My Childhood in the Care System, with Baroness Lola Young
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Sorrenti. Our guest today is Baroness Lola Young. Lola Young is a member of the House of Lords, as well as an actress, an academic, an activist and campaigner for social justice. Lola's new memoir is called Eight Weeks, which tells her remarkable life story from a
childhood in foster care to becoming one of the first black women in the House of Lords. In eight weeks, through her care records, fragments of memory and her imagination where parts of her story are missing, Lola assembles the pieces of her past into a portrait of a childhood in the care system. Joining Lola to discuss her memoir is Habiba Katcher, a journalist who specializes in writing about race, gender, beauty, and internet culture. Now let's join Habiba in conversation with Lola Young. Hello, welcome to Intelligence Squared.
I am a journalist, my name is Habiba Katcha. Our guest today is Baroness Lola Young. Lola Young is a member of the House of Lords as well as an actress, an academic, an activist and a campaigner for social justice. Today we'll be discussing Lola's new memoir, Eight Weeks. which tells her remarkable life story from her childhood in foster care to becoming one of the first black women in the House of Lords.
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