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Woman's Hour: Actress Cherry Jones; Professor Alexis Jay, the chair of the inquiry into child sexual abuse

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08/02/2017

Actress Cherry Jones; Professor Alexis Jay, the chair of the inquiry into child sexual abuse

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Actress Cherry Jones; Professor Alexis Jay, the chair of the inquiry into child sexual abuse

Actor Cherry Jones; Prof Alexis Jay; could some women with breast cancer avoid chemo?

Cherry Jones on her role as Amanda in the Glass Menagerie. Could some women with breast cancer avoid chemotherapy? Prof Alexis Jay on the progress of her report into child abuse.

Cherry Jones - award winning actress best known for her role as President of the United States in the TV series 24, talks to Jenni about that role and many others . She's just taken on the iconic role of ageing Southern Belle Amanda in Tennesse Williams' play The Glass Menagerie. What's it feels like to achieve her childhood ambition of appearing on the West End stage?
Professor Alexis Jay, Chair of the Inquiry Into Child Sexual Abuse and author of the Jay Report into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham, joins us as we mark Sexual Abuse & Sexual Violence Awareness Week. She talks about lessons learnt from Rotherham, the huge impact of her report, taking on the chairmanship, the progress that's been made, and her desire to increase awareness of the nature and extent of abuse. 
Plus could thousands of women with breast cancer could avoid chemotherapy? Nigel Bundred Professor of Surgical Oncology University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust will be talking about the findings of a new study. 
And ahead of a new BBC drama 'The Moorside' set around the fake kidnapping of nine year old Shannon Matthews, nine years ago, we talk Natalie Murray one of the the women in the community who worked to find her.

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Producer Beverley Purcell.

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