There’s a great Christmas Day anecdote about the actor Andrea Riseborough’s grandmother, “Nana”, who pretty much raised the star and used to rise at 5am and hit the sack at 11pm. “She started work at 13 years old pushing a bread cart up a really steep hill and worked as a cleaner…
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Trying...to be an active patientListen now (6 min) | This week’s newsletter…. brought to you by a blocked nose and a hope for clearer days ahead….Trying with Emma Barnett is a…
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This week one of my all-time favourite interviews came out. I sat down with the author and wonderful mind that is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for my…
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This is a bit of weird one today but I’ve been wanting to write it for a while. I have met people who want children or want another child but then say…
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During my couple of weeks off work, the political wheel spun again returning yet another Prime Minister. And now the work begins for the UK’s youngest…
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Good morning. It is time. I have a couple of weeks off work and will be back with you properly next Saturday. Halloween is going to feature; as will an…
It all started at a lovely restaurant and ended in the loo. As all things tend to do. This week a vomiting bug came to haunt my every hour. And wiped me…
This week I have interviewed three women on Woman's Hour, whose words have stopped people in their tracks and rightly so. First came Merry Varney, the…
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