Rachel Johnson's Difficult Women

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: @RachelSJohnsonFor advertising opportunities on this podcast email: dax@global.com

The forgotten women, remembered by Anne Sebba
Apr 22, 2025 – 38:02
Suzanne O'Sullivan's prescription for Overdiagnosis
Apr 14, 2025 – 35:40
Tessa Dunlop and a career of Difficulty
Apr 9, 2025 – 35:15
Elif Shafak: Turkish writing in troubled times
Mar 31, 2025 – 33:06
Jude Kelly on directing a man's world
Mar 24, 2025 – 44:06
Climbing Mont Blanc in a Bonnet! With Elise Wortley
Mar 17, 2025 – 31:23
Emmeline Pankhurst's Great-Granddaughter and the state of women's rights
Mar 10, 2025 – 32:40
Ukrainian MP, Kira Rudik
Mar 3, 2025 – 30:32
Tonia Antoniazzi and the Afghani Cricket Team
Feb 24, 2025 – 30:31
The world according to Anne Applebaum
Feb 17, 2025 – 45:27
The Trailblazing Bonnie Greer
Feb 10, 2025 – 37:39
Sally Clarke's Breakfast with Freud
Feb 3, 2025 – 35:07
Mariella Frostrup, from Penniless Teen to Menopause Queen
Jan 27, 2025 – 40:45
Tracy-Ann Oberman takes on the "Keffiyeh Karens"
Jan 20, 2025 – 43:06
Dr Webberley's Tireless Trans Advocacy
Jan 6, 2025 – 32:30
Strictly's Amy Dowden
Dec 16, 2024 – 26:42
Shabnam Nasimi
Dec 9, 2024 – 39:58
Yalda Hakim's Big Break
Dec 2, 2024 – 45:44
Suella Braverman, difficult until the end.
Nov 25, 2024 – 51:46
The Soccer Mom who took down Pornhub
Nov 17, 2024 – 37:07
The life long tenacity of Tanni Grey-Thompson
Nov 11, 2024 – 47:01
The Marvellous Miss Feltz
Nov 4, 2024 – 41:10
How Donna Jones gets things DONE
Oct 28, 2024 – 45:56
Madame Anti-Woke, Miriam Cates
Oct 21, 2024 – 41:12
How Margaret Casely-Hayford plans to make history
Oct 14, 2024 – 37:30
Kate Weinberg's elusive illness
Oct 7, 2024 – 34:29
Bunny Guinness' Green Fingers
Sep 30, 2024 – 33:54
How Natalie Fleet told her daughter she was a product of rape
Sep 23, 2024 – 33:26
Bibi Lynch and the Plight of the Childless
Sep 17, 2024 – 36:31
Alice Hendy from tragedy to triumph
Sep 9, 2024 – 27:14
From the Archive: the mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin
Sep 2, 2024 – 38:50
Why Eleanor Mills was REALLY fired from The Sunday Times
Aug 19, 2024 – 30:17
The Many Strings to Kat Brown's Bow
Aug 12, 2024 – 39:40
Why Jennifer Ewing believes Trump will still win in November...
Jul 29, 2024 – 40:40
Harriet Wistrich: The feminist lawyer's feminist lawyer
Jul 15, 2024 – 41:48
The many voices of Ronni Ancona
Jul 8, 2024 – 48:06
Why Ann Widdecombe REALLY abandoned the Tories...
Jun 24, 2024 – 36:03
How Plum Sykes lives with the weight of familial legacy...
Jun 17, 2024 – 53:41
What's next for Sharon White?
Jun 10, 2024 – 46:06
The Many Friends of Rosemary Reed...
Jun 3, 2024 – 37:36
Kathy Lette's advice on aging with style!
May 20, 2024 – 36:10
What the Godmother of Radio REALLY thinks about podcasting...
May 13, 2024 – 41:29
Rachel Goldberg's 208 days without her son
May 6, 2024 – 38:50
Patsy Stevenson on the arrest that catapulted her into the public eye
Apr 29, 2024 – 46:41
How Alexandra Tolstoy escaped from a Russian Dacha
Apr 22, 2024 – 47:03
Sam McAlister, the woman behind THAT Prince Andrew interview
Apr 15, 2024 – 46:00
How Daisy Goodwin derailed the Conservative Mayoral campaign
Apr 8, 2024 – 44:07
The Former Chief of Ofsted on the death of Ruth Perry
Apr 1, 2024 – 44:13
How to destroy the institution of marriage according to Merav Michaeli
Mar 25, 2024 – 32:25
Dr Charlotte Proudman, the original 'feminazi lawyer'
Mar 12, 2024 – 44:36

Recent Reviews

Socal-fatboyslimmish

Barbara Amiel AND Rachel Johnson

A combination so awful it was essential listening for me. Absolute drivel from two particularly nasty people.
berni2012

Barbara Amiel Was An Arrogantly Uninformed Guest

Barbara Amiel was an arrogantly uninformed guest. This review gets 2 stars because the host corrected this horrible guest on at least one significant lie. Ms. Amiel said something like "North American women are horribly spoiled." What utter unkind ignorance pretending to be insightful and the latest example that money or even formal education can still mean that Ms. Amiel can be stupid. The truth is USA women have A. 0 guaranteed paid vacation B. 0 guaranteed paid parental leave C. crushing education debt, the balances of which increase because of predatory interest rates (total education debt in the USA is over 1.5 trillion USA dollars) D. 0 guaranteed healthcare and can be prosecuted for seeking an abortion and certain gynecological procedures in 26 out of 50 states E. on average have salaries of 78 cents for every 100 cents that a man with less education gets paid F. lowest life expectancy among all peer countries I could go on. The above statistics are even more brutal for African-American women whose ancestors survived Europe’s and America’s crimes against humanity to build the wealth of the United States and Europe. There are intelligent, insightful women. Ms. Amiel isn’t among them. Please invite intelligent, informed women on your podcast.
Lolo13419

Throwing Tina Brown under the double decker bus

I can not believe how Rachel said to Tina around 20:30 into the podcast, “ Oh yes, you met Harold and started romancing him while he was still married and eventually married him”. Unbelievably obnoxious thing to say to a guest that Rachel supposedly “adores”. No matter our opinion on what the circumstances were between Harold and Tina those years ago, I just felt like Rachel could not WAIT to throw that into the interview. It came off as nothing more than a jealous fellow journalist trying to make someone much more successful and well known than her, look bad.
yellikeh

Schlock?

Listened to one episode with Jo Wood and sounds like another gossip show in a time warp. I stopped after hearing the question, “how do you keep your husband happy?”
Kng George VI aka Bertie

Fabulous!

This is an excellent podcast. Rachel Johnson’s technique as a host is flawless and conversational.
Femsplainer

You Haven’t Made It Until You’re Called Bossy

Live this idea for a podcast and Rachel is the perfect host: lively, intelligent, and entertaining!