Kirsty Young asks fascinating people what advice they would give their younger self.
In her BBC Radio 4 podcast Young Again, journalist and broadcaster Kirsty Young takes her guests back to meet their younger selves and asks the question: if you knew then what you know now, what would you have done differently?
“When my parents split up – this was 1976, the first year that women could get a mortgage without a male co-signing – my sister and I were made Wards of the Court, because our parents weren’t married…The judge gave my mother this impossible set of tasks that she had to achieve within seven weeks to maintain custody of us: she had to be married, own her own house and have us in school.”
“He really did suffer from PTSD his entire life,” she says. “Any emotional situation… triggered that. I didn’t understand that until I did Who Do You Think You Are? and understood the war he had, because he never talked about it.” She wishes she could discuss it with him. “I would love to be able to talk to him about it and say there’s no shame in any of it. There’s only the experience of a very, very young man in a really terrifying war.
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