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Resolution Hell
"The Chinese have ferocious haircuts and cancel debts. Of course in America it's about the perfection of oneself." Are you a serial-breaker of New Years Resolutions?
Home For Christmas
"Every year I decide I'm not going home. But I never manage to say it to my mother who asks me in June what I'm doing for Christmas. I don't want her to think I don't love her... "
A Stranger at the Table
"Farmers, from the remote mountainsides in France, they couldn't understand why their daughter was gallivanting about with an Englishman. The invitation had been extracted by pliers by my intended..."
Warning! Artist at Work
"The only problem is people are so busy looking at the display, they're not looking where they're driving and we've had a couple of smashed cars!..."
Harmless Fairy tales?
"I wanted him to believe in Santa, partly through embarrassment - the fear that he was going to accuse this large harmless Finnish Gentleman of being a fraud..." Adrian Mourby ponders maintaining myths.
How to Survive the Builders
"Our relationship is very stormy. I hate myself when I'm talking to them and I think, God, who is this harridan that's suddenly appeared?"
Homesick?
"At home washing was folded, washed and presented to me in my drawer. It was then that I realised what I'd forgotten to pack. Washing powder, softener, and my mother...."
How to Flirt
"I like you, I would like to be closer to you and I'm available to be closer to you..." Flirting - your guide to an essential part of the festive season.
A Good Row
Before Morgan came along, Tony and I had some real humdingers - tears, tantrums, followed by heavy duty chats until two in the morning...what should we do now?
Disharmony
"The last thing I want when I come home is for Sarah to play her Beethoven as loud as she can. I get recurring dreams now in which all I hear is Beethoven - they're almost nightmares...
When Harold met Jackie...
He was 61 and she was 14..."I thought, I must be mad marrying somebody that much older than me. So I applied to do voluntary services overseas...
Forbidden Love
The last time I spoke to my family was 3 years ago because every time I rang up I was getting threats. We've moved 21 times. We sleep with knives and a baseball bat by our bed...
My Dad's a Woman
"If your father wants to be a woman, then she might as well look good. Although Susan is still my father, I don't have a father daughter-relationship anymore."
Beer, Smoke and Spit
"When I catch a whiff of someone lighting up a pipe - instantly I'm ten. I'm at Filbert Street with my dad and Uncle Ken. It's as if I'm there, transported by this smokey magic smell..."
Second Time Around
As Mark and Nargess celebrate the eleventh anniversary of their second marriage, they tell Home Truths why it worked this time around.
Build Your Own
"I've always wanted to have a garden with roses, I grew up on a council estate and we never had a garden" Claire, Simon and Nathan on the joys of having their own home.
The Game of Doors
"It illustrated the fickle nature of human relations... there were people who would be least expected to give you assistance, often members of your own family who were traditional rivals, they would suddenly find that they were cooperating with you."
Music Practice
"Nicola Harrison is being driven mad by her children's excuses for avoiding their music practice. "If music be the food of love, then why does it give me indigestion and send my blood pressure through the roof?"
Inheritance
"I'd sell the whole lot, quickly, or worse! I'd like to take a rifle to the chickens. I quite like the paperweights and the fish. But the rest ..."
Dogs
"I brought him to the park and within a week I knew hundreds of people..literally. Dogs are much more sociable, less class-inclined, pedigrees don't just walk with pedigrees, they all muck in together."
Cot Capers
"It's Calder's first night in a 'big bed' and at midnight, his mother, Janet is sneaking along the corridor to check he's still in it. She's desperate that he should stay there rather than wake her up at 5.00 am - which is exactly what happens."
My Daughter's Dating
"I myself was always charm itself with girls' parents. I brought flowers and discussed pottery... yet, when out of the parental ambit, the fires burnt fast and foolish..."
Misunderstanding
"My mother said, 'Sit with your back to the engine - it'll make you sick.' So I spent the entire train journey in fear that the people opposite me would vomit all over me."
My Adopted Little Sweetheart
"You get these mixed feelings. I raised him, but she bore him and I think we now just share him quite happily ..." How Ann felt when her adopted son was re-united with his birth family.
The Modern Godparent
"The Baptism service says that they are to help the child learn the Christian faith." But John Tuskey went to a Christening to find out what being a Godparent is really all about in the late 90's.
Party Politics
Mavis Cheek on a party game with a difference. All you need is some husbands, some wives and a single woman...
Just Good Friends
"You'll end up with good old George." But Lorna tells the story how she and George have just remained good friends - without sex getting in the way.
Man and Machine
What excuses a 27 year old man from riding his scooter down the supermarket aisle? Ask Nick Walker - he's in love with his machine!
In the Chicken House
Home Truths listener Deirdre Stewart describes the childhood games she used to play inspired by 1940's films.
My Brain Tells Me What To Eat!
How will John (7) and Miranda (10) react to a plate full of squid? In which Adrian Mourby goes to Venice with his children...
A Throwaway Remark.
"Every Sunday we went to the cemetery. In a normal grieving process people learn to let go and move on, but I don鈥檛 think we did as a family."
Telephone Trials
"We have five telephones in our house... including a pay phone for the daughter." Michelle Hanson explains why the art of telephone etiquette is lost on her family.
Arranged Marriages
"About a year ago Dad asked me if I objected him looking for a husband for me."
University-educated Sharon tells how her father found her an ideal man.
Losing a Brother
Following a series of interviews about bereavement this week John Peel heard from
Shelley Bovey who lost her younger brother when she was nineteen.
Fair or Unfair
How much rent should you charge an adult offspring returning home to live? We took a straw poll of Home Truths' listeners.
Holiday Hell
"My son hankered for holidays that involved physical danger - things that I'd pay money not to do." Frank Wilson reports on why best friends and family can fall out while away.
On the Move
Have you ever regretted having to up sticks and move house? The Avery family had to give up a remote Scottish Island for Bournemouth.
Car Appeal
Tom Bussman once possessed a ludicrously over-powered four-wheel penile substitute: a Porsche his family refused to be seen in.
The Art of Snogging
"I remember my first snog. It was the start of a brief but memorable holiday romance in Cornwall...."
Weekend Lie-In.
Michelle Hanson details the struggle she has trying to get a well-deserved lie-in at the weekend...
Kids' Dens
From tree houses to rhododendrons bushes, Katy Walsh discovers the hide-aways children create to escape their parents...
Machine Mayhem
Anne Enright exposes the strange way we behave towards inanimate objects...
Angling Urge
"Computer games are simple, whereas fishing - there's more to it."
