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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 patient
Listen 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…
Emma Barnett
Nov 19, 2022
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Trying...to be specific
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…
Emma Barnett
Nov 12, 2022
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Trying…to see infertility as a disease
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…
Emma Barnett
Nov 5, 2022
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Trying…to be more Becky
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…
Emma Barnett
Oct 29, 2022
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Trying...to break
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…
Emma Barnett
Oct 22, 2022
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Trying...to be ill
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…
Emma Barnett
Oct 15, 2022
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Trying...to find the words
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…
Emma Barnett
Oct 8, 2022
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