{"podcast":{"title":"Woman's Hour","slug":"woman-s-hour-60819","podcast_index_feed_id":60819,"rss_url":"https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/b007qlvb.rss","website_url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007qlvb","image_url":"http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0m1q1df.jpg","author":"BBC","episode_count":2000,"summary":"Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire. The Woman's Hour Guide to Life collection is here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/guidetolife","last_synced_at":"2026-07-29T00:19:30.128245+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/woman-s-hour-60819"},"episode":{"title":"Public Toilets, Cheerleading, Women and Conscription","slug":"public-toilets-cheerleading-women-and-conscription","published_at":"2026-04-20T10:44:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/woman-s-hour-60819/public-toilets-cheerleading-women-and-conscription","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/woman-s-hour-60819","url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002v9nz","audio_url":"http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss/proto/http/vpid/p0nfgnq3.mp3","summary":"New analysis from the Royal Society for Public Health shows a 14% reduction in the number of public toilets across England since 2016. The report warns that the lack of facilities is contributing to an increase in public urination, creating unhygienic conditions. But is the impact felt equally - or are women disproportionately affected? Nuala McGovern is joined by Gail Ramster, Senior Research Associate at the Royal College of Art who carries out inclusive design research around public toilets and co-author of a book 'Designing Inclusive Public Toilets: Wee the People' Last week former Major General Tim Cross said UK youngsters on benefits should undertake military service. As anxiety about global conflict increases, what might military conscription look like for UK women? RAF veteran and reservist Amy Hill and Victoria Basham, Professor of International Relations at Cardiff University join Nuala to discuss. Using cheerleading to appeal to girls and young women to stay engaged with sport is one of several recommendations in a new report from MPs aimed at getting people to move more. After a more than year-long inquiry the Culture, Media and Sport Committee discovered a patchy picture of how well community and school sport is meeting the needs of people in England. So is offering cheerleading the way forward? Sarah Bellew, Head of Communications at Women in Sport and Millie Fannin, who runs Swindon Lightening Cheerleading club discuss. Four years after Russia’s full‑scale invasion of Ukraine, the human cost of the war continues to mount. A new documentary looks back to the months before the invasion, following a group of young female journalists reporting independently as press freedom in Russia were under threat. It captures the danger they faced - and the friendship a…","meta_description":"New analysis from the Royal Society for Public Health shows a 14% reduction in the number of public toilets across England since 2016. The report warns th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6645,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/woman-s-hour-60819/episodes/public-toilets-cheerleading-women-and-conscription/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/woman-s-hour-60819/public-toilets-cheerleading-women-and-conscription.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}