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Send us Fan Mail Sports Shorts from WRN brings you all the latest on our campaigns and women's sports news; including football, fencing and our weekly features, "sin bin" and "star of the week". In this week's episode frustrations are running high with the Football Association (again), and with news from the Veteran Fencing World Championships in Dubai. The team discu...

Send us Fan Mail Sports Shorts from WRN brings you all the latest on our campaigns and women’s sports news; including parkrun, volleyball and our weekly features “sin bin” and “star of the week”.  In this episode the team reflect on a weekend of action to mark parkrun’s 20th anniversary, discuss Team GB trampolinist and Olympic gold medal winner Bryony Page, and we hear from a less than impressed...

Send us Fan Mail The Sports Group has launched a podcast: Sports Shorts from WRN. Get the latest women's sport campaign news from the team, plus updates on our autumn-winter actions, including parkrun (5th October), football (the 72 campaign), netball updates, and our weekly features, "sin bin" and "star of the week". In this first episode, the team talk us through the lat...

Send us Fan Mail Author Drew Augustine returns to the WRN podcast to read an extract from her crime thriller, The Twenty Murders, a dark and compelling story set amidst the culture wars.  As its protagonist Detective Constable Morven MacLeod goes undercover, we are drawn into the fury and fear that descends upon a women's meeting.  If you enjoyed listening to this podcast and would like to he...

Send us Fan Mail WRN Scotland's Mary Howden hosts a book group discussion with Drew Augustine about her first gender critical novel, the crime thriller Twenty Murders, which follows the hunt for a serial killer in Scotland. Set against and influenced by real events, Drew explains how she wanted to write a book with purpose  and one that would surface the issues around gender ideology, not jus...

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Send us Fan Mail By Claire Loneragan  If you enjoyed listening to this podcast and would like to hear more, go to womensrights.network/wrn-podcast to listen, download and subscribe to more of our episodes.   And if you’d like to join our conversations, go to womensrights.network/join-wrn

Send us Fan Mail 2024 will be an election year. We will have local elections in many constituencies, Police and Crime Commissioner elections and almost certainly a general election.  Elaine Miller knows what’s involved and explains all to WRN’s Zoe in this conversation where you can hear about Elaine’s experience of running in a by-election as an independent candidate.   If you have thought about...

Send us Fan Mail WRN is pleased to bring you The Famous Artist Birdy Rose . Another woman working in the Arts, who has been cancelled. Birdy Rose is an artist and talked to us about: her experiences growing up and how being born deaf inspired her creativity how her artistic career developed being cancelled, for her and her musician partner her new project with Louise Distras #TerfIsTheNewPunk Bird...

Send us Fan Mail WRN is pleased to being you Louise Distras . Yet another woman working in the Arts, who has been cancelled. Louise is a musician and talked to us about: growing up and becoming homeless with the vulnerability that brings musical and own life experience influences how her musical career developed all about the human condition (self) censorship, cancellation and its psychological ef...

Send us Fan Mail We welcomed Gillian to the WRN podcast and we fitted a lot in! - How she got into writing and her many successful books and which are her favourites - The fall out from adding #IStandWithJKRowling to her (then) Twitter bio - Taking Working Partners to Tribunal - The state of publishing and The Society of Authors - Fellow author Rachel Rooney's experience - Her new job and how...

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Send us Fan Mail With thanks to Glinner. Original video published on his YouTube channel. Baker has been found NOT guilty today of the offence of “Intentionally encourage / assist the commission of a summary offence - Serious Crime Act 2007”.  Intent was not proved. It is understood he will NOT  be released after today’s verdict. He will have to wait for a parole hearing which may be in March next...

Send us Fan Mail A brief review of Women’s World Cupbefore going on to this week’s main theme #BackToSchool  🛍 MERCH AT VIOLETVEND https://www.violetvend.com/ 👉🏻 WOMEN'S RIGHTS NETWORK - JOIN US! https://www.womensrights.network/join-wrn 👉🏻 WOMEN'S RIGHTS NETWORK - DONATE! https://www.womensrights.network/donate 👩🏻‍💻 ALL OUR MEDIA https://linktr.ee/womensrightsnetwork #WomensRight...

Send us Fan Mail This week’s WRN Newsletter theme is sport, but of course there are a few other matters as well. 🛍 MERCH AT VIOLETVEND https://www.violetvend.com/ 👉🏻 WOMEN'S RIGHTS NETWORK - JOIN US! https://www.womensrights.network/join-wrn 👉🏻 WOMEN'S RIGHTS NETWORK - DONATE! https://www.womensrights.network/donate 👩🏻‍💻 ALL OUR MEDIA https://linktr.ee/womensrightsnetwork #WomensR...

Send us Fan Mail Moving on from health last week, the theme for this week has been justice, policing and prisons. It’s not all bad news in the UK, but the situation is dire for women in Afghanistan.  We end this edition on a high, celebrating British women’s sporting success and with a word from Ian Wright. 🛍 MERCH AT VIOLETVEND https://www.violetvend.com/ 👉🏻 WOMEN'S RIGHTS NETWORK - JOIN U...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our weekly round up - That Was The Women's Week That Was (TWTWWTW) With a difference this week! Throughout August, each week has a theme on our social media. This week was #BadMedicine  We've looked at the state of healthcare for women and children including: Hospitals Report on Rapes and Sexual Assaults  Breastbinding: the Painful Truth The Next Big Medical S...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our weekly round up - That Was The Women's Week That Was (TWTWWTW) 🛍 MERCH AT VIOLETVEND https://www.violetvend.com/ 👉🏻 WOMEN'S RIGHTS NETWORK - JOIN US! https://www.womensrights.network/join-wrn 👉🏻 WOMEN'S RIGHTS NETWORK - DONATE! https://www.womensrights.network/donate 👩🏻‍💻 ALL OUR MEDIA https://linktr.ee/womensrightsnetwork #WomensRightsNetwork...

Send us Fan Mail Jo Bartosch was one of the first journalists to question the medical protocols around the transition of children and has been a key figure in the fight against transgenderism, bringing it to national attention in the press. She’s been published in outlets from the Times to to the New Statesman and  is a frequent contributor to broadcasts on political topics. She is also assistant...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our weekly round up - That Was The Women's Week That Was (TWTWWTW) 🛍 MERCH AT VIOLETVEND https://www.violetvend.com/ 👉🏻 WOMEN'S RIGHTS NETWORK - JOIN US! https://www.womensrights.network/join-wrn 👉🏻 WOMEN'S RIGHTS NETWORK - DONATE! https://www.womensrights.network/donate 👩🏻‍💻 ALL OUR MEDIA https://linktr.ee/womensrightsnetwork #WomensRightsNetwork...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our weekly round up - That Was The Women's Week That Was (TWTWWTW) 🛍 MERCH AT VIOLETVEND https://www.violetvend.com/ 👉🏻 WOMEN'S RIGHTS NETWORK - JOIN US! https://www.womensrights.network/join-wrn 👉🏻 WOMEN'S RIGHTS NETWORK - DONATE! https://www.womensrights.network/donate 👩🏻‍💻 ALL OUR MEDIA https://linktr.ee/womensrightsnetwork #WomensRightsNetwork...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our weekly round up - That Was The Women's Week That Was (TWTWWTW) 🛍 MERCH AT VIOLETVEND https://www.violetvend.com/ 👉🏻 WOMEN'S RIGHTS NETWORK - JOIN US! https://www.womensrights.network/join-wrn 👉🏻 WOMEN'S RIGHTS NETWORK - DONATE! https://www.womensrights.network/donate 👩🏻‍💻 ALL OUR MEDIA https://linktr.ee/womensrightsnetwork #WomensRightsNetwork...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our weekly round up - That Was The Women's Week That Was (TWTWWTW) 🛍 MERCH AT VIOLETVEND https://www.violetvend.com/ 👉🏻 WOMEN'S RIGHTS NETWORK - JOIN US! https://www.womensrights.network/join-wrn 👉🏻 WOMEN'S RIGHTS NETWORK - DONATE! https://www.womensrights.network/donate 👩🏻‍💻 ALL OUR MEDIA https://linktr.ee/womensrightsnetwork #WomensRightsNetwork...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our weekly round up - That Was The Women's Week That Was (TWTWWTW) 🛍 MERCH AT VIOLETVEND https://www.violetvend.com/ 👉🏻 WOMEN'S RIGHTS NETWORK - JOIN US! https://www.womensrights.network/join-wrn 👉🏻 WOMEN'S RIGHTS NETWORK - DONATE! https://www.womensrights.network/donate 👩🏻‍💻 ALL OUR MEDIA https://linktr.ee/womensrightsnetwork #WomensRightsNetwork...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our weekly round up - That Was The Women's Week That Was (TWTWWTW) 🛍 MERCH AT VIOLETVEND https://www.violetvend.com/ 👉🏻 WOMEN'S RIGHTS NETWORK - JOIN US! https://www.womensrights.network/join-wrn 👉🏻 WOMEN'S RIGHTS NETWORK - DONATE! https://www.womensrights.network/donate 👩🏻‍💻 ALL OUR MEDIA https://linktr.ee/womensrightsnetwork #WomensRightsNetwork...