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Woman's Hour

Divorce, Ruby Wax, the FIRE movement, Strings duo Balladeste

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

How common is it to experience ‘hate’ towards someone you once loved? We tend to think of 'hate' as one of the strongest emotions we can have, so what happens if you find yourself 'hating' your former partner, particularly if you have children with them. We discuss why some people experience this during or after the breakdown of their relationship, and how to move on from it.

In the early 1990s Ruby Wax smashed out of the TV studio and rewrote the rule book on the celebrity chat show with 'When Ruby Wax Met…'. She joins Anita to look back at some of these encounters with stars such as Grace Jones, Carrie Fisher, Imelda Marcos, and one particularly memorable encounter with a future US President and his new girlfriend - a Mr Donald Trump.

As part of our money series, we are looking at the FIRE Movement. The acronym, which stands for Financial Independence, Retire Early, is a method of extreme saving, in order to retire – or stop working – decades earlier. Recent studies suggest that over half of millennials do not see themselves as 'emotionally and behaviourally' connected to their job and company. Exhausted from high-pressure jobs and with a growing sense of burnout, some millennials are turning to the FIRE strategy in an attempt to become financially independent, sooner. Emma-Lou Montgomery is a personal finance and investment writer at Fidelity International, and Sarah Pennells is a Consumer Finance Specialist from the Royal London.

Indian-American violinist Preetha Narayanan and British cellist Tara Franks met while studying at the Guildhall School of Music and went on to form a strings duo – Balladeste. Their style has been described as Contemporary Classical meets Folk in its broadest form - Indo-Baroque meets alt-folk minimalism. For their new album, Beyond Breath, they have taken fragments of melodic lines from a set of Indian devotional songs learnt in Preetha’s childhood as inspiration. They join Anita to discuss the cross-cultural melding of their musical ideas and styles.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Kirsty Starkey

Interviewed Guest: Ruby Wax Interviewed Guest: Sara Davison Interviewed Guest: Fahima Mahomed Interviewed Guest: Sarah Pennells Interviewed Guest: Emma-Lou Montgomery Interviewed Guest: Preetha Narayanan Interviewed Guest: Tara Franks

Transcript

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0:00.0

Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.

0:04.6

My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.

0:08.4

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0:29.7

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0:36.0

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0:41.0

Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from podcasts. then hated. It's a powerful emotion, hate, particularly at the end of a marriage, a relationship

0:56.3

that was once meaningful and loving. So we're talking about it today. Have you ever experienced hate for your ex? What has it driven you to do? How did you

1:06.6

deal with it? Especially if there were children involved? I would love to hear your experiences.

1:12.3

And if you have any questions, then send them to me because I'll be speaking to two women who may be able to help you with your hatred.

1:18.3

You can text me on 84844.

1:21.1

You can contact us via social media, it's at BBC Woman's Hour or you can email

1:24.9

through our website. Now how do you like the sound of this? Financial

1:29.7

independence retire early.

1:32.8

Sounds great, right?

1:34.0

Well, for some millennials, it's a mantra, the life plan.

1:38.1

They don't want to be working at the same job into their 60s.

1:41.0

They want freedom to retire young and then to choose to do what they want.

1:45.4

Blumen brilliant. Where do we sign up? I'll be telling you all about it shortly and

1:50.6

most importantly how to do it. Now she was a firm fixture on our screens for over 20 years and when she was on you couldn't miss her.

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