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10 January 2009
This week we hear about growing up with an alcoholic parent and what it's like not to have slept in 37 years.
Plus, why you should start writing to a pen pal and Inheritance Tracks from Ruth Jones.
PRESENTER
Clare Balding
is this week's guest presenter.
STUDIO GUEST
Bestselling author of contemporary novels and historical fiction
Joanna Trollope
joins us.
EXTRAORDINARY STORIES
Neil Epstein
hasn't had a good night's sleep for 37 years.
TOPICAL STORIES
Emma Spiegler
shares her experiences of living with an alcoholic parent.
Missing Mummy: Emma's Poems
GUERILLA REPORTER
Liz Murphy
on why everyone should get a pen pal and start writing letters.
INHERITANCE TRACKS
Ruth Jones
chose 'Lily the Pink' by The Scaffold and 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack.
MEET THE POET
Luke Wright
takes the noble art of poetry by the scruff of the neck and turns it into something to delight.
Luke's poems
.
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Bestselling author of contemporary novels and historical fiction 
Neil Epstein hasn't had a good night's sleep for 37 years.
Liz Murphy on why everyone should get a pen pal and start writing letters.
Ruth Jones chose 'Lily the Pink' by The Scaffold and 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack.
