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Woman's Hour

Nottingham Ockendon review, Sarah Vine, Frida Kahlo at Tate Modern

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

More than 500 mothers and babies came to harm or died as a result of inadequate care at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. That’s according to Donna Ockenden’s review into the maternity services there. Anita Rani speaks to the Times’ Health Editor Eleanor Hayward, and mothers Sarah Hawkins and Sarah Andrews whose babies, Harriet and Wynter, both died from preventable errors.

Sarah Vine’s memoir, How Not to Be a Political Wife, is out in paperback this week, coinciding with the 10 year anniversary of the Brexit vote. The Daily Mail columnist was married to the former Conservative minister Michael Gove, a leading figure in the campaign for the UK to leave the European Union. She gives Anita her take on some of the most turbulent years in modern British politics, and how the pressures affected her friendships, her family, and ultimately her marriage.

Over half of women diagnosed with breast cancer are outside the current 50-70 age range for screening, according to new research by a youth focused breast cancer awareness charity. It's calling for the age of women given screening to be lowered. Anita is joined by Sophie Dopierala-Bull, Director of Services and Engagement at CoppaFeel!

A new exhibition at the Tate Modern in London looks at how and why the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo became a global icon and a key influence on a generation of artists. Anita speaks to Bea Garcia, co-curator of the exhibition Frida - the making of an icon, and author Hettie Judah.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:06.9

Hi, I'm Zing Singh.

0:08.3

And I'm Simon Jack.

0:09.3

And together we host Good Bad Billionaire.

0:11.4

The podcast exploring how some of the world's richest people made their fortunes.

0:15.2

And we're back for a new season with a brand new lineup of billionaires.

0:18.6

Yeah, global pop icon Beyonce.

0:20.6

Hollywood movie director Stephen Spielberg.

0:22.8

Football superstar Christiana Rinaldo, anyone?

0:25.2

And as ever, we're asking you to decide whether they're good, bad or just another billionaire.

0:30.0

That's good, bad, billionaire.

0:31.3

Listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:34.6

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

0:40.0

Good morning and welcome to the programme.

0:43.0

Senior midwife Donna Ockenden has spent three years looking into maternity services at Nottingham University Hospital's NHS Trust.

0:51.2

The damning report which came out yesterday involved two and a half thousand families,

0:55.9

the biggest childbirth scandal in NHS history. We'll be finding out the details and speaking to

1:01.7

two of the bereaved mothers. Daily Mail columnist and ex-wife of Michael Gove, Sarah Vine,

1:07.5

will be here to talk about the paperback release of her memoir. She was in the inner sanctum of the Conservative Party with her ex,

1:14.0

best friends with the Camerons,

1:15.5

until the Brexit vote ended their friendship.

1:18.9

And a major new exhibition about Frida Carlo called Frida,

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