During the first three months of the first lockdown. I was at home with my family and I was such a cliche: I was baking sourdough, making my own granola. It was an idyllic time.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2023 source ↗
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Mariella Frostrup
b. 1963
Born in Norway, Mariella Frostrup, 60, grew up in Ireland and moved to London at 16. She worked in music PR and made her presenting debut on Channel 4’s Big World Cafe in 1989. She went on to host TV and radio shows on arts and current affairs, including Radio 4’s Open Book and Panorama. She co-founded the campaign group Menopause Mandate, and wrote Cracking the Menopause – While Keeping Yourself Together (2021). Her new podcast, with Peter Fincham, is Have You Seen?. She is married with two children and lives in Somerset.
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Both my grandmother and my mother got dementia. My grandmother has passed away. My mother is in a home. Dementia is my biggest fear because it robs you of the very thing that makes life special.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2023 source ↗
A foreign correspondent.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2023 source ↗
The music journalist Paul Morley described me as bland.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2023 source ↗
I am mortified that we went into Afghanistan, promised to liberate the female population and, 20 years later, dumped them in a situation as bad, robbing girls of their futures.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2023 source ↗
I worked in a chicken factory in the Netherlands when I was 16.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2023 source ↗
Reading a newspaper.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2023 source ↗
A sense of the world being full of possibility and it being in their hands to make it a better one.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2023 source ↗
I’ve had a few hairy scrapes as a scuba diver.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2023 source ↗
A few zeros on my bank balance.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2023 source ↗
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