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Woman's Hour: Dame Joan Collins, Universities and sexual misconduct, Dr Ophira Ginsburg - a feminist approach to cancer

Dame Joan Collins, Universities and sexual misconduct, Dr Ophira Ginsburg - a feminist approach to cancer

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Dame Joan Collins, Universities and sexual misconduct, Dr Ophira Ginsburg - a feminist approach to cancer

Dame Joan Collins at 90 and on her new memoir, Behind the Shoulder Pads.

Dame Joan Collins - 7 decades on stage and screen. How equipped are universities to investigate complex sexual misconduct cases? Dr Ophira Ginsburg: a feminist approach to cancer.

Dame Joan Collins has dominated the stage and screen for over seven decades, starting her career at just 17. Best known for her roles in the 1980s TV phenomenon Dynasty and Hollywood Golden Age films, she has written a new memoir Behind the Shoulder Pads: Tales I Tell My Friends. She speaks to Emma about her glittering career, sexism in Hollywood and turning 90. 

Students are more likely than other groups of people to be subjected to sexual assault. A study soon to be published by researchers at Oxford University has found that one in four female students at the university had experienced some sort of sexual assault in the preceding year. Now, universities are said to be spending increasingly more of their time investigating complex sexual misconduct cases. But how equipped and effective are they in investigating such cases? And why are students putting their faith in university hearings rather than going to the police?   Emma discusses with Professor Steve West, Vice Chancellor of University of West of England, Eleanor Laws KC, leading criminal barrister and Geraldine Swanton, a  lawyer working with the higher and further education sector.

A new report from a commission at the medical journal The Lancet looks at how cancer disproportionately impacts women.  “Women, Power and Cancer” puts the case forward for an intersectional feminist approach to cancer - with the goal of transforming the ways women interact with the cancer health system.  The commission has been headed up by Dr Ophira Ginsburg from the National Cancer Institute in the US.

Presented by Emma Barnett
Producer: Louise Corley

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