11 | Nicky Campbell & Esther Cameron

03/02/21 • 33 min

Broadcaster Nicky Campbell first met his birth sister Esther as adults, after they had independently traced their Irish birth mother. Both had been given up for adoption as babies, grew up in Edinburgh and were left with complicated feelings around belonging. In his new book 'One of the Family' Nick tells the whole story of his breakdown, diagnosis as bi-polar and being saved by the love of his dog, Maxwell. In this episode of Relatively, he and Esther share their parallel stories and reflect on questions of identity, family and the bond they now share as siblings.

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10 | Anna "Mother Pukka" Whitehouse & Karen Whitehouse

Anna Whitehouse – aka Mother Pukka – and her little sister Karen Whitehouse (creator of true crime podcast "Who Shat On The Floor At My Wedding?") got off to a fractious start as siblings, with episodes of bum pinching, shin kicking and trolling through poetry. But something altered on a family holiday, and since then they have been incredibly close: “the yin to each other’s yang”. Karen (Anna’s self appointed life producer) pieced her big sister back together again after miscarriage and post-natal depression, and Anna is forever grateful to her “much funnier”, incredibly kind and patient sibling.

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Stand up comedian Ahir Shah and his older sister Akanksha (Tash, Didi, Dips) are eight years apart but incredibly close. Ahir arrived like a Christmas present for Tash, who loved caring for him as a baby and still worries about him now - especially when he lays bare his soul on stage. The pair grew up in a funny household with 'giggly' parents where money worries couldn't take the shine off the fact that their childhood was "good in all the ways it was important to be good." As adults, they describe their relationship as 'wonderful' and work as a team on starting to 'parent their parents' a little bit..

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