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The House I Grew Up In
by BBC Radio 4
Series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons
Episodes
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Toby Young
Writer and journalist Toby Young returns to his childhood in North London. The son of Lord Young of Dartington, a towering figure in post-war social policy making and the originator of many of this country's institutions, Toby remembers his father being a formidable over-achiever and workaholic....
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Jasvinder Sanghera
Jasvinder Sanghera is the founder of the charity, Karma Nirvana, which campaigns against forced marriage. She was also one of the influential voices behind the 2008 Forced Marriages Act. Jasvinder was born into a Sikh community in Derby, part of a family of seven daughters and one son. Her mother...
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Terry Waite
Born in 1939, he remembers the constraints of being the son of the local policeman, where any misdemeanour from a young Terry came under scrutiny. His father Thomas, a highly principled man, was also a disciplinarian, leading to an ambivalent relationship between father and son. His mother Lena...
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Shirley Williams
Shirley Williams, now Baroness Williams, returns to her childhood homes in London's Chelsea and the New Forest. Her mother was the writer, Vera Brittain, whose most famous novel - Testament of Youth - was a best-seller when Shirley was a child in the 1930s. Her father, George Catlin, was an...
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Peter Hitchens
Writer & journalist Peter Hitchens was born in 1951 and moved to Portsmouth as the sixties began and the navy (in which his father was a commander during World War 2) declined. He grew up with heroic tales - from Admiral Nelson onwards - of great men who had kept this island safe. His life-long...
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Sir William Atkinson
Sir William Atkinson, one of the country's best-known super-heads, first came to this country from Jamaica aged 7. His father met him, his mother and two brothers at Heathrow. This is the first memory Sir William has of his father who had worked abroad for a number of years. The other oddity of...
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Kay Mellor
Television screenwriter Kay Mellor was born into a working class Leeds household in the 1950s and brought up single-handedly by her mother from the age of three. Her mother re-married when Kay was 10. She remembers a secure childhood. But money was tight, she did badly at school and was married,...
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Julia Hobsbawm
PR supremo, professional networker & businesswoman, Julia Hobsbawm, takes Wendy Robbins to London's Hampstead & rural Wales. Julia was born in 1964 and grew up among the country's leading intellectuals and communists in London's Hampstead. Her father is the Marxist historian, Eric Hobsbawm, who...
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Colin Blakemore
Neurobiologist Professor Colin Blakemore was a war baby brought up in devastated Coventry. His two-up two-down home had the first TV in the street on which he lived next door to relatives and a family of ten. As an only child, his parents were able to cash in an insurance policy of £16 which...
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Kwame Kwei-Armah
Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons. Playwright and actor Kwame Kwei-Armah takes Wendy to Southall, west London, to remember his West Indian childhood there in the 1970s.
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Erin Pizzey
Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons. Campaigner, author and founder of the women's refuge movement, Erin Pizzey, explores her troubled childhood in post-war Dorset.
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Professor Steve Jones
Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons. Biologist and author Professor Steve Jones takes Wendy back to his childhood in west Wales in the 1950s to uncover the passions that led to his life of scientific discovery.
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Baroness Jane Campbell
Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons. Disability campaigner Baroness Jane Campbell takes Wendy back to her childhood home in New Malden, Surrey, where she remembers being dressed up as a Barbie doll and wanting to be no different from her...
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Baroness Mary Warnock
Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons. Baroness Mary Warnock has been a moral referee for 30 years. Her judgement has often been relied upon to steer a path through a tangle of controversies from human embryo research to euthanasia. She…
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Joanna Briscoe
Wendy Robbins takes the novelist back to her isolated childhood home in Dartmoor, and an unconventional upbringing. From August 2008.
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David Blunkett
The politician takes Wendy Robbins to the boarding schools for the blind that he attended as a child. From August 2008.
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Mona Siddiqui
Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons. Mona Siddiqui, Professor of Islamic Studies at Glasgow University, takes Wendy back to her childhood home in Huddersfield. She recalls growing up in a literary family and her mother's insistence on...
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Sir Tom Farmer
Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons. She meets Sir Tom Farmer, Scottish entrepreneur and philanthropist, on his boyhood stamping ground of Leith.
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Jackie Kay
Recalling a childhood in Glasgow which inspired her to write, the poet takes Wendy Robbins to meet her mum and dad. From August 2007.
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Jacqueline Gold
Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons. Jacqueline Gold, Chief Executive of the Ann Summers retail chain.
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Peter Hennessy
The influential history professor returns to Finchley in North London to reminisce with Wendy Robbins about his 1950s childhood.
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Series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons
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