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

Suella Braverman is sacked as home secretary, we speak to Lucy Fisher and Claire Pearsall.

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

The gripping ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ One drama β€˜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

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  • Mon 13 Nov 2023 10:00

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