Podcasts by The House I Grew Up In
Series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons
Further podcasts by BBC Radio 4
Podcast on the topic Tagebücher
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Toby Young from 2011-08-25T08:30
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 t...
ListenJasvinder Sanghera from 2011-08-18T08:30
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. Jasvin...
ListenTerry Waite from 2011-08-11T08:30
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...
ListenShirley Williams from 2011-08-04T08:30
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 Y...
ListenPeter Hitchens from 2011-07-28T08:00
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 wi...
ListenSir William Atkinson from 2010-08-16T08:00
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 ...
ListenKay Mellor from 2010-08-09T08:00
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 w...
ListenJulia Hobsbawm from 2010-08-02T08:00
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 leadin...
ListenColin Blakemore from 2010-07-26T08:00
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 ...
ListenKwame Kwei-Armah from 2009-09-22T08:00
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...
ListenErin Pizzey from 2009-09-15T08:00
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 tr...
ListenProfessor Steve Jones from 2009-08-08T08:00
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 ...
ListenBaroness Jane Campbell from 2009-08-01T08:00
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 ...
ListenBaroness Mary Warnock from 2008-09-17T08:00
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 re...
ListenJoanna Briscoe from 2008-08-27T08:00
Wendy Robbins takes the novelist back to her isolated childhood home in Dartmoor, and an unconventional upbringing. From August 2008.
ListenDavid Blunkett from 2008-08-20T08:00
The politician takes Wendy Robbins to the boarding schools for the blind that he attended as a child. From August 2008.
ListenMona Siddiqui from 2008-08-13T08:00
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 c...
ListenSir Tom Farmer from 2008-08-06T08:00
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 ...
ListenJackie Kay from 2007-08-27T08:00
Recalling a childhood in Glasgow which inspired her to write, the poet takes Wendy Robbins to meet her mum and dad. From August 2007.
ListenJacqueline Gold from 2007-08-13T08:00
Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons. Jacqueline Gold, Chief Executive of the Ann Summers retail chain.
ListenPeter Hennessy from 2007-08-06T08:00
The influential history professor returns to Finchley in North London to reminisce with Wendy Robbins about his 1950s childhood.
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