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Woman's Hour

Helena Bonham Carter, Power List judges Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson and Ebony Rainford-Brent, Update on Ian Paterson

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Helena Bonham Carter is one of our best known actors – she’s played everyone from Princess Margaret in The Crown and Elizabeth the Queen Mother in The King's Speech, to Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter films, and more recently Enola Holmes’ formidable mother in the Netflix films with Milly Bobby Brown. Helena is now taking on a very different role, that of the Queen of the Midlands Noele Gordon, or Nolly as she was known to her friends; the actress who starred in the hugely popular TV soap Crossroads for 18 years until she was sacked very suddenly in 1981. Russell T Davies has written the three part drama which is released on ITV X on Thursday 2 February. Helena joins Nuala in the studio. Researchers in Canada estimate that approximately one in eight women are likely to be suffering from an unrecognised brain injury related to domestic violence. Millions of dollars are spent each year in Canada studying the impacts of traumatic brain injuries on professional male athlete’s brains, such as hockey players, whilst very little is known about the injuries suffered by female victims of intimate partner violence. Nuala speaks to Karen Mason, co-founder of the Supporting Survivors of Abuse and Brain Injury Through Research project, and a former executive director of the Kelona Women’s Shelter in Canada, and Dr Paul van Donkelaar, a clinical neuroscientist at the University of British Columbia who specialises in concussion research. There's just one more week to get your submissions in for the Woman's Hour Power List, this year focussing on women in sport. It's not just football where the women's game has seen big success - Great Britain’s women’s curling team won a gold medal in Beijing, the 2022 Tour de France Femmes broke records, England and Wales have been confirmed as hosts of Women’s T20 World Cup in 2026 and the list goes on. Nuala is joined by two of our Power List judges Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, one of Britain’s most celebrated British Paralympians of all time, winning 16 medals across five Games, now a cross bench peer in the House of Lords, and Ebony Rainford-Brent, the World Cup winning cricketer and broadcaster. 1500 people who received treatment from jailed breast surgeon Ian Paterson are being recalled by Spire Healthcare, a private hospital company, after their details were recovered from an old computer database. Described as 'one of the biggest medical scandals ever to have hit this country' the man at the centre of it became known as 'the butchering breast surgeon'. Joining Nuala is Jane Kirby, PA Media Health Editor.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, this is Nulem O'Govrin and you're listening to the Woman's Hour podcast.

0:04.7

So glad that you're here.

0:06.7

How is your morning going?

0:08.6

Well, we know that women make up 75% of the teaching workforce.

0:12.8

So we're asking, are you affected by the teacher's strikes today?

0:16.5

I want to know how you feel about them.

0:18.4

I want to know how you're coping with their impact.

0:21.3

And we want to hear from teachers who are striking and teachers who are not and parents.

0:26.9

How's it going?

0:27.9

All views and experience welcome to get in touch with us.

0:31.2

Text us.

0:32.2

The number is 84844 on social media where at BBC Women's Hour or you can email us through

0:37.4

our website.

0:38.8

And you can also send a WhatsApp message or a voice note.

0:42.1

That number is 0370014444.

0:47.3

Now last night I watched an episode of the ITV drama Nully, the glorious Helena Bonham

0:53.3

Carter playing Null Gordon who played Meg Richardson in the soap crossroads.

0:58.2

Now if you don't remember crossroads or maybe you never watched it, no matter.

1:02.2

The story of Null, nicknamed Nully, is a fascinating one.

1:05.9

She was called Queen of the Midlands and she said that she actually invented daytime TV.

1:11.2

But she was sacked unceremoniously after 18 years on the show.

1:15.6

We're going to explore why and also why so much of Nully's story resonates today.

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