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Welcome to Late Night Women's Hour. Thank you very much for joining us. Sam Lauren LeVern.

Here with me to talk life, politics, culture, health and anything else that crosses their mind are.

Neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott, welcome to you.

Hi, Sue. Hi, Sue. Hi, Sue. Hello.

And journalist and academic Zoe Strimple. Thanks for joining us, Zoe.

Pleasure. Okay, so a huge story today following a review, the NHS is halting mesh operations in England.

It's estimated that more than 100,000 UK women have had a mesh fitted. It's a net-like fabric that can be attached into the wall of the vagina to act as a scaffold to support organs like the bladder, to keep them in the right place to help manage incontinence or another

condition called prolapse. Baroness Julia Cumberledge, who chaired the review into Mesh,

said she was appalled at the seriousness and the scale of the tragic stories that her team had

heard. Many women say the implants caused them agony, cutting into

tissue. Some say that they've been left with life-changing injuries. Claire Cooper, who had the

implants, mistakenly had a hysterectomy after doctors were unable to diagnose what was causing her

pain. She was left feeling suicidal and unable to have sex. Hundreds of women are suing the manufacturers of mesh implants.

It's estimated that 100,000 women in the UK have had a mesh fitted.

Now, Sue, we're going to talk about this story with you because you have direct experience of it.

What is that? What can you tell us?

Also, I've got four kids.

And after the birth of my youngest Leah, I was basically

incontinent. I mean, it's quite funny coming on a show like this. It's like the last thing

I would ever want to talk about is being incontinent. But here we are. So, yeah, so basically

I was incontinent after I had Leah. And after about a year of going through

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