Women's Troubles
- Radio panel show
- BBC Radio 4
- 1994
- 4 episodes (1 series)
All-female panel show hosted by Frances Edmonds, with team captains Jo Brand and Jan Ravens.
Press clippings
A low blow for women
It's sad, really, because one woman on this first show was genuinely funny. Guest panellist Lorelei King dealt with another equally ludicrous 'problem' by affectionately sending up the aspirations of Californian women, but she was one tiny star twinkling in a sodden January sky. A combination of dire script, obvious over-rehearsal and desperate outrageousness toppled the rest into a sluice where they seemed glad to wallow.
Sue Gaisford, The Independent, 9th January 1994Women's Troubles starts with a terrible handicap, the excruciating chairing of Frances Edmonds. Here is a woman who appears to believe that studied verbosity - especially if tricked out with a babyish voice and a camp jolly hockey sticks attack - is inherently comic, and words like "cogitations" and "luminary" signs of wit. [...] On the other hand, the team captains - the ubiquitous Jo Brand and Jan Ravens - and their female guests are genuinely funny.
Anne Karpf, The Guardian, 8th January 1994