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Hello, Jenny Murray welcoming you to the Woman's Hour podcast for Wednesday, the 14th of August.

As you may have heard, Marina Wheeler, the estranged wife of Boris Johnson has been treated

for cervical cancer and is urging older women to get a smear test. Why is the older age

group at greater risk than they might think?

Now here is on the essential summer items of clothing, the historian Amber Butchart on

the straw hat and the second chance to hear the first year series called Off the Rails.

We talked to Nikkeela who was in trouble and now supports others in danger of following

her old ways.

If you were listening last week to Book of the Week, you will already be familiar with

Edna Adam Ismail because her story, a woman of first, the woman who built her hospital

and changed the world, was read by Cathy Tyson.

Today you can hear Edna, a midwife, former foreign minister, former first lady of Somali

land and worldwide campaigner against female genital mutilation, tell her story in her

own voice.

We know her father was a huge influence on her, why was he so important?

Well he was a very kind and generous man and I admired the way he communicated with patients

how he cared for them, how compassionate he was and how much time he devoted to looking

after the sick.

The patients came first and I admired that, that was a quality I had seen in nobody else

before him and I have seen that characteristic in very few since my father and it's something

that has impressed me as a child and also set standards for me and footsteps to follow

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