What I Wish I'd Known

By The Times

How do those often facing the hardest beginnings in life become so successful? Alice Thomson and Rachel Sylvester talk to extraordinary people living astonishing lives to learn from those who excel

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The podcast currently has 97 episodes available.

What I Wish I'd Known episodes:

August 10, 2020 Baroness Aminka Helic
Baroness Aminka Helic, a former refugee describes fleeing the war in Bosnia, with only her black leather jacket and her extraordinary journey to the Foreign Office and the House of Lords.
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49min
August 03, 2020 Brian Cox
The actor Brian Cox discusses growing up in poverty in Dundee after his father died when he was 8, and how witnessing his mother’s attempted suicide made him know he could survive anything.

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48min
July 27, 2020 Ruth Davidson
Ruth Davidson, the former Scottish Conservative leader, discusses her two near-death experiences and the battles with depression and self-harm that gave her the resilience for politics.
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47min
July 20, 2020 Sir Paul Nurse
In his fifties, the Nobel Prize winning geneticist Sir Paul Nurse made a shocking discovery that revealed that his childhood was based on secrets and lies. No-one in his family was who he thought they were. Paul discusses his remarkable scientific achievements, his educational triumphs and the importance of failure, and how the unravelling of his own genetic certainties affected his life, his work and his views on nature versus nurture.
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53min
July 13, 2020 Kirstie Allsopp
Times’ columnists, Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson visit home, craft and property guru Kirstie Allsopp, in Devon, to talk ironing napkins, being a young carer and DIY funerals. Kirstie reveals how her mother’s strong personality and long illness shaped the person her daughter became, and Kirstie's focus on creating the perfect home in both her own life and in her career.
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59min
July 06, 2020 Tony Blair
Times’ columnists, Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson spend a morning with Tony Blair, talking TV, politics and parenting. “My father would have been a Brexiteer” he says. He reveals how his father's stroke and his mother’s death shaped the person he became, his own political approach, and the family he and Cherie created.
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55min
July 03, 2020 Coming soon - Past Imperfect
Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson talk to outstanding people about the traumatic events in their early life, and the effect it had on their drive to succeed. Guests in the first series include Tony Blair, Lemn Sissay and Kirstie Allsopp
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