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Airtimes: Indian Standard Times
Saturday, January 7 at 09:30am, 20:00hrs and 22:30hrs
Sunday, January 8 at 06:00am, 17:00hrs and 20:30hrs,
Monday, January 9 at 09:00am
This week on TALK ASIA, host Lorraine Hahn speaks to Britain’s
Sarah, Duchess of York, about her life now and as a member of the
royal family. Sarah Ferguson became a household name when she married
Prince Andrew, the Duke of York in July 1986. But she made even
more headlines with her subsequent separation and divorce, just
a decade later.
She looks back on her life as a royal. “It’s very difficult
when you go into any organization where you have to keep certain
traditions.… I ran around trying to please everybody, maybe
I should have remained firm. You know, like Dorothy in the Wizard
of Oz...you go there, and there’s a big voice, and all this
is so frightening, and then you go behind the curtain, and it’s
not all really that frightening.”
SARAH FERGUSON
Sarah talks about her dedication to the charity SOS Villages, one
of the NGOs dedicated to helping child victims of the deadly South
Asian Tsunami of 2003. “I am preparing a trip to go there later
on (in the) year. I feel that, I’ve always been one of these
people, and when I started Children in Crisis, that it’s very
important to go where children are forgotten,” she said.
But she adds that while there is much work to be done in a disaster,
the real crisis occurs when children are neglected in everyday life,
“…when a disaster hits, like the tsunami…I notice
everyone focuses on it, and the media’s there, a lot of money’s
raised, and I absolutely think it’s dead right, but, what about
the other children? What about the pediatric problem of children
dying with AIDS in Africa, what about the children of Romania, of
Poland, there is still this mass urgency to give a child a life….We
must always keep our eye on the focus, on where the demands of children
are.”
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