Emma Webber & Sinead O'Malley Kumar, Maureen Lipman, Nina Bhadreshwar

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Anita Rani speaks to Emma Webber and Sinead O’Malley Kumar mothers of Barnaby and Grace, both 19, who were killed in Nottingham in June 2023. They’ll be responding to the findings of a major review of the NHS care of Valdo Calocane the man who attacked their children. A report Emma has already described as a horror show.

Nina Bhadreshwar’s crime novel The Day of the Roaring tells the story of Sheffield Detective Inspector Diana Walker, who is trying to solve some particularly grisly murders while dealing with corruption and racial and sexual discrimination at work. Nina joins Anita to discuss her own Yorkshire upbringing, launching a magazine which led her to a friendship with rapper Tupac Shakur and a job at the notorious hip hop label Death Row Records.

A new opera is being written about Margaret Thatcher. Seen by many as a divisive figure, the Rest is History podcast co-host Dominic Sandbrook's new work is going to look at her 11-year tenure as prime minister. Dame Maureen Lipman - who played Margaret Thatcher in an episode of the British sitcom About Face - discusses her appeal and what she was like to play as a character.

Dr LaShyra ‘Lash’ Nolen is one of the charity, One Young World’s young leaders. She was the first African American woman to serve as student president at Harvard Medical School in 2019, was on Forbes 30 Under 30 Healthcare list in 2022 and now works as a resident physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. ‘Lash’ as she is known, joins Anita to talk about her daily work, her journey to a career in medicine and her desire to see equity in healthcare throughout the US.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Kirsty Starkey

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0:44.8	Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. Good morning and welcome
0:51.1	to the programme. Grace O'Malley Kumar, Barnaby Weber and Ian Coates were all tragically killed in Nottingham in June 2023 by Valdow Calocaine.
1:01.7	On the program today, Grace and Barnaby's mums give their reaction to the 300-page report, which was made public yesterday and which admits the system got it wrong and identified
1:12.4	clear failings in the treatment provided to him. Also on the programme, Dave Bue novelist Nina
1:18.6	Badeshwa will be telling me about her page turner of a book and also about her time working
1:23.5	with rapper Tupakshakur and being his pen pal. And as you know, we're champions of impressive women here.
1:29.6	And Dr. Lesheera Nolan is seriously impressive,
1:33.0	being named in the Forbes 30 under 30 list in healthcare
1:35.6	and as the first African-American female student president
1:39.0	at Harvard Medical School, no less.
1:41.7	And Mrs Thatcher, the opera.
1:44.6	Would you watch it?
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