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Due to the coronavirus pandemic, we are continuing to record this podcast remotely

for the safety of our guests and our team. So on with the show. Hello and welcome to White Wine Question Time.

How are you?

Life OK?

You're staying well. Stay insane? I know there's question marks after every single one of those for me, but it's really good to have your company.

And this week you're in for a treat. My guest is an actress who plays many other roles.

She's been a dancer, a choreographer, presenter, an author, a mother and in the final years

of her own mother's life was also a carer.

And that's I think she writes beautifully about in her new book Remember Me,

Discovering my mother as she lost her memory.

A memoir that documents her mother's life and in turn her own as she started to

lose her fight with dementia. In fact it's worth mentioning here that not only did she

write this book whilst grieving for her mother who passed away sadly in 2019 but also whilst in the grips of COVID back in

March getting our mother's story onto the page furiously because she

feared that she may not survive her brush with COVID-19.

Fortunately she did and she has now recovered,

but as you're here, it's had a profound impact on her.

Born in Oldham to Indian parents,

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