Start the Week
Start the Week
BBC Radio 4
Family Secrets: Sarah Dunant and Deborah Cohen
41 minutes Posted Jan 9, 2013 at 3:04 pm.
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On Start the Week Andrew Marr begins the new year talking about lies and secrets, and the increasing blurring of public and private. Deborah Cohen charts family secrets and shame from the Victorian times to the present day, while Sarah Dunant and TV producer Alex Graham discuss how confession became entertainment, and the psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz listens to the hidden feelings of his patients.

Producer: Katy Hickman.