WPR has stated its aim as being "the Woman's Hour of Westminster, reporting fairly and accurately on policy issues of concern to women and their families".
[2] The British Library has a collection of 82 audio interviews Boni and her team conducted for a book on women in politics.
[3] Boni used her web skills and modern developments in technology to self-publish books about her childhood growing up in Sizewell in Suffolk in the 1950s and being part of a family who lived off "the fat of the land".
The project's founders are concerned that, over ninety years after women won the right to stand for elections to the House of Commons in 1918, only one in five Members of Parliament is a woman.
[5] The publication of the book led Roy Greenslade, then media commentator in the Guardian, to offer his own “mea culpa” to women MPs for the descriptions he has used of them.
The charity campaigner, Boo Armstrong, provided much-needed encouragement and support as an Advisory Board member in the early days.
In 2010 the broadcasts of wpradio were featured on a wall where audiences using headphones could listen to ten of its interviews at the well-received and reviewed Tricycle Theatre's Women Power and Politics plays.
[11] Boni Sones, executive producer of the channel, was nominated for the Dods and Scottish Widows female political journalist of the year award.