BBC Radio 4: The Choice

Originally aired at 9am today, for UK audiences only it's also available on iPlayer for the next week:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007vrr0

The Choice is a series of 1/2 hour programmes on Radio 4, featuring people who have made life-altering decisions and exploring the whole process, from the original dilemma to living with the consequences. Previous episodes have featured a chap who killed his abusive father; a woman who's adopted 9 children with special needs (most with Down's Syndrome) and a whistleblower. Today's featured Miranda Ponsonby.

A quick Google later reveals a BBC Leicester interview earlier this year which covered similar ground, interviews in the Daily Telegraph (just over 2 years ago) and The Times (earlier this year), plus numerous other articles - so some of you may already be familiar with her story (especially as her autobiogaphy was released back in the summer).

For those not yet familiar, in a nutshell, Miranda was born Rhodri. After a career including public school boy, sportsman, soldier and farmer, 20 years ago Rhodri transitioned. However, rather than going the usual route, the op was done privately [1], before starting on hormones or even a RLT. She's since taken on a new career in nursing, and (aged 76) is still working at Kettering Hospital.

[1] The only complication being the surgeon initially left one testicle behind...