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The Girlfriends: Spotlight

The Girlfriends: Spotlight

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The number 1 hit true crime series is back with more women fighting crime, battling injustice and seriously kicking ass.

In Season 1 of The Girlfriends: Spotlight, our global gang of girlfriends grew to include Pussy Riot’s punk icon and political prisoner Nadya Tolokonnikova, British Nigerian beauty queen and founder of Miss Trans Global, Miss saHHara and ‘The Erin Brockovich of East Africa’, environmental activist Phyllis Omido.

Now host Anna Sinfield returns with more incredible stories of women like bodyguard Jacquie Davis, who set out on a daring mission to free a pregnant British woman trapped in Pakistan. We’ll hear the story of Helene, a member of the French Resistance plotting to escape the brutality of a concentration camp. We’ll also meet Visaka Dharmadasa, a Sri Lankan mother who sat face to face with notorious terrorists and helped end a civil war.

The Girlfriends: Spotlight is produced by Novel for iHeartPodcasts.
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  • The Girlfriends: Spotlight Is Back...

    The Girlfriends: Spotlight Is Back...
    Feb 9 2026

    In Season 1 of The Girlfriends: Spotlight, our global gang of girlfriends grew to include Pussy Riot’s punk icon and political prisoner Nadya Tolokonnikova, British Nigerian beauty queen and founder of Miss Trans Global, Miss saHHara and ‘The Erin Brockovich of East Africa’, environmental activist Phyllis Omido, to name a few.

    Now Anna Sinfield is back with more incredible stories of women like Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, who battled through trauma, loss and addiction to become the first Peruvian woman to summit Mount Everest, and Visaka Dharmadasa, a Sri Lankan mother who sat face to face with notorious terrorists and helped end a civil war. Come back every week for more stories of women winning.

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    1 min
  • The Girlfriends: Spotlight, E13: Silvia Climbs to the Top of the World

    The Girlfriends: Spotlight, E13: Silvia Climbs to the Top of the World
    Feb 9 2026

    When you’ve suffered childhood trauma, endured alcohol abuse, been through awful bereavements, how can you heal? For Silvia Vasquez-Lavado the answer was to climb to the top of the world - and then take other traumatised women and girls with her.

    Silvia is the first Peruvian woman to summit Mount Everest and the first openly gay woman to complete the Seven Summits, the tallest mountain on each continent.

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    40 mins
  • The Girlfriends: Spotlight, E12: Lois Captures Criminals

    The Girlfriends: Spotlight, E12: Lois Captures Criminals
    Nov 3 2025

    Lois Gibson has a rare gift: A gift for accurately drawing people she’s never seen before, from fragmented descriptions from traumatised witnesses. And that gift is incredibly useful to the Houston Police Department.

    Lois is the world’s most successful forensic artist. Over 40 years, on more than 5089 cases, she’s worked with victims and witnesses to painstakingly piece together a likeness of a suspect. And in more than 1313 cases, her drawings have nailed it with a conviction - case closed.

    This is the story of how she found this talent in one of the very darkest moments of her own life.

    The Girlfriends: Spotlight is produced by Novel for iHeartPodcasts.

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    37 mins
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