Andy Vining shares his mother’s diaries in his new podcast.
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Podcast Title: My Mother’s Diaries 1948 -1976
Episode 1 — Introduction
Hello… and welcome to this podcast.
My name is Andy Vining.
I’m eighty-two years old and as I record this, I I’m sitting quietly at home in Chandler’s Ford in Hampshire thinking about the past, and about the voices, people and places that shaped my life.
This podcast is not about me. It’s about our family. Memories, places, and the quiet, everyday moments that would normally be lost to time.
Most of all, it’s about my mother. And the diaries she wrote about her everyday life being a farmer’s wife and mother of five children while we were all growing up in on Hiltonbury Farm in Chandler’s Ford.
My mother was Peggy “Peg” Vining Nee Miller. Then when my brother Simon was born in 1958 she became BeBe because that’s what Simon called her.
But before I begin to read those diaries, I think it’s only right that I tell you a little about where this story truly starts… and how I come to be here, speaking to you today. [Read more…] about Andy Vining’s Podcast: My Mother’s Diaries 1948 – 1976: Episode 1 — Introduction
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