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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…

Nov 26, 2022

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…

Nov 19, 2022

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…

Nov 12, 2022

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…

Nov 5, 2022

October 2022

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…

Oct 29, 2022

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…

Oct 22, 2022

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…

Oct 15, 2022

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…

Oct 8, 2022

We have been through a period of saying no. Or opting out. The Covid lockdowns made it so. Then there was a big period of saying yes as we unlocked the…

Oct 1, 2022

September 2022

At the start of the year, I made a decision. I wanted to talk about trying for a baby while it wasn’t working: to speak at the same time as when things…

Sep 24, 2022

How are you? Three little words that too often fail in their mission. Because we traditionally place that question right at the start of a conversation…

Sep 17, 2022

Duty. Not a word used much these days. But one you will have heard countless times in the last 36 hours since the death of Queen Elizabeth II was…

Sep 10, 2022

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