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Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the final episode in this series of Postcards from Midlife, and with some uncertain times ahead, Lorraine and Trish share the tips and tricks they'll be using in self-isolation and get some expert advice from menopause specialist Dr Shahzadi Harper. We're all glued to our phones at the moment, but how do the gadgets affect our children? They talk to psychologist Suzi Godson about how parents should really feel about teens, screens and social media.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! I'm Trish Halpin and I'm Lorraine Candy. Welcome to Postcards from Midlife. |
| 0:08.0 | The show where we help you through the Midlife, the menopause, Motherhood and everything in between. |
| 0:13.2 | Welcome to this special episode of Postcards from Midlife. |
| 0:19.0 | Why is it special? |
| 0:20.0 | You may well ask. |
| 0:21.0 | Well, there are two reasons. |
| 0:22.4 | Firstly, it's the last |
| 0:24.0 | episode in this series our first ever series of postcards from midlife and secondly |
| 0:28.8 | Trish and I are sitting in a car recording We're not allowed into the recording studio |
| 0:35.0 | because of the coronavirus. So that's why Trish and I are sat in a car in a car |
| 0:41.5 | park in the middle of London looking across some green fields. |
| 0:45.0 | We're very isolated, but we're isolated together, aren't we? |
| 0:49.0 | We're not going near anybody else. |
| 0:51.0 | And we do have last. |
| 0:52.0 | We're actually in the car park at the Serpentine, |
| 0:53.7 | aren't we? |
| 0:54.7 | She must go on. Now we actually recorded our guest interview before the Corona |
| 1:00.5 | developments. So later on in the episode you'll be hearing our chat with psychologist and mental health expert |
| 1:06.3 | Susie Godson, who you may remember from episode one. |
| 1:09.9 | She is the Sex and Relationships columnist for the Times and she is also the founder of an app that supports teenage mental health. |
| 1:17.0 | We wanted to find out in particular how social media is impacting young people and how concerned we should be as parents about it. |
| 1:23.4 | Right, so we're going to be stuck at home. |
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