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Woman's Hour: 'Victoria's' story, Child height, Medical tactile examiners in India, Professor Irene Tracey - University of Oxford

'Victoria's' story, Child height, Medical tactile examiners in India, Professor Irene Tracey - University of Oxford

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, 'Victoria's' story, Child height, Medical tactile examiners in India, Professor Irene Tracey - University of Oxford

'Victoria' - who discovered that her fiancé was secretly filming her naked.

'Victoria' - who discovered that her fiancé was secretly filming her naked, and Professor Irene Tracey, vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford.

Nuala speaks to a woman who discovered by chance that her fiancé was secretly filming her naked in the home they shared.  Victoria, not her real name, reported him to the police and he later pleaded guilty and was convicted on voyeurism charges.  Last month she also won £97,000 in compensation, some of which she is aiming to put towards trying to remove the images he made of her without her consent from the internet.  

According to data gathered from a global network of health scientists, five-year-olds in the UK are on average up to seven centimetres shorter than their peers in other wealthy nations.  To discuss the contributing factors Nuala is joined by Anna Taylor, Executive Director of nutrition charity, The Food Foundation and also by Henry Dimbleby the former government food adviser who's also written a book "Ravenous" about our consumption of ultra processed food.  

In India, the majority of breast cancer cases are diagnosed in the later stages and between 2019 and 2021 less than 1% of women had undergone screening. But a team of blind and partially sighted women are trying to change this by training to become Medical Tactile Examiners where they use their hands to help detect the cancer at its earliest stage. Nuala is joined by Shalini Khanna, Director of The National Association of the Blind India Centre for Blind Women and Leena Chagla, President of the Association of Breast Surgery to discuss.

Professor Irene Tracey is only the second ever female Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. In the last few weeks she has had to deal with several angry protests in Oxford over the appearance of Kathleen Stock at the Oxford Union. She allowed the talk to go ahead, saying, ‘we have to defend free speech’. Professor Tracey joins Nuala to talk about the battle over free speech, as well as what it’s like being a woman in the world of academia. 

Presented by Nuala McGovern
Producer: Louise Corley
Editor: Karen Dalziel

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