Dame Emma Thompson, Binner or Flusher, Spare Rib & Virago at 50, Surgeon Ian Paterson, Dolly Alderton

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Oscar-winner Dame Emma Thompson on women's pleasure and full frontal nudity in her latest acting role in Good Luck To You, Leo Grande. Are you a 'flusher' or a ‘binner’? New research says 2.4 million tampons are flushed down UK toilets every day leading to sewer blockages and pollution. We talk to Martha Silcott who's developed a simple product to encourage you to bin and Daisy Buchanan who says more needs to be done to make a product which flushes without causing environmental harm. In 2017 surgeon Ian Paterson was jailed for 20 years after being found guilty of 17 counts of wounding with intent. Mr Paterson was diagnosing cancer when there wasn’t any and cutting his patients open for no reason, performing unnecessary and damaging surgery. He also carried out unregulated "cleavage-sparing" mastectomies, in which breast tissue was left behind, meaning cancer returned in many of his patients. Ahead of a new ITV documentary Emma speaks to the whistleblower who raised concerns about Ian Paterson – Mr Hemant Ingle, and one of Paterson’s victims Debbie Douglas, who is still campaigning for a change in the law to prevent anything like this from happening again. 50 years ago this month the first edition of the iconic feminist magazine Spare Rib was published. Also in that year - 1972 – and inspired by its founders, Rosie Boycott and Marsha Rowe, Carmen Callil founded the book publisher Virago which still gives a voice and platform to female writers today. Emma hears from the three trailblazing women. Can platonic love survive romantic love as we grow up? The writer Dolly Alderton on her new BBC TV series, an adaptation of her 2018 memoir ‘Everything I Know About Love’. Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Dianne McGregor

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.4	Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.3	Welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour.
0:12.2	We've collated a selection of the standout moments from the week just gone in case you
0:16.4	miss them because we're nice like that.
0:18.8	In a moment Emma Thompson gets intimate and we ask whether you're a flusher or a binner,
0:24.9	we're talking about sanitary products.
0:27.6	We hear from the whistleblower who drew the authorities attention to the activities
0:31.2	of Ian Patterson, the now imprisoned breast surgeon performing unnecessary operations on women
0:37.0	and men.
0:38.0	50 years since both were created, we speak to the founders of the iconic feminist magazine
0:42.6	spare rib and the book publisher Virago, which gives a voice and platform to female writers.
0:48.6	And Dolly Olderton on the TV adaptation of her book Everything I Know About Love and
0:53.4	The Choice of Being an Agony Ant is going to be a good one.
0:57.0	First, Oscar winner, Dame Emma Thompson has graced our screens for four decades.
1:02.9	As an actor, she's played all kinds of women from her role as Eleanor Dashwood in sense
1:07.4	and sensibility to the fantastically styled Baroness in Crayola.
1:12.1	Now she's taking on a very different kind of role.
1:15.7	Good luck to you, Leo Grand tells the story of Nancy Stokes played by Emma, a 55 year
1:20.9	old widow who's never had an orgasm.
1:23.9	After the death of her husband, she decides to hire a significantly younger sex worker
1:28.4	played by the Irish actor, Darryl McCormack.
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