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Woman's Hour

Suella Braverman sacked as home secretary, Natalie Cassidy, Breast Cancer treatment

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Following a weekend of speculation, the most senior woman in government Suella Braverman has been sacked from her role as Home Secretary. To discuss Emma is joined by Lucy Fisher, the Whitehall Editor for the Financial Times; and Claire Pearsall, former Home Office special advisor under Amber Rudd and Sajid Javid.

The gripping BBC One drama ‘Time’ focuses on the stories of three women, and shows the stark differences for female and male prisoners. Emma is joined by Time’s screenwriter, Helen Black, who has first-hand experience of the criminal justice system from her past career in the law, and Lady Unchained, who was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for grievous bodily harm following a fight in a club while trying to protect her sister. She is now a poet, performer and broadcaster.

The actor Natalie Cassidy pays tribute to the late Anna Scher who taught children in North London to act for more than 50 years.

How is our interaction with AI shifting our concepts of intimacy and sexuality as humans? Emma Barnett talks to the Kate Devlin Kate Devlin who’s a Reader Artificial Intelligence & Society at King's College London and the author of Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots, and to Trudy Barber, Senior Lecturer at Portsmouth University in Media Studies.

Tens of thousands of women in England could benefit from a drug that helps prevent breast cancer. Anastrozole, used for many years to treat the disease, has now been licensed as a preventative option, and almost 300 thousand women will be eligible to take it. But is it as big a step forwards as it seems? Former surgeon and breast cancer survivor Dr Liz O’Riordan joins Emma to discuss.

Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Emma Pearce

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan

0:05.2

I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy

0:10.2

podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really.

0:13.0

Comedy is a fantastic joyous thing to do because really you're making people laugh,

0:18.0

making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things.

0:22.0

But you know I also know that comedy is really

0:24.4

subjective and everyone has different tastes so we've got a huge range of comedy on offer

0:29.6

from satire to silly shocking to soothing profound to just general pratting about. So if you

0:36.2

fancy a laugh, find your next comedy at BBC Sounds.

0:41.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:45.0

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

0:50.0

Good morning and welcome to the program.

0:52.0

It's quite the Monday morning in Downing Street, far from a quiet start.

0:55.5

Suella Braverman, the most senior woman in the government as you've been hearing on the news, has gone, sacked by the Prime Minister.

1:02.1

And now is it jobs for the boys, the old boys, an amazing sight this morning, David Cameron strolling down Downing Street to see Rishi Sunak.

1:10.0

It's officially just being confirmed, I can bring you this breaking news that he has been

1:14.7

appointed foreign secretary. The former Prime Minister David Cameron is back in the fold as a

1:22.0

Secretary of State, the Foreign Secretary.

1:25.4

He's not an MP, presumably he will have been made,

1:28.4

made a peer, a peer of the realm to be taking on this role.

1:31.6

David Cameron is back as Foreign Secretary

1:34.1

Suella Braverman is out as Home Secretary and James Cleverly is in or across the table

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