Hello and welcome to the podcast for Thursday, the 22nd of August, day 4 of listener week.

As the newspapers report on the growth of the Silent Book Club, Dorian wrote to us about

what might be the oldest book club begun in 1965. Plenty of talk there about the books,

now has it lasted so long. One year told us on Instagram about her difficulties as a woman

of colour in a rural community. How easy is it to fit in? And Sophie started a business

three years ago when she was 17. Jo Fairly, one of the founders of Green and Blacks Chocolate

and Julie Baker, have net West Bank will offer advice on how to grow your enterprise

at a pace you can manage. So often we talk about how important our women friends are to us.

We share everything with them and sometimes they've been our best friends since we were at school.

They may occasionally be set aside if a new man comes on the scene, but

whilst we rarely assume a romantic relationship will last forever, a best female friend is for life.

So what happens when best friends fall out? We're discussing this because we had an email from

Jill who fell out with a friend of 25 years standing nearly two years ago. She's still so upset

she didn't want to join us. Well, Hilda Burke gives a psychotherapist and the author of

the phone addiction workbook. Annabelle Fennig Elliott is Senior Content Editor at the telegraphed.

She explained how her breakup for a best friend happened. So we were best best best friends

for about a decade. Boyfriends came and went through both of our lives, but I think it changed

sort of really quite abruptly about two years before we split up when she got engaged

and seemed to undergo quite a personality transplant. So there were many things that from that

moment leading up to the last straw for me about two years after that. What was the last straw?

So she promised to take me to my ex-boyfriends funeral and I was very upset on that day as you can

imagine and she bailed but the last minute and didn't take me and I just thought that that's it.

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