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Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast project designed to let me spend more time

than I'd ever get on the radio with interesting people.

Although in the case of Baroness Loli Young, I'm fairly confident that an hour will not be enough.

Yes, I'm afraid I'm a bit of a talker, James.

So let's go for it and see what happens.

Well, I don't know where to begin because your new book eight weeks addresses the first part of your life. And yet, of course, it's a subsequent

parts of your life with which some people listening will be familiar. Some people will not.

And then the bits in between, if you like, are equally interesting.

So let's begin with the beginning.

Why is the book called eight weeks?

It's called eight weeks because that's the age at which I was handed over by my, I think, mother and father together to a foster mother, an elderly white woman in Tuffel Park Road, North London. And so, yes,

that was my start in foster care. And yet you believe for many years that you were six weeks.

Yeah, I did. And actually, that might seem like a trivial thing. But I don't know about you, but when I

learned from reading the records that it was

eight weeks, what it meant to me was that that was another two weeks that I'd spent with my

mother and that she'd still decided that she couldn't cope for whatever reason with looking

after me. So although it's a relatively trivial thing, it did feel like a big moment.

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