Elkie Brooks, 'Emotional vampires', Breast cancer drug

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Why has a drug that can extend life for advanced breast cancer patients not been made available on the NHS? NICE have made the decision that Enhertu, a drug that can give around an extra six months to live on average, is too expensive. BBC Health Correspondent Cath Burns joins Anita Rani alongside Kate Wills, who has stage 4 cancer and has been campaigning for the drug to be made available.

Do you have an 'emotional vampire' in your life? It’s that person who can make you feel drained with their negativity, who isn’t taking your own emotions into account. It can make for tricky relationships – so how do you identify an emotional vampire, and how do you handle that person? Chartered psychologist and author Suzy Reading joins Anita to discuss, alongside journalist and author Radhika Sanghani.

Elkie Brooks is the renowned British rock, jazz and blues singer. In a career spanning six decades, she was the biggest selling female British artist and still holds the accolade of the most Top 75 albums among female artists. She began singing professionally aged 15, shared a bill with The Beatles and went on to front the group Vinegar Joe with Robert Palmer, before going solo. She’s currently on her Long Farewell Tour and joins Anita in the studio to talk about her career and turning 80 next year.

In the latest in our series on special educational needs and disabilities we speak to the comedian Josephine Lacey. Today, we are looking at a very personal issue which will resonate for some mothers of boys with SEND. Josephine joins Anita in the studio.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Emma Pearce

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0:03.7	podcasting. I'm Natasha Aronson I'm an assistant commissioner for the BBC and I work on
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0:47.0	BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts. Hello I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:52.0	Just to say that for rights reasons the music in the
0:55.3	original radio broadcast has been removed for this podcast.
0:59.2	Good morning. Welcome to the program. One of the most successful British singers now in the sixth decade of her career
1:07.2	Elke Brooks will be joining me in the studio. Now about a month ago Nula presented a very powerful and important program all about children
1:15.8	with special educational needs and disabilities or send and the people who have the duty to make
1:21.4	sure their needs are met. If you didn't hear it you can go back and
1:24.4	listen to it on BBC Sounds. Well today comedian Josephine Lacy will be here to tell us
1:29.8	about her teenage son and how you navigate as a mother dealing with puberty and
1:35.1	sexuality when your son is autistic. She'll be talking to me about her very
1:39.2	funny and incredibly moving stand-up show called autism mama. And then we'll be discussing
1:45.4	emotional vampires. Do you know any? Maybe you are one. It's got absolutely nothing
1:51.3	to do with sleeping in coffins or craving blood.
1:53.4	These are the people in your life who somehow seem to sap the life force out of you when you spend time with them.
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