A Ripe Old Age
Fyfe Robertson says he doesn't have to tell you why Dame Josephine Barnes , who was among the first women surgeons, has been elected the 139th and first woman President of the British Medical Association. Seeing Dame Jose phine , head-scarved, in a supermarket, you would take her to be a housewife whose problems and achievements are domestic. But she is an international authority on obstetrics and gynaecology - and, at 67, she is doing more surgery than ever.
Producer TOM SAVAGE