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Today's guest, it's an hour of conversation with Philippa Perry, who's a psychotherapist.

She's married to Grayson Perry, the artist who you probably all know, and she's written a book

called The Book You Wish Your Parents

Had Read and your children would be glad that you did. She came on Sunday brunch. She was

brilliant, such a lovely guest. Charming, smart, everything about her was brilliant. So I thought,

hey, why not get her on the podcast and see if we can chew over

what it's like to be a parent? And also, we discuss a lot of other things like relationships and

where the world's going. So it's worth listening. Here's an hour with Philippa Perry.

Philippa I welcome.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

Thank you for having me, Tim.

I was just saying, did you enjoy coming on Sunday brunch?

Thoroughly enjoyed having you on the show.

Well, that's very kind of you to have me. And had I been able to taste those lovely little dishes you were making there, I would have enjoyed it a lot more.

But, you know, I enjoyed you by the medium of Zoom and my corn flakes, yes. So the book has been

such a success, hasn't it? Why did you write the book in the first place? Let's remind ourselves.

I wrote the book in the first place because there are an awful lot of well-meaning parents who

didn't seem to realize that what they needed to have with their children was a relationship.

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