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Saturday, January 7 at 09:30am, 20:00hrs and 22:30hrs

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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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