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Well-behaved women rarely make history – as someone once said – difficult women do.
In this new LBC new podcast, Rachel Johnson's Difficult Women, Rachel will be talking to women who had to be a pain in the backside to get where they are today.
Women who take the word difficult as a compliment not an insult. And women who had to fight, resist, insist, or otherwise be badly behaved in order to get things done.

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    • Society & Culture

Well-behaved women rarely make history – as someone once said – difficult women do.
In this new LBC new podcast, Rachel Johnson's Difficult Women, Rachel will be talking to women who had to be a pain in the backside to get where they are today.
Women who take the word difficult as a compliment not an insult. And women who had to fight, resist, insist, or otherwise be badly behaved in order to get things done.

Listen and subscribe on Global Player, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Follow Rachel on Twitter: @RachelSJohnson

    How to destroy the institution of marriage according to Merav Michaeli

    How to destroy the institution of marriage according to Merav Michaeli

    "The structure of marriage is a big part of maintaining the gender inequality between men and women" This week's difficult women is the Israeli leader of the opposition Merav Michaeli. Over her 12 years in Israeli politics, Merav has never struggled to make her voice heard. After recently deciding to stand down from her role as leader of the Labour party, we discussed her continued opposition to Netanyahu, a potential end to the war, and her decades long fight against the institution of marriage. 

    • 32 min
    Dr Charlotte Proudman, the original 'feminazi lawyer'

    Dr Charlotte Proudman, the original 'feminazi lawyer'

    "A barrister said I should be sectioned and left in a padded room" This week's difficult woman is Dr Charlotte Proudman, a fiercely defiant lawyer who isn't afraid to call a sexist spade a sexist spade. You will no doubt have first heard of Charlotte when she ousted a leering older colleague who had been making inappropriate comments about her linked in profile picture. A stunt that got her labelled an attention seeking feminazi. Dr Proudman has been no less difficult in the years that followed, always at the forefront of tackling misogyny when it rears its ugly head.

    • 44 min
    What Jilly Cooper REALLY thinks about modern men...

    What Jilly Cooper REALLY thinks about modern men...

    "I'll probably get cancelled for this!" Little needs to be said about this week's Difficult Woman, a prolific author, columnist and self-declared bitch, Jilly Cooper! Easily one of the greatest living English women, her novels have sold millions and have even caught the eye of our current prime minister... Recorded at the converted monastery in Gloucester where she resides, listen to this unashamedly honest conversation with one of Britain's greatest living authors.

    • 37 min
    How Tanya Laperouse turned the death of her daughter into a terrible victory...

    How Tanya Laperouse turned the death of her daughter into a terrible victory...

    "When we started this fight, we made enemies in the food industry." This week's difficult women is Tanya Laperouse, whilst you may not know her name but you will no doubt be familiar with the story that has lead to her taking on the entire food industry... and winning. In 2016, Tanya's daughter went on a holiday that would change her family's life forever... Listen to how Tanya took her own personal tragedy and turned it into a terrible victory. 

    • 34 min
    Stella Assange on the life-or-death week for her husband

    Stella Assange on the life-or-death week for her husband

    "If he is extradited... he won't survive in a US prison." This Wednesday, a British high court will decide on whether or not to extradite journalist Julian Assange. His crime? Exposing alleged war crimes committed by the US in Afghanistan. This week's difficult woman is Stella Assange, a human rights activist and lawyer, who married Julian in 2022. Stella and Julian met whilst he was trapped in the Ecuadorian embassy, a political prisoner unable to leave under threat of extradition. She may well be one of the bravest women I have ever interviewed...

    • 29 min
    Sharron Davies reveals the hidden misogyny behind the Olympics

    Sharron Davies reveals the hidden misogyny behind the Olympics

    "We have ground out these opportunities for women and its now as if we aren't entitled to them anymore" This weeks Difficult Woman is trailblazer and Swimmer Sharron Davies who lost out on gold at the Olympics to doping Russian athletes. With first hand experience of injustice in sport, Sharon has taken it upon herself to fight for biological categorisation in sport.

    • 32 min

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