Meghan and Harry Documentary, Carolynne Hunter, Christmas Family

Woman's Hour

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Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Today sees the release of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s much anticipated Netflix series. To discuss Krupa is joined by Catherine Mayer, author of Charles: The Heart of a King and co-founder of the Women’s Equality Party, and the former Royal photographer Jayne Fincher who was the only woman in the press pack with Princess Diana. Yesterday on the programme, we spoke to actor Kate Winslet about her new drama I am Ruth on Channel 4. During that interview, Kate told Emma about a donation she made to pay a soaring energy bill for a child’s life support after being moved by the family’s story. Freya, who is 13, has severe cerebral palsy and relies on receiving oxygen for chronic breathing problems. Freya’s mother, Carolynne Hunter, joins us today. At least nine children across the UK are said to have died recently from complications caused by the Strep A infection. So just how concerned should parents be, and what, if anything, can parents do to protect their children? Professor Devi Sridhar, Chair of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh, joins Krupa. Sara Collins won the Costa First Novel Prize in 2019 for The Confessions of Frannie Langton, a gothic thriller about a Jamaican maid in 1820’s London. Sara has now adapted her book for television and the four part series is available on the streaming service ITVX from today. Sara joins Krupa in studio. How do you convince your adult children to spend Christmas with you? We hear from Sue Elliot Nicholls who says she’s already preparing for the fact that her son’s will choose their girlfriends family over her and from relationship psychologist Emma Kenny. Presenter: Krupa Padhy Producer: Emma Pearce

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Felicity Finch. You may know me as Ruth in the Archers. I have something important to
0:06.0	ask you before you listen to your podcast. This Christmas, thousands of people across the UK will be
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0:34.8	Please support the Radio 4 Christmas Appeal by donating online on the Radio 4 Christmas Appeal
0:39.8	website. When times are so difficult for so many, thank you for helping people to restart their
0:46.2	lives with a home. Now enjoy your podcast. Hello, this is Kruppup Artie and you're listening to the
0:58.0	Woman's Hour podcast. Hello and thank you for joining us. This morning the Duke and Duchess of
1:04.4	Sussex released their series on Netflix. It's been built as telling their side of the story.
1:10.4	The trailers have already caused a stir with Prince Harry speaking of, I quote,
1:14.8	the leaking and planting of stories as part of a dirty game. The series will no doubt do more of
1:21.6	the same. The first three episodes have only been up around a couple of hours. Maybe you've already
1:27.2	started to watch them. Maybe you don't want to watch them, but wherever you stand on this, we are
1:32.0	always keen to hear from you. We're on the handle at BBC Woman's Hour on Twitter and on Instagram.
1:38.2	And if you want to get in touch via text, you can do so. It's 84844 and of course there's email
1:44.8	via our website and now we also have WhatsApp. You can send us a message or audio note there. The
1:50.3	number is 03-700-100-4444. Now if you were listening yesterday, you would have heard the
1:58.0	actor Kate Winslet tell Emma about how she came to pay a huge energy bill for a mother looking
2:03.7	after her child's life support after reading about the family online. We're going to speak to that
2:09.1	mother Carolian Hunter later in the program. Also I'll be speaking to the author Sarah Collins,
2:15.0	whose book The Confessions of Franny Langton won the 2019 Costa First Novel Prize. She joins us to
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