Woman's Hour - 13/10/2009

With Jane Garvey. Jane Walker gave up a successful career in the media to start a charity in the Philippines helping families living on a vast rubbish dump in Manila. Jane was so shocked at the conditions and the lack of opportunities for children that she opened a school, which is now attended by more than 400 pupils. Jane, who has just been named as a 'Woman of the Year', talks to Jane Garvey about how her life has changed since following her vocation. The chances of surviving breast cancer are much better if it is detected early. But a new study shows that black and Asian women are significantly more likely than white women to be diagnosed after the cancer has spread. Now experts say there needs to be a big push to raise awareness of breast cancer symptoms among women from ethnic communities, and to encourage them to go for breast screening. Jane talks to Ruth Jack from the Thames Cancer Registry, who carried out the research, Rose Thompson, a cancer information specialist for the black and ethnic minority community, and Nasim Panjwani, whose family has a history of breast cancer. In 1990, Sheryl, a single mother with two young children, met Paul Gascoigne, at the time Britain's most idolised footballer. They married in 1996 and she became the most famous WAG in Britain. Their time together was troubled, with accusations of domestic violence. They were only actually married for two years but Sheryl says she spent 18 years trying to fix him. She talks to Jane about her new book and her life in an abusive relationship. Almost everybody owns at least one pair of jeans, and youire just as likely to find them on the legs of a fashion-conscious celebrity as you are the local builder. So what is it about jeans? What kind of statement are we making when we put on a pair? Why do they inspire such love and hate? Why, if you're not tall and skinny, is it so extraordinarily difficulty to find jeans that fit? When and why did they become such as fashion item? Jane talks to Penny Martin from the London College of Fashion and Hilary Alexander, fashion director at The Daily Telegraph.