Late Night Woman's Hour

Late Night Woman's Hour (LNWH) is a late night edition of the long-running, BBC Radio 4 programme Woman's Hour. It started in 2015 with a one month pilot run, scheduled twice weekly on Thursday and Friday at 11 pm for one hour.[1] The presenters for this first run were Lauren Laverne and Jane Garvey who led panels of five guests in discussion of a particular topic such as fan fiction or lust.[2] Lauren Laverne then became the permanent host when the programme started a regular schedule in 2016, being scheduled as a monthly podcast which was then broadcast on Radio 4 at 11 pm on the last Thursday of each month.[3][4]

The topics discussed in the first run included the dating app, Tinder, and lying. The conversation was frank and adult, being broadcast after the watershed.[1] This resulted in a gaffe when one of the guests, Guardian journalist Hannah Jane Parkinson, used an expletive, for which the host apologised.[2] Other guests have included Irma Kurtz, Kellie Maloney and Richard Herring.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Kate Chisholm (5 September 2015), "Late Night Woman's Hour assumes that all women think about is dating, desire and drinking", The Spectator
  2. 1 2 Alasdair Glennie (21 August 2015), "Lauren Laverne raises eyebrows with Radio 4's Late Night Woman's Hour", The Guardian
  3. ↑ "Lauren Laverne to host monthly Late Night Woman's Hour on Radio 4", Radio Times, 27 January 2016
  4. ↑ Tara Conlan (27 January 2016), "Late Night Woman's Hour to become permanent Radio 4 fixture", The Guardian
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