The Silent Killer? BBC One

In January 2019, much-loved BBC presenter Dianne Oxberry died just weeks after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer. In this documentary Dianne’s friend and colleague Annabel Tiffin investigates why this cancer is killing 7,000 women a year, including her own mother, and why there’s a lack of awareness, money and drugs to tackle it. About: Ovarian Cancer kills 7,000 women a year in the UK. In this documentary we discovered the disease’s impact. Presented by BBC North West’s Annabel Tiffin, who lost her own mother to ovarian cancer, the programme meets the wives, mothers, daughters and grandmothers devastated by this disease. It also investigates the cutting edge medical trials and innovations aimed at improving alarming survival rates. The production team used dramatic footage, intimate interviews and filming, plus info graphics to reveal the full horror of ovarian cancer, known as the silent killer. We uncovered the stories of women living with and recovering from the disease in Yorkshire, Hampshire, Scotland and the North West.