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Woman's Hour

Actor Romola Garai, AI research and breast cancer, Rebecca Watson

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Annie Ernaux’s Booker-nominated book, Les Années, traces her journey from childhood in post-war France to old age in the post-9/11 era. Now adapted for the stage, Gina Mckee, Deborah Findlay and Romola Garai, alongside Anjli Mohindra and Harmony Rose-Bremner, are the five actors portraying different stages in the life of an ‘unnamed’ French woman. Romola Garai joins Nuala McGovern in the Woman’s Hour studio.

We talk to Regina Barzilay, a Professor of AI & Health in the Department of Computer Science at MIT, about how her own breast cancer diagnosis shifted her research to predicting cancer. Regina and her team have built an Artificial Intelligence system that can predict almost half of all incidences of breast cancer up to five years before they happen.

And author Rebecca Watson on her latest novel I Will Crash - a unique take on sibling torment.

Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Lisa Jenkinson

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Rory Stewart and I want to talk about ignorance. I will die without having read

0:08.2

everything that was written in classical Latin. Because ignorance isn't simply the opposite of knowledge.

0:14.7

It's part of what it means to be human.

0:17.5

Just about every game I can think of involves ignorance.

0:22.1

There's no adventure without ignorance. There's no there's no narrative.

0:25.0

The long history of ignorance from Confucius to Kianan

0:29.0

with me Rory Stewart,

0:31.0

listen on BBC Sounds.

0:35.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:39.6

Hello, this is Nula McGovran

0:41.4

and you're listening to the Woman's Hour Podcast. Indeed it is. This is

0:44.0

Indeed it is good morning and welcome to the woman's hour podcast. Indeed it is good morning and welcome to woman's hour.

0:48.0

Well I was stopped in my tracks by a play called The Years. It is currently playing at the Almeida Theatre in London and it tells the story of a one woman through five actors.

1:04.6

Romulagari is one of those women and she will be here with me.

1:08.1

Also today, the woman who helped create the revolutionary AI system that can predict almost half of all

1:13.4

incidences of breast cancer up to five years before they happen. That

1:18.6

discussion coming up. And for those of you with brothers, what was your relationship like?

1:24.4

Was it good, with a bit of teasing, or something more difficult altogether?

1:29.1

Well today we're going to look at the much darker side of sibling relationships with Rebecca Watson.

1:33.6

She has a new book, I Will Crash, and it explores an abusive brother told through an inner monologue.

1:39.9

Rebecca will also be in the Women's Hour Studio.

1:43.0

And I want to tell you about this story I saw out of Guernsey this morning.

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