Continuing this season's line-up of ICONIC AND INCREDIBLE WOMEN, I am veritably trembling with delight to bring you today's guest: the extraordinary Gillian Anderson.
Her 30-plus year career has taken her from playing FBI Special Agent Scully in The X Files to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Crown. She’s been a dogged detective in The Fall and an une ... Show More
Nov 19
Michelle Yeoh - On typecasting, fertility and THAT Oscars speech
Michelle Yeoh has created a legendary body of work that defies easy categorisation. You’ll know her from cult classic Kung Fu Cinema, Everything Everywhere, All At Once - the film that made her the first Asian woman to be given the Academy Award for Best Actress at the time. She ... Show More
53m 19s
Nov 17
ON PARENTING…with Andy Cohen and Caitlin Moran
Today, we’re chatting all about parenting on How To Fail! We’ll be revisiting some of the most meaningful moments from the archive - the ones that can bring a fresh insight, thoughtful perspective and a sense of comfort through parenting’s tougher challenges.
First, you'll hear ... Show More
13m 34s
Oct 2024
Gillian Anderson: How to Get What You Want (in Bed and in Life)
358. Gillian Anderson: How to Get What You Want (in Bed and in Life)
Icon Gillian Anderson joins Glennon, Abby, and Amanda to talk about everything from sexual fantasies to why she says “F you” to wellness culture. With wit, honesty, and an intoxicating spirit of rebellion, Gill ... Show More
42m 43s
Sep 2024
Gillian Anderson Wants to Hear Your Sexiest Fantasies
<p>The actor Gillian Anderson (“The X-Files,” “The Fall,” “Sex Education”) has become an advocate for sexual openness, whether through her on-screen personas, launching a libido-boosting soda brand, attending the Golden Globes in a vulva-embroidered dress or through her new book, ... Show More
33m 6s
Sep 2024
Gillian Anderson: Sexual fantasies, orgasm gaps, and shame
<p>What is your deepest sexual desire? Where do you think it comes from? Gillian Anderson has collected a series of anonymous fantasies in her new book, Want, and she wonders that at the heart of so many fantasies is the longing to be seen for who we really are.</p><p> </p>< ... Show More
51m 33s
Feb 2022
A Tea with Cate Blanchett
This week, the legendary Cate Blanchett joins us. To start, we unpack her femme fatale turn in Nightmare Alley (6:06), the way director Guillermo del Toro wrestles with truth and deception in the new neo-noir (9:34), the first time Blanchett understood her gift for shapeshifting ... Show More
54m 31s
Sep 13
Weekend Woman’s Hour: Davina McCall, Papua New Guinea, Jung Chang, Fawning, Sophie Ellis Bextor
Davina McCall, one of TV’s most popular presenters has a new book out, Birthing, co-written with the midwife, Marley Henry. Davina joined Anita Rani to talk about her stellar career so far, including hosting Big Brother for 10 years, campaigning for better menopause care and buil ... Show More
55m 13s
Feb 2025
160: ICON, Sex Kitten, and BLACKLISTED?! WTF happened to Eartha Kitt
<div>Hi friends, happy Wednesday!<br>
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Most celebrities are lucky to be known for one big thing. But some are famous for different things, across multiple generations. To me, those are the icons. <br>
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And one of those people is Eartha Kitt. A lot of millennials recognize ... Show More
49m 58s
Oct 21
Grooming gangs, Eve Muirhead, Lily King, Menopause
Two sexual abuse survivors have resigned from their roles on the national inquiry into grooming gangs. Fiona Goddard and Ellie Reynolds both stood down from the victims' liaison panel which was overseeing the process. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced in the summer that t ... Show More
54m 14s