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In conversation with Chloe George
For the last in the current run of The Cost of Caring series, we chat about postnatal doulas as creative caregivers
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Lindsay Johnstone
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Chloe George
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44:48
In Conversation with Claire Venus
Watch now | For The Cost of Caring Series, we talk creative caregiving and the true price of bossing it in solo business
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Lindsay Johnstone
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Claire Venus ✨
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42:58
In conversation with Wendy Pratt
Watch now | For the Cost of Caring series, we talk about processing grief, the switch from 'child' to 'caregiver', neurodiversity and the cross-genre…
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Lindsay Johnstone
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Wendy Pratt
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45:39
In Conversation with Sasha Neal
Watch now | For the Cost of Caring series, we talk about being caught in the middle of two very different types of caregiving...
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Lindsay Johnstone
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Sasha Neal
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41:27
The Carers' Cribsheet
To round off Carers' Week here in the UK, important words on the practicalities of offering care
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Lindsay Johnstone
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In conversation with Hannah Lacy
For the Cost of Caring series, we talk caregiving through chronic illness as creative people working in the charitable sector. Wow, that's a mouthful!
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Lindsay Johnstone
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Hannah Lacy
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44:42
In Conversation with Faith Newton
Watch now | For the Cost of Caring Series, we chat nurturing creative lives while caring for neurodivergent children
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Lindsay Johnstone
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Faith Newton
37:18
In Conversation with Annette Vaucanson Kelly
Watch now | For the Cost of Caring Series we talk tweens, teens, the language of wild swimming and the shape our climate activism can take as caregivers
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Lindsay Johnstone
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Annette Vaucanson Kelly
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51:12
In Conversation with Lyndsay Kaldor
Watch now | For the Cost of Caring Series, I chat creativity and early motherhood with Lyndsay Kaldor
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Lindsay Johnstone
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Lyndsay Kaldor
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42:37
Sunday Retrospective: In Conversation with Caro Giles
Enter into the world of the carer-creative... Plus a collaborator call-out
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Lindsay Johnstone
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Caro Giles
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I'd had my ending, or so I thought...
Ritual (and ashes)
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Lindsay Johnstone
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In Conversation with Caro Giles
And let me tell you, it's as much about the 'other' life of the carer – the creative, writerly one – as it is about our experiences of providing care…
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Lindsay Johnstone
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