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Woman's Hour: Post botulinum toxin experiences, Photographing all your objects, FGM

Post botulinum toxin experiences, Photographing all your objects, FGM

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Post botulinum toxin experiences, Photographing all your objects, FGM

New research into adverse events following the administration of botulinum toxin.

There has been a significant increase in the number of non-surgical aesthetic procedures over the past decade. And now the largest academic survey to date in the UK has just been published, relating the lived experience of over 500 people who have experienced an adverse event following administration of Botulinum Toxin. The study finds that a lack of awareness of reporting structures and the lack of regulation within the UK’s cosmetic injectables sector represents a significant public health challenge.  Nuala is joined by the senior author of the study Ash Mosahebi, Professor of Plastic Surgery, and by Genee Schock who took part in the survey and runs a side effects support group for people impacted.

How much time would it take to photograph every single item in your home? Photographer Barbara Iweins spent four years documenting the 12,795 objects she owns.  Barbara wanted 'to see the representation – flat on the ground – of a mother and her children.' She joins Nuala.

Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza is the leader of the opposition in Rwanda.  She talks to Nuala about the challenges facing women and girls in Rwanda as well as the proposed UK-Rwanda asylum plan.

Tributes are being paid to the former Labour MP Ann Clwyd, who has died at the age of 86.  Not only Wales' longest-serving woman MP, Ann also became known as a passionate human rights campaigner, committing herself to many causes, including the banning of FGM - female genital mutilation - in the UK.  In 2003 she introduced the Female Genital Mutilation Act, making it illegal to take a girl out of the UK to undergo FGM in another country.  Nuala is joined by Hibo Wardere, anti-FGM activist and author of Cut.

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