Why the Jewish community could benefit from targeted testing for the BRCA gene mutation. Marina Litvinenko & MyAnna Buring who plays her in new play. Accept, float, let time pass - how Dr Claire Weekes treated nervous illness in the 60s. 'My Best Day'.
The story behind another Best Day picture. Calls for population-wide cancer testing. Marina Litvinenko on the play about her husband's death. The woman who cracked the anxiety codeThere's a call for population wide testing for the BRCA gene in the Jewish community, which is at greater risk carrying the gene mutation which is linked to ovarian, breast, prostate and pancreatic cancer.
Marina Litvinenko on the play about her husband Alexander's death in London and her subsequent fight for an public inquiry. We're also joined by Myanna Buring who takes Marina's part in the play A Very Expensive Poison at the Old Vic Theatre. In the next in our series My Best Day, Alison Fletcher explains why this picture means so much to her.
In 1962 an Australian GP, Dr Claire Weekes published a book called Self Help for Your Nerves in which she said she could cure panic, depression, sorrow, agoraphobia and anxiety. The psychiatric establishment dismissed her as under-qualified and populist but her book sold well and is still in print over 50 years later. Judith Hoare, author of The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code tells us about Claire Weekes' treatments, the reaction from her contemporaries and her legacy now.
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