The House I Grew Up In Podcast
Series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons
Episodes to download
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Toby Young—Series 5
Thu 25 Aug 2011
4/4 Writer and journalist Toby Young revisits his childhood home and education in North London
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Jasvinder Sanghera—Series 5
Thu 18 Aug 2011
3/4 Jasvinder Sanghera, campaigner against forced marriages, returns to her Sikh childhood.
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Terry Waite—Series 5
Thu 11 Aug 2011
2/4 Terry Waite returns to his childhood home in the small Cheshire village of Styal.
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Shirley Williams—Series 5
Thu 4 Aug 2011
1/4 Baroness Shirley Williams returns to her childhood homes.
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Sir William Atkinson—Series 4
Mon 16 Aug 2010
5/6 Super-head Sir William Atkinson shows Wendy Robbins the London haunts of his childhood.
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Kay Mellor—Series 4
Mon 9 Aug 2010
4/6 TV screenwriter Kay Mellor takes Wendy Robbins to her childhood home and haunts in Leeds.
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Julia Hobsbawm—Series 4
Mon 2 Aug 2010
3/6 Businesswoman Julia Hobsbawm takes Wendy Robbins to Hampstead and rural north Wales.
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Colin Blakemore—Series 4
Mon 26 Jul 2010
2/6 Neurobiologist Prof Colin Blakemore takes Wendy Robbins to his childhood home in Coventry.
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Peter Hitchens—Series 4
Mon 19 Jul 2010
1/6 Writer Peter Hitchens returns to Portsmouth with Wendy Robbins.
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Kwame Kwei-Armah—Series 3
Tue 22 Sep 2009
4/5 Kwame Kwei-Armah recalls his childhood in Southall, west London, in the 1970s.
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Erin Pizzey—Series 3
Tue 15 Sep 2009
3/5 Campaigner and author Erin Pizzey explores her troubled childhood in post-war Dorset.
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Professor Steve Jones—Series 3
Tue 8 Sep 2009
2/5 Biologist Steve Jones takes Wendy Robbins back to his childhood in west Wales in the 1950s
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Baroness Jane Campbell—Series 3
Tue 1 Sep 2009
1/5 Disability campaigner Baroness Jane Campbell revisits her childhood home in Surrey.
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Baroness Mary Warnock—Series 2
Wed 17 Sep 2008
6/6 The philosopher heads back to her Winchester birthplace, home to her single mother of five
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Joanna Briscoe—Series 2
Wed 27 Aug 2008
4/6 Wendy Robbins takes the novelist back to her isolated childhood home in Dartmoor.
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David Blunkett—Series 2
Wed 20 Aug 2008
3/6 The politician takes Wendy Robbins to the boarding schools for the blind that he attended.
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Mona Siddiqui—Series 2
Wed 13 Aug 2008
2/6 Mona Siddiqui, Professor of Islamic Studies at Glasgow University, returns to Huddersfield
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Sir Tom Farmer—Series 2
Wed 6 Aug 2008
1/6 Wendy Robbins takes the Kwik Fit car repair firm founder back to his Leith childhood home.
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Jackie Kay—Series 1
Mon 27 Aug 2007
4/4 Poet Jackie Kay recalls a childhood in Glasgow which inspired her to write.
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Jacqueline Gold—Series 1
Mon 13 Aug 2007
2/4 Ann Summers Chief Executive Jacqueline Gold revisits the suburbs of Kent.
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Peter Hennessy—Series 1
Mon 6 Aug 2007
1/4 Historian and journalist Peter Hennessy returns to Finchley in North London.
