Fern Britton reveals the life reset that changed everything
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
TV legend Fern shares her vital life lessons and advice on divorce, single parenting, loss, career reinvention, weight loss, fitness, love and making new friends. The best-selling author and mum-of-four also talks hosts Trish Halpin and Lorraine Candy through how she recovered from depression and suicidal thoughts in midlife with the help of a new health regime, talking therapy and the right medication.
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| 0:00.0 | Happy birthday to me. |
| 0:11.7 | Oh, singing. |
| 0:13.1 | Happy birthday to me. |
| 0:14.7 | Happy birthday to me. |
| 0:15.8 | Happy birthday to me. |
| 0:17.8 | Yes, we are recording this episode of your favorite podcast on Young Trish's birthday. Did you get my card this morning, Young Trish? |
| 0:26.8 | I did, thank you. It was in my little pile at breakfast to open. So thank you very much for that. |
| 0:32.9 | It said I was still a spring chicken on the front, which I appreciate it, especially from you, |
| 0:38.5 | because you do like to remind our listeners on very regular occasions, always on my birthday, |
| 0:43.1 | that I am a year older than you. |
| 0:44.7 | Yes, I am the baby of the group. |
| 0:47.1 | It's just the purpose, isn't it? |
| 0:49.9 | Can I tell everybody that you are just one year, thus I am two years, away from being |
| 0:58.1 | 60, which blows my mind because we're still pretending to be midlife and also pretending to be |
| 1:05.1 | 20s. It's very confusing. I know, exactly. I think we still think of ourselves as hip young |
| 1:09.4 | things in the 90s, don't we? But you know what? I'm embracing it. And I am counting down the days to getting my free bus pass. So I've got 364 days to go to free transport and senior discounts in museums. So there we go. What's not to love about that? And actually, our guest today is going |
| 1:29.0 | to be 70 next year, which blows my mind even more. But I do suppose it does feel like she's been |
| 1:35.0 | with us forever, doesn't it? She's been in our lives. Well, she's a national treasure. I would |
| 1:40.1 | like to say a national TV treasure. So today we have got Fern Britton coming back on the podcast. |
| 1:46.9 | She's a kind of joyful, fearless voice for women, isn't she? |
| 1:50.6 | And she was kind of in our mornings on ITVs this morning for so many years. |
| 1:55.6 | She's a happy soul who embraces life. |
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