At the time of recording this episode it was Mother's Day in the UK, but as we all know, we should appreciate our mums all year round. And so Sandi recites a poem by Anne of Greengables author Lucy Maude Montogomery for her own mum.

Lucy coincidentally lived through the Spanish Flu epidemic one hundred years ago and so serves as a reminder that, We Will Get Past This.

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Welcome to We Will Get Past This, with Sandi Toksvig, who invites you into her room of books so she can help transport you away from the current world and the difficulties we find ourselves in.

To start things-off, Sandi dips into her 'Book of Days' and discovers a forgotten heroine of the English civil war (depending on which side you're on). Although it does start with a beheading in 1330, things soon pick-up when we hear about Charlotte Trémoille, Countess of Derby and her courageous exploits, which inspired one Letitia Elizabeth Landon to write a poem about her.... not bad for a day's work, as you'll soon hear.

Sit back, relax and remember... We Will Get Past This.

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