If you could have a conversation with your younger self, what would you tell them?

Anonymity is our most valuable gift.

I'm Kirstie Young, and in Young again, I'll be asking my guests what honest advice they would give their past self.

Believe it when they say that loving yourself is the answer.

Among those joining me will be Jamie Oliver, Jeda Pinkett Smith and Mel B.

I knew that I had a voice and I knew that I wanted to say certain things and represent certain things.

Young again, with me, Kirstie Young.

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Hello,

Welcome to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service with me

Carolyn Lomboy. I'm taking you back to September 1939. France and Britain had

just declared war on Germany two days after Germany invaded Poland on September the first.

In France, the authorities began evacuating tens of thousands of children from the capital.

One of them was my grandmother, Colette. She was taken from

Paris and sent to the Nievre department in Central France, more than 300 kilometers away. I especially remember saying goodbye to my mother.

My dad wasn't there, he'd been mobilised,

so it was just my mom.

That was a difficult moment really.

It was at the Guard Leont with taking the metro to get there.

I took comfort in my sister. She became like a mother to me. At the platform our mother told us,

whatever you do, don't get separated. Then we had to board the train.

We were a pack of girls from the same class, the same school

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