Hadley Freeman and Bari Weiss on Anorexia

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🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Shortly after her fourteenth birthday, Hadley Freeman stopped eating. From the age of fourteen to seventeen, she lived in various psychiatric wards with a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa. And for the next decade, the condition would revisit and interrupt her life in numerous ways. In conversation with journalist Bari Weiss and drawing on her new book Good Girls, Freeman recounts her harrowing account of this complex condition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:54.8	Welcome to IntelligentSquared, I'm producer Catherine Hughes. In today's episode of the podcast
2:00.4	we're joined by journalist Hadley Freeman, who speaks about her personal experience within our
2:05.0	ex-year. In conversation with journalist writer and editor Barry Weiss, Freeman draws on her
2:10.6	harrowing account of this complex condition from her new book Good Girls. Here's Barry with more.
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