Divorce, Ruby Wax, the FIRE movement, Strings duo Balladeste

Published: Aug. 20, 2021, 11:04 a.m.

How common is it to experience \u2018hate\u2019 towards someone you once loved? We tend to think of 'hate' as one of the strongest emotions we can have, so what happens if you find yourself 'hating' your former partner, particularly if you have children with them. We discuss why some people experience this during or after the breakdown of their relationship, and how to move on from it.

In the early 1990s Ruby Wax smashed out of the TV studio and rewrote the rule book on the celebrity chat show with 'When Ruby Wax Met\u2026'. She joins Anita to look back at some of these encounters with stars such as Grace Jones, Carrie Fisher, Imelda Marcos, and one particularly memorable encounter with a future US President and his new girlfriend - a Mr Donald Trump.

As part of our money series, we are looking at the FIRE Movement. The acronym, which stands for Financial Independence, Retire Early, is a method of extreme saving, in order to retire \u2013 or stop working \u2013 decades earlier. Recent studies suggest that over half of millennials do not see themselves as 'emotionally and behaviourally' connected to their job and company. Exhausted from high-pressure jobs and with a growing sense of burnout, some millennials are turning to the FIRE strategy in an attempt to become financially independent, sooner. Emma-Lou Montgomery is a personal finance and investment writer at Fidelity International, and Sarah Pennells is a Consumer Finance Specialist from the Royal London.

Indian-American violinist Preetha Narayanan and British cellist Tara Franks met while studying at the Guildhall School of Music and went on to form a strings duo \u2013 Balladeste. Their style has been described as Contemporary Classical meets Folk in its broadest form - Indo-Baroque meets alt-folk minimalism. For their new album, Beyond Breath, they have taken fragments of melodic lines from a set of Indian devotional songs learnt in Preetha\u2019s childhood as inspiration. They join Anita to discuss the cross-cultural melding of their musical ideas and styles.

Presenter: Anita Rani\nProducer: Kirsty Starkey

Interviewed Guest: Ruby Wax\nInterviewed Guest: Sara Davison\nInterviewed Guest: Fahima Mahomed\nInterviewed Guest: Sarah Pennells\nInterviewed Guest: Emma-Lou Montgomery\nInterviewed Guest: Preetha Narayanan\nInterviewed Guest: Tara Franks