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 and welcome to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service.

We're going back 10 years to when Russia annexed the Ukrainian province of Crimea in February

and March 2014.

The takeover was widely condemned by Western countries who imposed sanctions on Russia.

What came next was then the worst crisis in East-West relations since the end of the Cold War.

In 2022, one Crimean woman told Louise Hidalgo what it was like to live through. Early 2014 and in Ukraine's

capital.

Early 2014 and in Ukraine's capital Kiev, protesters for months have been

demanding that Ukraine move politically towards the European Union and

away from Russia. By February dozens of protesters have been

killed and Ukraine's pro-Russian president had fled. I remember this feeling

that it's not here so it's okay whatever they are doing there it's

their business. For Crimeanians like Sarah this is not her real name, those dramatic events hundreds of

kilometers away in Kiev felt like a different world. There were demonstrations in Crimea

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