@misc{ title = {Woman's Hour}, publisher = {Radio 4}, pages = {58 minutes}, month = {7 October 1946 on the Light Programme.  Transferred to Radio 4 in 1973   Note:  In 1967 the Light Programme had been replaced by Radios 1 and 2 and the Home Service with Radio 4.}, note = {see David Hendy Life on Air: A History of Radio Four, 2007, OUP, p332.}, abstract = {Weekly current affairs and general interest magazine series for women.By the 1980s it was joined by Weekend Woman's Hour, on Sundays at 11.15 am.}, year = {1946-} } @misc{ title = {Doctors in Trouble}, month = {13 July 1979}, abstract = {From Wales: Valley Doctors are leaving because they can't cope with the workload.}, year = {1979} } @misc{ title = {SUE HEMMING ‘NURSE OF THE YEAR’ TALKS ABOUT HER WORK IN THE COMMUNITY}, month = {24 August 1979}, abstract = {Sue Hemming joined Jenni Murray (Live) in the Bristol studio to talk about her award as ‘Nurse of the Year’}, year = {1979} } @misc{ title = {There & Back (recovering from Mental Illness)}, month = {29 July 1979}, keywords = {mental illness}, year = {1979} } @misc{ title = {Doctor Lotte Newman}, month = {28 May 1980}, abstract = {Dr Lotte Newman of the Medical Womans Federation talks to Sue MacGregor on the Centenery of the first meeting of the Registered Medical Women.}, year = {1980} } @misc{ title = {GUEST OF THE WEEK:DR JOHN HORDER}, month = {17 December 1980}, year = {1980} } @misc{ title = {Here & Now}, month = {1 June 1980}, abstract = {Richard Jameson about mental illness.}, keywords = {mental illness}, year = {1980} } @misc{ title = {TALKING POINT-REPORT ON HOSPITALS FOR THE MENTALLY ILL}, month = {21 February 1980}, keywords = {mental illness}, year = {1980} } @misc{ title = {TALKING POINT: PATIENT PARTICIPATION (LIVE)}, month = {15 January 1980}, year = {1980} } @misc{ title = {The Incubabies}, month = {28 March 1980}, abstract = {Cy Percival joins Manchester’s unique ambulance incubator team and reports on the team in action.}, keywords = {ambulance: babies}, year = {1980} } @misc{ title = {AIDS AND BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS (unbilled)}, month = {6 October 1983}, keywords = {Aids}, year = {1983} } @misc{ title = {ELDERLY MENTALLY ILL: Service for the elderly mentally ill in East Riding.}, month = {22 June 1983}, abstract = {ELDERLY MENTALLY ILL: Service for the elderly mentally ill in East Riding.}, year = {1983} } @misc{ title = {Ffyona Campbell and Cancer Fund}, month = {10 October 1983}, abstract = {Interview with FFYONA CAMPBELL who completed a sponsored walk from John O’ Groats to Lands End to raise money for the Royal Marsden Hospital CANCER FUND.}, keywords = {cancer}, year = {1983} } @misc{ title = {Heart transplant}, month = {21 January 1983}, abstract = {From Manchester: MARJORIE LOFTHOUSE talks to KEITH BROOK, who underwent a heart transplant operation a year ago, and his wife COLETTE BROOK.}, keywords = {heart transplant}, year = {1983} } @misc{ title = {NHS Cuts}, month = {18 October 1983}, note = {THE SCRIPT OF THE PROGRAMME DOES NOT EXIST IN BBC WRITTEN ARCHIVES}, abstract = {NHS CUTS Jill Burridge visits Charing Cross Hospital to see how they tackle the cuts. INTERVIEW: Kenneth Clarke Minister for Health on NHS cuts}, keywords = {NHS: cuts}, year = {1983} } @misc{ title = {PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE (unbilled)}, month = {7 February 1983}, abstract = {The Templegarth Trust: a health organisation in Lincolnshire}, keywords = {charity}, year = {1983} } @misc{ title = {RCN report on continence}, month = {7 June 1983}, abstract = {INTERVIEW about the Royal College of Nursing’s report (with Squibb Surgicare) called “The Problem of Promoting Continence”.}, year = {1983} } @misc{ title = {TALKING POINT: HOSPITALS FOR WOMEN RUN BY WOMEN-ARE THEY SOMETHING TO FIGHT FOR OR AN ANACHRONISM?}, month = {8 February 1983}, keywords = {hospitals: women}, year = {1983} } @misc{ title = {Falling on Deaf Ears?  Modern living}, publisher = {Radio 4}, pages = {58 minutes}, month = {7 January 1985}, abstract = {What effect does the constant buzz, clatter and screech of modern living have on health? Introduced by Liz Mardall. Jenny Cuffe Investigates.}, year = {1985} } @misc{ title = {Prime Minister, The Rt. Hon Margaret Thatcher, MP: Guest of the week}, publisher = {Radio 4}, pages = {58 minutes}, month = {16 January 1985}, year = {1985} } @misc{ title = {A&E Belfast}, month = {29 April 1988}, abstract = {Wendy Austin talked to sister Kate O’ Hanlon from the Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast about her twenty years service with the hospital and her work in the accident and emergency department.}, keywords = {A&E: Northern Ireland}, year = {1988} } @misc{ title = {Aids and Racism}, month = {4 July 1988}, abstract = {Jenny Cuffe looked into evidence that AIDS in Britain is being used to play racial tension. She questioned experts on the treatment given to AIDS sufferers and questioned the prejudice.}, keywords = {Aids: racism}, year = {1988} } @misc{ title = {Child Health}, month = {16 December 1988}, abstract = {From Glasgow: Mary Marquis interviewing Prof. Gavin Arneil retired Professor of Child Health at Yorkhill Hospital, Glasgow.}, keywords = {children}, year = {1988} } @misc{ title = {Children's Spectacles}, month = {23 May 1988}, abstract = {When children’s National Health Service glasses were withdrawn in 1986 a voucher system was introduced…Jenny Clew, editor of “Jump” magazine talked to Felicity Quavatre about the successes and failures of the system.}, keywords = {children: eyesight: NHS}, year = {1988} } @misc{ title = {Christine Hancock of RCN}, month = {3 November 1988}, abstract = {Pat Rowe talks with the new General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, Christine Hancock, about the issues confronting the nursing profession.}, keywords = {nurses: RCN}, year = {1988} } @misc{ title = {EDWINA CURRIE MP}, month = {17 March 1988}, note = {At a time when it later transpired she was having an affair with  government minister John Major, Edwina Currie promotes the virtues of fidelity}, abstract = {INTERVIEW: EDWINA CURRIE MP Jenni Murray spoke to the Minister with special responsibility for women’s health about government’s response to the problems of cervical cancer.}, keywords = {cervical cancer}, year = {1988} } @misc{ title = {Employment issues at ADDENBROOKES HOSPITAL, CAMBRIDGE}, month = {12 October 1988}, abstract = {Members of the Medical Records Department talk about why they’re being left behind in the pay stakes, as their work is administrative and not directly concerned in looking after the patients.}, keywords = {industrial relations: pay: hospital}, year = {1988} } @misc{ title = {Female Gynaecologists}, month = {25 February 1988}, abstract = {In the last twenty-five years the number of women consultants in obstetrics and gynaecology has remained at 12% although four times as many women now qualify in medicine as a whole. Tessa Shaw investigated why this is so.}, keywords = {women: gynaecology}, year = {1988} } @misc{ title = {INTERNATONAL AIDS CONFERENCE}, month = {28 January 1988}, note = {Dr Elphis Christopher took part in several controversial This Week television programmes on sex education in the 1970s, including a debate with moral purity campaigner, Mary Whitehouse. (see P.Holland The Angry Buzz I.B.Tauris 2006 pp81-2}, abstract = {Nick Newman visited the International AIDS Conference and examined the ways in which various countries are educating people about the dangers of AIDS. Includes an interview with Dr Elphis Christopher.}, keywords = {Aids: sex edication}, year = {1988} } @misc{ title = {Medical Records Act}, month = {20 December 1988}, abstract = {Jenni Murray spoke to Dr Vivienne Nathanson, Assistant Secretary of the BMA, about the Access to Medical Records Act which comes into force from the 1st January 1989.}, year = {1988} } @misc{ title = {Mentally handicapped children}, month = {1 March 1988}, abstract = {From Wales.  Sian Roberts investigates a special strategy to move mentally handicapped children away from institutions and into family homes, and talks to two mothers about what it’s really like to foster a child with special needs.}, keywords = {children: mental handicap: fostering}, year = {1988} } @misc{ title = {Midwives}, month = {3 October 1988}, note = {Woman's Hour item on Chris Warren was 13 September 1988}, abstract = {An in-depth report on midwifery following the Woman’s Hour report on the case of dismissed midwife Chris Warren (13-9-88). Anne Taylor talked to Chris, and to another midwife Jilly Rosser, who was dismissed for rushing an expectant mother to hospital rather wait for an ambulance; and to various experts from the world of childbirth, including Wendy Savage.  Live from Earls Court.}, year = {1988} } @misc{ title = {Midwives: Chris Warren}, month = {13 September 1988}, note = {This programme was followed up with an in depth report on 3 October 1988.}, abstract = {On the day Chris Warren, a midwide dismissed by Croydon Health Authority for not complying with their regulations, appeals against her sacking Anne Taylor talks to one of her colleagues and some mothers delivered by Chris who were protesting outside the hearing.}, year = {1988} } @misc{ title = {Professor Lesley Rees}, month = {7 September 1988}, abstract = {Jenni Murray spoke to Professor Lesley Rees who has just been made the new Dean of St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, one of the country’s leading teaching hospitals.}, keywords = {hospitals}, year = {1988} } @misc{ title = {Randy Schilts and Aids}, month = {3 March 1988}, abstract = {Following the publication of his book “And the Band Played On” Randy Schilts spoke to Jenni Murray about the spread of AIDS and the need for resources to fight the disease}, keywords = {Aids}, year = {1988} } @misc{ title = {ROYAL NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR RHEUMATIC DISEASES}, month = {15 April 1988}, abstract = {Clare Williams visited Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases in Bath which is celebrating its 250th birthday. Clare spoke to patients doctors and therapists about the hospital’s past present and future.}, keywords = {hospitals: rheumatic diseases}, year = {1988} } @misc{ title = {TALKING POINT: FUNDING THE NHS}, month = {31 May 1988}, abstract = {President of the Institute of Health Services Management, Barbara Young and Harriet Harman MP debate the NHS cash crisis with Jenni Murray.}, keywords = {NHS: cuts}, year = {1988} } @misc{ title = {TALKING POINT: MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE}, month = {15 September 1988}, abstract = {Wyn Pocket Chair of the Association of Community Health Councils, Dr John Harvard Secretary of the British Medical Association and Jenni Murray discuss the present system in case of medical negligence. Can it be improved? They also talk about the 'no fault' compensation policy where negligence may be paid for, but without laying the blame on any one doctor.}, keywords = {Community Health Councils: medical negligence}, year = {1988} } @misc{ title = {Transplant Co-Ordinator}, month = {28 March 1988}, abstract = {Celia Wight, who co-ordinates transplant surgery at the Addenbrooks Hospital in Cambridge talked to Pat Rowe about what her job entails.}, keywords = {Hospital: heart}, year = {1988} } @misc{ title = {BMA}, month = {10 July 1989}, abstract = {The BMA is currently enjoying the highest profile it ever had since the health service was set up in 1948. They were then against some of the govt. proposals for the new service-now they are defending the status quo to the hilt, with ads, leaflets and videos which amount to a health warning against the govt’s plan for the NHS as laid out in the White Paper. Dame Rosemary Rue is the president elect helping to steer the BMA through this turbulent period in it’s history. She spoke to Jenni Murray.}, keywords = {A&E Northern Ireland}, year = {1989} } @misc{ title = {Dirty Hospitals}, month = {11 October 1989}, abstract = {Jenny Cuffe investigated the standard of hygiene in Britain’s hospitals which is becoming a growing concern with patients, local authorities and staff.}, keywords = {hospitals:}, year = {1989} } @misc{ title = {Hysterectomy}, publisher = {Radio 4}, pages = {58 minutes}, month = {9 January 1989}, abstract = {Women who have had hysterectomies describe their experiences, their feelings and their reactions to the operation that is seen by some as controversial, by others as commonplace.}, keywords = {hysterectomy}, year = {1989} } @misc{ title = {MIND: Ros Hepplewhite}, month = {18 July 1989}, abstract = {The new director of MIND Ros Hepplewhite is coming to the charity from the National Health Service (she was one of the first of the new style “general” managers). She told Jenni Murray what’s it going to be like being on the other side of the fence-not holding the purse strips.}, keywords = {charity: MIND: mental health: NHS}, year = {1989} } @misc{ title = {Smoking and teenage girls}, month = {19 December 1989}, abstract = {INTERVIEW: DONALD REID The Health Education Authority has launched a ten million pound campaign to prevent teenagers, and particularly teenage girls, from smoking. Emma Selby asked the programme director, Donald Reid, why the campaign is being targeted at the eleven to fifteen year old group.}, keywords = {Health Education Authority: teenagers: smoking}, year = {1989} } @misc{ title = {Susan Sontag on Aids}, month = {15 March 1989}, abstract = {INTERVIEW: SUSAN SONTAG, AUTHOR OF ‘AIDS AND ITS METAPHORS’, talks about why she thinks the language we use to describe AIDS is dangerous and unhelpful. TAPE: Government Health Warning on AIDS issued by the Central Office of Information}, keywords = {Aids}, year = {1989} } @misc{ title = {Talking Point: The Health Consipiracy}, month = {18 January 1989}, abstract = {David Taylor (Director of Public and Economic Affairs at the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry) and Dr Joe Collier author of The Health Conspiracy (Century at £ 4.95) talk to Jenni Murray about prescription drugs.}, keywords = {pharmaceutical industry: drugs}, year = {1989} } @misc{ title = {Women and smoking}, month = {31 May 1989}, abstract = {Dr Bobbie Jacobson from the Action on Smoking and Health (Ash) Women and Smoking Group. On 'world no smoking day' she talks about the latest research that suggests that more women are smoking now than ever before.}, keywords = {Ash: smoking: women}, year = {1989} } @misc{ title = {Women GP's}, month = {27 April 1989}, abstract = {Today GPs are holding a special conference to prepare their response to the Government’s White Paper and the proposed changes to their terms of service. One of the issues they will be discussing is the effect of the plans on women GP’s. One in five GPs is a woman, but there’s concern that figure could drop-meaning less choice for the consumer.}, keywords = {GPs: white paper:}, year = {1989} }