Tag: Love
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#1522 Permanence
Permanence is often something sought after rather than a reality. Humans crave permanence – a steady income, a permanent home, a permanent companion. We ink permanence onto our skin, carve our lovers names into padlocks, throw away keys and make vows using words like forever. But very few realities can meet our expectations of permanence.…
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#1424 Outing Disability
“I actually got sick about six weeks after we got together, that became quite difficult…” “…But I think we’ve run the gambit through just about everything. The positives that come out of that is that we have an incredibly strong relationship and an incredibly good relationship as separate to the MS.” The photography exhibition ‘Outing Disability’ was…
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Love and OCD
The piece came about as I was thinking of ideas for my first radio documentary. I wanted to find a good personal story and early on I began to think about how mental illness can affect people in relationships. I was especially keen to explore how it can impact the other partner in the relationship,…
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#1419 Love + [Complication]
Love stories are hard to avoid – they’re woven through pop songs, the plots of films and every TV show. Often they’re presented as complicated, but how often do we stop and think about the complications in each other’s love stories? Today we bring you two. They’re familiar in their cups or tea and their…