Sian Clifford, Caring for a person with dementia during lockdown

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

A new ITV drama, Quiz, explores the Who Wants to be a Millionaire? coughing scandal of 2001. Charles Ingram, a former British Army major, his wife Diana and another contestant were found guilt of conspiring to cheat the show to win the top prize. Diana is played by Sian Clifford, who is best known for playing Phoebe Waller Bridge's TV sister Claire in Fleabag.

Caring for your partner, your parent, your friend with dementia one on one can be challenging at any time but how are people coping isolated in lockdown? What are the extra pressures they face? We speak to Liz Brookes, former nurse. She lives outside of Manchester with her husband Mike, who has had vascular dementia for nine years now.

EastEnders and Coronation Street are celebrating anniversaries this year. Then there's Emmerdale, Hollyoaks, Rivercity, Doctors, not forgetting Holby, Casualty and all the Australian ones. Whatever's going on in real life, soap operas reflect it. So what is their appeal and how are they faring during lockdown?

Comedians and real life couple Catherine Bohart and Sarah Keyworth discuss their weekly podcast You'll Do: Why we stick with the people we love, examining the real un-romanticised version of relationships.

Presenter: Jane Garvey Interviewed guest: Sian Clifford Interviewed guest: Liz Brookes Interviewed guest: Sally Ann Matthews Interviewed guest: Kelly Bright Interviewed guest: Prof Christine Geraghty Interviewed guest: Catherine Bohart Interviewed guest: Sarah Keyworth Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

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0:00.0	This is the Woman's Hour podcast. A very good morning to you. Welcome to the bank holiday
0:09.8	edition. We're live from Broadcasting House and you can contact us at BBC Woman's Hour
0:14.0	on Twitter and Instagram. A warm welcome to you if you're a regular listener or if you're
0:18.8	just in lockdown with someone who's forcing you to engage with Woman's Hour this morning.
0:22.6	You never know, you might like it. On the program today, we're talking about what is
0:26.3	like to care for a partner with dementia during the lockdown. We'll also investigate
0:32.5	a new podcast called You'll Do. That's all about relationships. We'll talk about the importance
0:37.5	of TV soap operas as well today. And first up, the actress, Sean Clifford, who is starring
0:44.8	in a new ITV drama tonight at 9 o'clock. She plays Diana Ingram, the wife of the British
0:50.7	Army Major, Charles Ingram, the so-called Coffing Major. The drama is called Quiz. It's
0:56.5	going to be on tonight and then tomorrow night, on on Wednesday night as well. And it's
1:00.1	about the who wants to be a millionaire cheating scandal. Sean, good morning to you. How are
1:05.1	you? Hello. I'm well. Thank you. How are you doing? I'm not too bad. Does lockdown suit you?
1:11.2	Are you okay with it? It's up and down I think for everyone and we're all facing a myriad
1:18.5	of different challenges. So I'm feeling I'm cultivating a lot of gratitude for having everything
1:24.3	that I need and my home and my loved ones and things like that. It sort of has brought
1:30.7	everything into sharp focus. So yeah, I feel I definitely felt in the last couple of days
1:37.0	a sort of strong sense of acceptance. So just leaning into that and taking it a day at a time.
1:44.1	Okay, you're leaning in and getting on with it. Tell me about Quiz then because it's a story
1:49.7	that I thought I knew until I actually watched your show and now I'm not so certain. So just set
1:54.9	it up for us. So yes, who wants to be a millionaire was the biggest game show of its time. It was
2:02.2	the first game show to ever give away such a huge amount of prize money and and it gripped the
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