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Woman's Hour: Lana Clarkson, Cosmetic Fillers, Confessions of a Duchess, Debut novel Girl A

Lana Clarkson, Cosmetic Fillers, Confessions of a Duchess, Debut novel Girl A

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Lana Clarkson, Cosmetic Fillers, Confessions of a Duchess, Debut novel Girl A

Lana Clarkson, and the prevalence of bodged fillers and what can be done about it.

Lana Clarkson, prevalence of bodged fillers, Girl A.

Music producer Phil Spector who has just died in a California jail  was serving a life sentence for the murder of the actor Lana Clarkson. Lana Clarkson starred in a number of  1980s B movie sci-fi films like "Barbarian Queen"  but at the time she met Spector she was working in a bar.   Emma is joined by the biographer of Phil Spector,  journalist and author Mick Brown.
New exclusive research by reporter Melanie Abbott for Woman's Hour has found more and more aesthetic doctors and nurses are treating women for mistakes made injecting fillers by untrained practitioners. Melanie Abbott, Sharon Bennett  from the British Association of Cosmetic Nurses and Labour MP Carolyn Harris from the all party parliamentary group on Beauty, Aesthetics and Wellbeing join Emma.
Duchess is the new podcast from Duchess of Rutland Emma Manners and daughter Lady Violet  in which they talk to  titled women who are responsible for ancestral piles around the UK.   They have their own huge place,  Belvoir Castle, and they join Emma to discuss the pros and cons of running such a business.
We've all seen images in the press of houses where terrible things happened and heard stories of children held captive by their parents. Abigail Dean's first novel 'Girl A' is told by Lex the survivor, the one who flagged down a car and escaped from 'The House of Horrors'. It explores the impact on 'Girl A', as she was dubbed, of childhood trauma. She and her six siblings have different stories and different outcomes - what happens to those left behind when the headlines and the fascination fall away?

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