Naomi Parry, Breast reconstruction delays, Passport Bros
From Woman's Hour by BBC Radio 4
April 22, 2026 · 57 min
About this episode
The episode discusses Naomi Parry's legal victory regarding Amy Winehouse's items, the impact of breast reconstruction delays for cancer patients, and an artistic moonwalk project by Deby McKnight.
Naomi Parry, the costume designer who worked closely with Amy Winehouse to craft her iconic style, has this week been vindicated in a high court judgement. Amy Winehouse's father brought the case against Naomi, and another of Amy’s friends Catriona Gourlay, challenging their right to auction items that had belonged to the late singer. Naomi joins Nuala McGovern in the Woman’s Hour studio to tell us what Monday’s judgement means to her. Women have never walked on the Moon until now - at least not for real - but in the living rooms of East Belfast artist, Deby McKnight has made it her mission to get 100 women to take a moonwalk, recreating Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's historic steps in 1969. Using nothing more than imagination, moon boots and a small piece of the moon itself. We hear from Deby and Aislinn Duffield, who has taken part in her project. At the height of the Covid pandemic, hundreds of women undergoing treatment for breast cancer had mastectomies without reconstruction - procedures that would usually happen at the same time, but were paused because they were considered non-essential. Many women were told they would be able to have reconstructive surgery once the…
People in this episode
Host: Nuala McGovern
Guests: Naomi Parry, Deby McKnight, Aislinn Duffield, Rosie Taylor, Alison
Topics covered
- Naomi Parry
- breast reconstruction
- Passport Bros
- women's health
- art
Keywords
- Amy Winehouse
- Covid pandemic
- mastectomy
- moonwalk
- East Belfast
Mentioned in this episode
Places: Moon, East Belfast, Stockport, Vietnam, UK, USA
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