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The first successful heart transplant baby, 25 years on, Pimps and Hoes student nights, Breast Ironing and Agent Rose

Presented by Jenni Murray. Kaylee Davidson-Olley: the longest-surviving person in the UK to have had a heart transplant.

Presented by Jenni Murray. It's 25 years since the first successful baby heart transplant took place. Kaylee Davidson-Olley was just five months old when she received her new heart and is the longest-surviving person in the UK to have had a heart transplant as a baby. As the new academic year gets under way, there are plenty of party nights and social events being organised to help students make new friends. But a series of student party nights with the fancy dress theme of Pimps and Hoes is causing controversy, with women's groups and MPs calling for the events to be cancelled because they trivialise prostitution and violence against women. Are they just part of the fun, or do they point to a worrying increase in misogynistic attitudes amongst university students? In Cameroon millions of young girls are being subjected to a painful practice known as breast ironing. Mothers use hot stones or heated utensils, such as spoons or pestles, to flatten the developing breasts of adolescent girls in a bid to protect them from unwanted sexual attention. Margaret Nyuydzewira from CAME, a women's community group in London talks about what can be done to protect girls from this barbaric practice. 89 year old Eileen Nearne died alone, after spending her last years as a virtual recluse, but she had a remarkable secret. When council officers searched Eileen's home they found documents which revealed that during the war she'd been an agent for the Special Operations Executive in Nazi-occupied France. Agent Rose is the first biography of Eileen Nearne, and its author Bernard O'Connor joins Jenni to talk about her amazing story.

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  • The first successful baby heart transplant, 25 years on

    Jenni talks to Kaylee Davidson-Olley and her mother Carol.

    Duration: 09:47

  • Breast Ironing

    Margaret Nyuydzewira explains what this painful practice is and how it originated.

    Duration: 09:32

  • Agent Rose

    Bernard O’Connor talks about Eileen Nearne, the wartime heroine who died a lonely death.

    Duration: 10:08

  • Pimps and Hoes Parties

    Rachael O’Byrne, a Liverpool councillor and Paul Dillon Bahia from Carnage UK discuss.

    Duration: 11:57

Kaylee Davidson-Olley

It's 25 years since the first successful baby heart transplant took place at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle. ÌýThe recipient, Kaylee Davidson-Olley was just 5 months old at the time. She is now the longest-surviving person in the UK to have had a heart transplant as a baby.Ìý She’s just celebrated the anniversary along with 30 other baby heart transplant recipients – the largest gathering ever held in the UK.Ìý She joins Jenni with along with her mother, Carol Olley.Ìý

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To find out how to join the NHS Organ Donor Register, visit tjhe Ìýor contact the Organ Donor Line on 0300 123 23 23 or text SAVE to 84118.ÌýÌý

Breast Ironing

In Cameroon millions of young girls are being subjected to a painful practice known as breast ironing.Ìý Mothers use hot stones or heated utensils such as spoons or pestles to flatten the developing breasts of adolescent girls in a bid to protect them from unwanted sexual attention.

Many victims suffer permanent problems as a result, including ulcers and abscesses, and damage to the milk ducts which make it difficult to breast feed.Ìý Now CAME, a women’s community group in London is trying to raise awareness of the practice and Jenni isÌýjoined by Margaret NyuydzewiraÌýfrom CAME.Ìý

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Agent Rose

In 2010, the body of an 89-year-old woman was discovered in her flat in Torquay. ÌýÌýShe was Eileen Nearne and had lived as a virtual recluse. ÌýNo family came forward, and the council set about arranging her burial. ÌýTo her neighbours she was a shy old lady who loved cats, however Eileen was no ordinary pensioner: Ìýa search of her house revealed she’d been one of 40 women sent into France by the SOE, Churchill’s wartime spy operation.Ìý She was captured by the Germans, interrogated and tortured before being sent to a concentration camp from where she made a daring escape. ÌýÌýAgent Rose, written by Bernard O’Connor tells the story of her wartime exploits and how a national heroine came to be living in obscurity, and died a lonely death.

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Agent Rose: The True Spy Story of Eileen Nearne is published by Amberley

Pimps and Hoes student party nights

As the new academic year gets under way, there are plenty of party nights and social events being organised to help students make new friends. But a series of student party nights with the fancy dress theme of Pimps and Hoes is causing controversy, with women’s groups, and MPs calling for the events to be cancelled because they trivialise prostitution and violence against women. The organisers, Carnage UK say that the theme of the night is chosen by the students themselves, is very popular and is no different to the kinds of events organised by many Student Unions around the country. So are these nights a one-off or part of an increasingly misogynistic attitude to women amongst university students? Jenni is joined by Rachael O’Byrne, a Liverpool councillor who’s called for the event to be banned from the city and by Paul, Press Officer for Carnage UK.Ìý

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  • Fri 19 Oct 2012 10:00

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