Woman's Hour

BBC Radio 4

Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.Listen to our new series of conversations, The Woman's Hour Guide to Life, on BBC Sounds - your toolkit for the juggle, struggle and everything in between: www.bbc.co.uk/guidetolife

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Woman's Hour

Episodes (1000)

Today Matrescence, Mexico's 'searching mothers', New novel The Night Nag
Yesterday Sarah Everard anniversary, The Traitors' Harriet Tyce, Geniuses
Monday Women in Iran, George Eliot on stage, Professor Kate Pickett

Woman's Hour

Mar 4, 2026
59 minutes
54 MB

The BBC has had exclusive access to the world’s largest study scanning pregnant women’s brains. The BeMOther project is based in Spain and has found that women's brains change significantly through pregnancy and beyond. We learn more about the changes and ask why Matrescence - and the transformations that can come with pregnancy, birth and raising a child - are only just starting to receive attention as a distinct life-stage. There's even a campaign to get the word in US dictionaries. Nuala McGovern talks to Smitha Mundasad, a BBC health and science reporter who visited the trial in S...

Woman's Hour

Matrescence, Mexico's 'searching mothers', New novel The Night Nag

BBC Radio 4

00:00 -59:01