Summary
Su Chantry was adopted as a baby and grew up fantasising that she was the daughter of a French princess who would one day return for her. As an adult with her own family, Su received an unexpected phone call. She rushed to meet her mum, and they would spend just one day together, her last.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Greg Jenner. I'm the host of Your Dead to Me, where the best names in comedy and history |
| 0:05.5 | join me to learn about and laugh at the past. You are a traitor. And in the new series, we'll meet |
| 0:11.2 | Aristotle. I think he might have been a time traveller. Someone who's like almost a glitch. |
| 0:15.3 | We'll dive into the causes of the British Civil Wars in the 1600s. In England at this period, |
| 0:19.8 | there's people can't get on the housing ladder. |
| 0:21.5 | This sounds familiar. |
| 0:23.2 | And we'll discover the arts and crafts movement. |
| 0:25.3 | I love the clothes. |
| 0:26.3 | I love the vibe. |
| 0:27.1 | Yes, we're a comedy show that takes history seriously and then laughs at it. |
| 0:30.5 | You're dead to me. |
| 0:31.3 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:34.3 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:38.1 | Welcome to the series that hears from people who've experienced something which shifts everything. |
| 0:43.8 | Often it's the bookends of life, birth and death which shape the way we see the world, |
| 0:49.2 | who we're born to, who we lose, and where that fits in our understanding of ourselves. So it is for Sue Chantry, |
| 0:56.8 | an adopted baby who searched for her birth mother had an unexpected ending. Sue's here. Hello. |
| 1:03.1 | Hello, Sean. How are you? I'm fine, thank you. Good. Take us to your childhood and growing up |
| 1:09.1 | in High Wycombe in the Chilton Hills, when did you first know |
| 1:13.8 | that you were adopted? What were you told? I was told very early on that I was special, |
| 1:21.2 | I was chosen, and that I was adopted. So I was always very proud of my adopted status, |
| 1:28.9 | not really understanding what that meant as a young girl. How did you interpret that phrase you've been chosen when you're growing up? |
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