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World Service,17 Jul 2010,28 mins

Barbara Want on Grief

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In a frank and revealing interview Barbara Want describes the torment she went through after the death of her husband from cancer. It left her as the sole carer for their two young sons, and after three years she still feels the raw pain of the loss. She talks to Owen Bennett Jones about grief and why she thinks many people aren't very good at dealing with it.

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