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Happy Place

Olivia Harrison

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Personal Journals

4.615.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

How do you personally express love? Author, philanthropist, and award winning producer Olivia Harrison has a lifetime of memories with late husband George Harrison, the intricacies of which she felt compelled to write about in poetry.


In this chat with Fearne, Olivia recounts stories from her life with George – including how important practices like meditation and gardening were to them – as well as talking about the undulating nature of grief.


Olivia’s beautiful book of poetry, Came The Lightening, is out now.



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0:00.0

Hello and a big welcome to Happy Place, the show that helps you uncover your creative passions.

0:07.0

I'm Fern Cotton and today I'm chatting to Olivia Harrison.

0:11.0

Being here now, what else is there?

0:14.0

Past is gone, they'll cancel out that recall.

0:17.0

Future is not, may not be at all.

0:20.0

Present is, improves the flying hour.

0:22.0

Present only is within that power, is written on the house I live in.

0:27.0

And that's it, present is, it's now.

0:31.0

Olivia is an author, flumped repist and award-winning producer.

0:36.0

She's also the widow of Beatles musician George Harrison

0:40.0

and has now written a book of absolutely stunning poetry called Came the Lightning.

0:47.0

I've got goosebumps just thinking about it, where she's reflected on her life with George

0:52.0

and really examined the intimacy of their emotional bond.

0:57.0

There's also a lot in there about the concept of losing a partner and the passing of time,

1:02.0

all of which are things it was just a huge privilege to get to explore more with her at the Happy Place Festival.

1:09.0

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1:15.0

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1:23.0

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1:27.0

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