Rachel Johnson's Difficult Women

About 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: @RachelSJohnson For advertising opportunities on this podcast, email: GlobalStudiosSales@global.com

Publisher

Global

Category

news · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Apr 2021

Latest episode

17 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

236 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   17 Jul 2026

   223. Anne Jenkin

   This week’s Difficult Woman, Anne Jenkin, sits in the Lords as Baroness Jenkin of Kennington. Anne has packed several lifetimes into politics, particularly the cause of women’s representation, having, co-founded the Women2Win group, with former Prime Minister Theresa May. Rachel also asks Anne about the time she made the headlines for using a certain word in the Lords to lay out how the abuse received by politicians could risk damaging democracy...

2. 

   10 Jul 2026

   222. Tulip Siddiq

   This week Rachel is joined by Tulip Siddiq, and what a whirlwind of a conversation it is. Tulip has been the Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate, previously Hampstead and Kilburn, since 2015. Not unacquainted with scandal, she is the niece of former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, and was issued with an arrest warrant by Bangladesh as part of investigations into her aunt's premiership. Tulip tells Rachel about how hard it was to weather the storm of the press over the allegations. She also reveals how it felt when politics became personal, as she campaigned for the release of her constituent Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was detained in Iran.

3. 

   3 Jul 2026

   221. Sonya Barlow

   This week Rachel is joined by Sonya Barlow, the founder and CEO of the Like Minded Females network. Sonya has carved out a space for herself as a female, minority tech entrepreneur, and her network crucially also makes room for others to thrive. Together they talk about what it’s like being a woman in tech, an industry still heavily dominated by men. Sonya also tells Rachel about how becoming a mum for the first time has recently changed her life.

Who has been a guest on Rachel Johnson's Difficult Women

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Hallie Rubenhold
• Juliet Nicolson
• Dame Jilly Cooper
• Hanan Khashoggi
• Baroness Kate Fall

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

1,081,343,195

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

2.9 / 5

15 ratings

Spotify

4.2 / 5

47 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 76 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

78

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

92

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Books guests

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