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Woman's Hour

Group screaming, Kim Leadbeater, Breast cancer treatment, Separated fostered siblings, Lazy Susan

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Downing Street has said the Prime Minister will not be apologising for claiming that the Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer, while Director of Public Prosecutions failed to prosecute Jimmy Saville for sexual assault - a claim that is false. There have been renewed calls for Boris Johnson to retract the comments after Sir Keir was targeted yesterday by a gang of protestors near Parliament - some of whom could be heard shouting "paedophile protector". The Prime Minister has described the demonstrators' behaviour as "disgraceful". It brings to the fore the issue of MPs and their public safety. Kim Leadbeater is the sister of murdered Labour MP Jo Cox, and now represents her sister's former constituency of Batley and Spen for Labour. She speaks to Emma. New analysis says that almost 300,000 people were unable to see a cancer specialist within two weeks of an urgent referral between April and November last year. The research, which used information from the House of Commons library and was commissioned by the Labour Party, found that more than 90,000 of those breaches were for people who may have breast cancer. As the Prime Minister promises new targets to tackle the backlog, Chief Executive of Breast Cancer Now, Baroness Delyth Morgan explains what this means for breast cancer patients. Have you ever felt like you wanted to scream from the top of your lungs? You’d be in good company. Last month, a group of Massachusetts mothers in the US decided to get all their pandemic frustrations off their chests by shouting in a group in the middle of a football field. It has inspired others women around the US to do the same. Could this craze come to the UK? Behaviour and data scientist, Professor Pragya Agarwal, decided to start screaming with her daughters during lockdown. Dr Rebecca Semmens-Wheeler explains why it might feel good but might not be the healthiest way of feeling better. A new BBC Three documentary presented by reporter Ashley John-Baptiste explores sibling separation in the UK care system. What is the impact for a child in foster care to be separated from their sisters or brothers? Rachel Musekiwa and Keilagh Brinkley are two young women who were both separated from their siblings in care. They tell us their experiences. A new all-female sketch show called Lazy Susan premiered this month on BBC Three and iPlayer. The series features some hilarious new characters from the comedy duo Freya Parker and Celeste Drin, alongside some of those best-loved from their stage shows. Unique and powerful women, like this pair of comedians, are taking over comedy from every direction. That's according to the Director of BBC Comedy, Shane Allen, who says: “Five years ago there were still articles asking where all the funny women were." Freya and Celeste join Emma Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Kirsty Starkey Interviewed Guest: Kim Leadbeater Interviewed Guest: Baroness Delyth Morgan Interviewed Guest: Professor Pragya Agarwal Interviewed Guest: Dr Rebecca Semmens-Wheeler Interviewed Guest: Rachel Musekiwa Interviewed Guest: Keliagh Brinkley Interviewed Guest: Freya Parker Interviewed Guest: Celeste Drin

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.2

Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:22.3

That is the sound of Sally Bowles played by Liza Monelli in the film Cabaret,

0:27.6

Screaming Under a Bridge. Do you ever feel like screaming? Do you do it?

0:32.7

Signantly into a cushion or out loud and perhaps it surprised you.

0:37.1

Made you feel better. You weren't aware of your own volume of your own power of your own

0:41.6

roar. Last month, a group of women in America decided to get all of their

0:45.6

pandemic frustrations off their chests by shouting in a group in the middle of a football field.

0:50.6

It's inspired other women around America to do the same.

0:54.1

I'll be talking to a woman here in the UK who also took to screaming with her daughters

0:58.5

during the pandemic. But what about you? Do you scream if you don't? What do you do instead?

1:04.6

How do you get it out? Whatever it is, you need to get out. You can text me here at

1:09.4

Woman's Hour on 84844. Of course, whatever you want to say, I suppose some of you

1:14.7

may send us some of your screams on social media or on voice notes. We can hear those.

1:18.4

On social media, it is at BBC Woman's Hour or email us through our website. Of course,

1:23.4

there'll be some of you thinking, well, I couldn't do that. I wouldn't do that. I didn't

1:26.4

don't dare do that because of the tropes around hysterical women in the way that we're viewed if we

1:31.0

slightly uncontrolled or unhinged. But I think hearing that scream this morning,

1:35.8

it may inspire or it may revile you. You tell me, where are you about screaming? Let me know.

1:41.1

Also, on today's programme, the Health Secretary so-called war on cancer and how it affects

1:46.4

breast cancer. And meet Lazy Susan, the comedy duo dubbed two of the funniest women in the UK.

1:52.9

All that to come. But first, as you've been hearing in the news, Downing Street has said the

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