Weekend Woman's Hour: Emma Webber & Sinead O'Malley Kumar, Gender Dysphoria research, Daisy May Cooper

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Anita Rani speaks to Emma Webber and Sinead O’Malley Kumar, mothers of Barnaby and Grace, both 19, who were killed in Nottingham in June 2023. They’ll be responding to the findings of a major review of the NHS care of Valdo Calocane, the man who attacked their children.

The Oscar-nominated actress Mikey Madison tells Clare McDonnell about playing the title role in Anora, a film about a sex worker in New York. Mikey spent months embedded in a strip club to fully immerse herself in the world. The film is nominated for six Academy Awards as well as BAFTAs and Golden Globes.

New research has quantified for the first time how many young people have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria by GPs in England. Anita hears from Professor of Health Policy, Tim Doran, about the work academics at the University of York are doing. They studied a decade’s worth of NHS records and discovered a 50-fold increase in this particular diagnosis between 2011 and 2021. However each general practice will only see one or two such patients each year.

The West End star Marisha Wallace, the latest actor to play Sally Bowles in Cabaret at The Kit Kat Club in London, performs a song from the show.

The actor and writer Daisy May Cooper talks to Clare McDonnell about the second series of the BBC female-friendship thriller, Am I Being Unreasonable, which she both co-wrote and stars in.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor: Rebecca Myatt

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Greg Jenner. I'm the host of Your Dead to Me, where the best names in comedy and history
0:05.5	join me to learn about and laugh at the past. You are a traitor. And in the new series, we'll meet
0:11.2	Aristotle. I think he might have been a time traveller. Someone who's like almost a glitch.
0:15.3	We'll dive into the causes of the British Civil Wars in the 1600s. In England at this period,
0:19.8	there's people can't get on the housing ladder. This sounds familiar. And we'll discover the arts and crafts movement.
0:25.3	I love the clothes. I love the vibe. Yes, we're a comedy show that takes history seriously
0:29.3	and then laughs at it. You're dead to me. Listen first on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio,
0:36.9	podcasts. Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:43.2	Just to say that for rights reasons, the music in the original radio broadcast has been removed for this podcast.
0:49.8	Hello and welcome to another packed programme where we've collated a selection of the standout
0:55.4	moments from the week just gone. So coming up. Emma Weber and Sheneid O'Malley Kumar, the mothers
1:02.5	of Barnaby Weber and Grace O'Malley Kumar, who were killed in Nottingham in June 2023 by Valdo Calacane.
1:10.7	They gave their reaction to the 300-page report made public this
1:14.2	week, admitting how the system got it wrong with his care and treatment. We have the young actor
1:20.7	enjoying a huge Oscar buzz right now, Mikey Madison, as she's nominated for Best Actress for
1:26.6	her lead role in the the film Anora.
1:29.3	There's been a 50-fold increase in the number of young people who are diagnosed with gender dysphoria since 2011.
1:35.3	We'll hear about a new report that has for the first time quantified the actual figures.
1:40.9	A performance from the West End star Marisha Wallace, the latest actor to play Sally Bowles
1:46.0	in the musical cabaret, and the actor and writer Daisy May Cooper on the second series of
1:51.4	her BBC comedy thriller, Am I Being Unreasonable, and the online forum that inspired it.
1:56.6	These incredible women who I will never meet and they will never know that it was me
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