Lolita Chakrabarti, Ian Paterson investigations, Therapy speak, Child sexual abuse in Uganda, Girls World

Published: April 17, 2023, 1 p.m.

Ian Paterson, who became known as the butchering breast surgeon, is currently serving a 20-year jail term after being convicted of 17 counts of wounding with intent and 3 counts of unlawful wounding. Now the Sunday Times has revealed that 27 inquests have been opened as a result of investigating the deaths of 650 of his patients. Nuala speaks to campaigner Debbie Douglas, who was one of Mr Paterson\u2019s patients, and the Sunday Times Health Editor Shaun Lintern.

Is 'therapy speak' making us selfish? The prescriptive language of the therapist\u2019s couch has slowly seeped into everyday life, particularly online where words like \u2018boundaries\u2019, \u2018self-care\u2019 and \u2018narcissist\u2019 are increasingly common. But when it comes to friendships, is the idea of self-care making us give up on them too easily? Sociologist and writer Amy Charlotte Kean talks to Nuala about how our relationships are being affected.

In the next in the Woman\u2019s Hour Girl\u2019s World series, Ena Miller has been talking to three girls in Glasgow, Saskia, Francesca and Olivia all of whom are 13 and 14 years of age. We often talk about girls and their lives on Woman\u2019s Hour but we rarely talk to them, so Ena asks them - do they feel listened to?

Award-winning playwright and actor Lolita Chakrabarti joins Nuala in the Woman's Hour studio to talk about the new play 'Hamnet'. Maggie O\u2019Farrell\u2019s best-selling novel of the same name tells the story of the death of Shakespeare\u2019s 11 year old son as she would have us believe it happened. Having sold more than 1.5m copies the story has now moved from paper to stage at the RSC in Stratford Upon Avon thanks to an adaptation by Lolita. She'll tell us why she was so drawn to telling the story of the people around Shakespeare.

A new BBC Africa Eye documentary, Uganda\u2019s Stolen Innocence, investigates the increasing levels of sexual violence and incest in Uganda, particularly in the North. Documentary producer Nicola Milne and Ugandan lawyer Eunice Lakaraber Latim join Nuala to talk about the lack of faith in the justice system and how the legacy of the insurgency led by Joseph Kony fuelled this issue further.