helping some of the country’s most in need and vulnerable people. She has spent her career in social policy and h...
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Lady Helen Hamlyn from 2013-11-20T12:06
Helen Hamlyn is one of Britain's best known philanthropists. In 1984 her husband, the late publisher Paul Hamlyn gave her her own foundation for her 50th birthday - The Helen Hamlyn Trust. It su...
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Pinky Lilani OBE; from 2013-11-18T12:31
Woman's Hour Power Lister Pinky Lilani on the importance of making connections with others.
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Ann Cairns from 2013-11-13T14:52
Ann is the daughter of a Newcastle shoemaker, became one of the first women to be qualified to work on offshore oil and gas rigs and, after a successful career in banking, she now works at the f...
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Professor Dame Carol Black; from 2013-11-11T16:18
Dame Professor Carol Black is the country’s leading expert adviser on health and work. The principal of Newnham College Cambridge, she was a consultant rheumatologist and a former President of t...
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Dido Harding from 2013-11-05T11:44
Dido Harding has been the CEO of TalkTalk Group for just over three years, having previously worked for top retailers like Sainsburys and Tesco. She’s keen to make sure that her workforce is as...
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Professor Sue Bailey from 2013-11-01T13:05
Professor Sue Bailey talks about her work as a child and adolescent forensic psychiatrist.
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Dame Julie Moore from 2013-10-31T13:27
Dame Julie Moore is Chief Executive of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. She spent ten years in clinical practice before moving into nursing management. She became a director...
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Cressida Dick from 2013-10-30T11:13
Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick serves as the most senior female officer within the Metropolitan Police, a rank equivalent to that of Chief Constable outside London. During the Olympic and ...
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Dr. Clare Gerada from 2013-10-22T14:04
Clare Gerada is a GP and Chair of the Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners, a position she holds until November. A vocal defender of the NHS, she sprang to prominence as a leadi...
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Dame Vivien Duffield from 2013-09-26T13:17
Philanthropist Dame Vivien Duffield inherited a vast fortune in 1979 after the death of her father Sir Charles Clore, the retail tycoon who owned Selfridges, and became Chair of the Clore Founda...
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Yvette Cooper MP from 2013-09-26T12:12
Since becoming an MP, Yvette Cooper has been tipped for high office, becoming the first female Chief Secretary to the Treasury in Tony Blair’s government. She was also the first minister to take...
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Lady Justice Arden from 2013-09-26T11:36
Lady Justice Arden sits on the Court of Appeal and is the UK's second most senior female judge. Twenty years ago she was the first woman to be appointed to the High Court’s Chancery Division, th...
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Harriet Harman MP from 2013-09-26T10:10
Harriet Harman, Labour's deputy leader and Power Lister, talks to Jane Garvey from the party's annual conference about her life in politics.
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Jasmine Whitbread from 2013-07-31T14:03
Jasmine Whitbread, the chief executive of Save the Children International, left her highly paid job in the commercial sector to work in the voluntary sector. She discusses what motivated her mov...
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Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley from 2013-07-24T09:50
Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley is a philanthropist and The Shirley Foundation is one of the top 50 grant-giving foundations in Britain. She arrived in Britain on the Kinderstransport in 1939, ag...
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Professor Dame Sally Davies from 2013-07-23T15:30
Professor Dame Sally Davies is the Chief Medical Officer for England and the first woman to fill this post. She guides government decisions on diverse subjects such as superbugs, drug trials and...
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Karren Brady from 2013-07-22T16:22
Karren Brady is well known as the right hand woman to Sir Alan Sugar on TV’s The Apprentice, and also as a formidable force in business – standing out not only as a huge success, but also as a w...
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How to be a Powerful Woman Films from 2013-07-02T14:14
How to be a Powerful Woman - a series of Woman's Hour Power List films are launched in this live programme, presented by Jane Garvey, from the Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House. Artist Tracey ...
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Sophie Turner Laing from 2013-06-12T14:37
Sophie Turner Laing is the Managing Director, Content of BskyB. She’s responsible for their entertainment and news channels including the likes of Sky 1 and Atlantic. As one of the 100 most ...
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Ann Widdecombe&Fines Unmarried Mothers in China from 2013-06-06T13:21
Ann Widdecombe, fines for unmarried mothers in China, US author Curtis Sittenfeld and the proposed anti-social behaviour bill.
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Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson from 2013-05-23T10:50
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson reveals how life as a top athlete helped her prepare for the rough and tumble of politics and how she manages to persuade her 11 year old daughter to sit quietly thr...
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Joanna Lumley from 2013-05-07T12:08
Joanna Lumley is best known as the champagne-swilling fashion luvvie Patsy in the television series Absolutely Fabulous. However, alongside acting she is also known for her modelling, charitable...
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Helena Morrissey from 2013-04-11T11:32
Helena Morrissey is the Chief Executive of her own investment company and the founder of the 30 per cent club, and a Woman's Hour Powerlister. She commented on the latest research by the Cranfie...
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Dame Sue Ion from 2013-04-05T11:35
Dame Sue Ion has spent her life working in engineering. She’s been involved in shaping the UK’s energy policy for the future and been a prominent figure in the UK nuclear industry for decades. ...
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Lucy Heller, Mar 28th 2013 from 2013-03-28T12:35
Lucy Heller is the Chief Executive of ARK, an organisation that oversee the running of 18 academies in disadvantaged communities throughout the UK. She is responsible for a model of education wh...
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Baroness Sue Campbell from 2013-03-18T14:37
Baroness Sue Campbell has been Chair of UK Sport for ten years now. Also Chair of Youth Sport, a former England netball international, PE teacher and university lecturer, Sue's whole life has be...
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Nicola Shindler from 2013-02-22T11:45
Nicola Shindler started her career in 1993 at Granada Television and eventually became script editor on crime drama Cracker. She went on to become an Assistant Producer on the BBC’s Our Friends ...
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Frances O'Grady from 2013-02-19T12:34
Frances O’Grady took up her post as the General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress last month, the first woman to hold that post in its 145 year history. Last week the panel for the Woman’s H...
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Tessa Ross from 2013-02-14T12:32
Jenni interviews Tessa Ross, Controller of Film and Drama at Channel 4 who is on the Woman's Hour power list.
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Rt Hon Theresa May MP from 2013-02-13T13:51
Home Secretary Theresa May has been named by the Power List judges as the most powerful woman in politics in Britain today. Overall she was only pipped to the number one slot by Her Majesty The ...
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Heather Rabbatts from 2013-02-12T14:44
Heather Rabbatts, the first woman director of the Football Association, joins Jane to talk about her place on the Woman’s Hour power list.
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Power List Deliberations from 2013-02-12T14:24
Over the past couple of months Eve Pollard and her team of judges – Priti Patel MP, Val McDermid, Dawn O’Porter, Baroness Oona King and the former Woman’s Hour editor, Jill Burridge, have been maki...
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Angela Merkel from 2013-01-23T11:36
Jenni Murray interviews Angela Merkel's biographer Margaret Heckel about Merkel's life and legacy.
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Protest versus lobbying from 2013-01-08T10:16
What is the best way for women to engage in the political process – march and shout loudly or engage in subtle targeted persuasion? Journalist Laurie Penny and Charlotte Vere, founder of Women On...
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The women to watch in 2013 from 2013-01-03T14:15
As the Woman's Hour Power List judges consider who the most powerful women in the UK are at the start of 2013, we take a look at the women who will come to prominence as the year progresses. Jenni ...
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What to wear for success from 2012-12-28T11:42
The 80s was the decade associated with power dressing. But what would a 21st century woman choose to wear for success?
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A female old boy's network? from 2012-12-21T13:04
Do women have an effective equivalent of the old boys’ network? And is it possible to name our power list without the advantage of hindsight?
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Does Power Change You from 2012-12-14T11:37
It was Lord Acton, the British historian, who said: “All power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Is it possible to become powerful and still be the same person you once were? ...
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Britain and the World and Is Power Sexy? from 2012-12-07T11:38
If we were making a global power list, who would be on it? Angela Merkel and Hilary Clinton are a given. Who are the rest? Jenni is joined by Paola Totaro; vice president of the Foreign Press Assoc...
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Celebrity Power from 2012-11-30T15:51
Why do we give celebrities such power, and how seriously should celebrities take their status as role models? Jenni is joined by Myleene Klass, musician, presenter and model, and by Dan Wootton, sh...
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Eve Pollard, Anne McElvoy and Julia Hobsbawm on power from 2012-11-22T17:08
Which women have the biggest impact on our economy, society, politics&culture? Eve Pollard talks to Jenni about the Woman's Hour Powerlist and Anne McElvoy and Julia Hobsbawm discuss what power means.
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