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Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman's Hour: Breast implant rare cancer risk, Ellen Burstyn, Paralympian medallists

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

We hear about the thousands of women suing the breast implant manufacturer Allergan over alleged links with a rare cancer. We have an exclusive interview with a woman who has received a payout from the company after falling sick. Susan Axelby told our reporter Melanie Abbott that she ended up being diagnosed with cancer after having an operation which was supposed to prevent it. Plus, Nuala McGovern was joined by lawyer Sarah Moore to go over details of the case and reveal whether more women in the UK are likely to take action. And Professor Suzanne Turner from Cambridge University discusses her research into this cancer and gives advice to women who have implants, including the fact that the numbers diagnosed are small and it is treatable.

Ellen Burstyn has been a star of American stage and screen for 70 years. This week she received the Liberatum Pioneer Award at the Venice Film Festival for her contribution to cinema and the industry, particularly in paving the way for women. She talks to Krupa Padhy about her stories from a lifetime on camera.

Head teacher Ruth Perry took her own life in January last year whilst waiting for the publication of an Ofsted report she knew would grade her school as "inadequate". Ruth’s sister, Professor Julia Waters, has been campaigning for change in the way Ofsted rates schools ever since. A review was published today into Ofsted's response to Ruth Perry’s death, and this week the Government announced changes to the way the school's inspector for England rates schools. Nuala was joined by Professor Waters to give her response.

From spongy flesh to wandering wombs, there have been many theories about the inner workings of women across the centuries. In her new book, Immaculate Forms, Professor Helen King talks to Anita Rani about how scientific theories and religious beliefs have shaped our understanding of women’s bodies, from Ancient Greece to the present day.

This week we speak to not just one Paralympic medallist but two - Team GB triathletes Lauren Steadman and Claire Cashmore, who won bronze and silver in the Para-triathlon category in PTS5. They join Nuala from Paris.

Presenter: Krupa Padhy Producer: Annette Wells Editor: Rebecca Myatt

Transcript

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0:00.0

My name is Annie Matt Manus and my name is Nick Grimshaw. How long have we known each other babe?

0:05.1

Probably 20 years now and in that time we've always worked in and around music right?

0:10.6

We have. So it kind of makes sense that we do a podcast better.

0:13.4

It sounds like he's been 20 years in the making. It's not a avatar for podcasts, basically,

0:17.6

but it is good. So we put the world to rights with regards to music.

0:21.5

It's all the stuff that you'd want to chat to your mate about over a pint.

0:25.0

Sidetracked with us, Annie and Nick,

0:27.0

listen on BBC Sounds.

0:31.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:34.0

Hello, this is Kruppaparty and you're listening to the Women's Hour podcast.

0:39.0

Welcome to Weekend Women's Hour with me, Kruppaparty.

0:42.0

In the next hour, the first broadcast in 2012. Ken Women's Hour with me, Kruppaparty.

0:42.7

In the next hour, the first broadcast interview with Susan Axelby who developed a rare type of cancer

0:48.8

allegedly linked to her breast implants and who warns that others with similar implants could be walking around like time bombs.

0:56.3

Ellen Burston, the Oscar Emmy and Tony Award winning actor on being an icon and being awarded the Liberum Pioneer Award at the Venice Film Festival.

1:07.0

And the Paralympian rivals and friends, Lawrence Steadman and Claire Cashmore, on their bronze

1:11.4

and silver winds for Team G. Team GB in Paris this week and how their

1:15.2

rivalry spurs them on.

1:17.1

Lauren and I have known each other since, well, she was a very little girl and we went to school

1:22.1

together so I was always the older one probably

1:25.2

bossing her around telling her what to do.

1:27.2

Nothing has changed.

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