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Radio Solent,3 mins

Ukrainian refugee helps Dorset woman achieve dream of publishing first children's book

Steve Harris

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A Ukrainian mother, who fled Kharkiv with her young son, to live in Weymouth has helped her host bring a children's book to print. Hilary Warren - a retired dentist from Langton Herring near Weymouth - wrote it in the mid-1990s but it'd been kept in a drawer ever since - until a conversation one day with her Ukrainian guest Nataliia Honcharenko. Hilary, Nataliia and her son Max joined Steve Harris to share their story.

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