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BBC Cunk on Earth Diane Morgan's real life from famous best pal to stark reason she never had kids

Actress and comedian Diane Morgan is best known for her witty humour and range of characters, but there's plenty fans may not know about her real life, from her superstar best friend to the reason why she never had children

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BBC News

women and girls in castlepollard in county westmeath. i should never have been in ireland — that's my take on that — because i was born in london. the mother and baby homes, as they were known, were seen as places of punishment. maria was eventually adopted. later, mother and daughter looked for each other. after philomena died, maria discovered they'd both lived in edinburgh at the same time. repatriations were organised by british and irish state agencies and religious charities until the 19705. research, so far, has revealed around 3,000 cases, but campaigners believe the real figure is higher. archives indicate welfare officials in britain regarded unmarried irish mothers as a burden on resources. the cost was something that theyjust kept coming back to, and this was part of the reason for the repatriation scheme.

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BBC News

you. survivors are calling for an official apology for what they say was the forced repatriation of unmarried mothers from britain to ireland during the last century. thousands of irish women and girls were sent back, despite having the legal right to live in britain. 0ur ireland correspondent, chris page, reports. she came on the ship or boat, as it was. and there were other mothers on there. i was wrapped in a blue blanket. she must have loved me so much. maria cahill is recounting a journey which happened in 195a. she'd been born in london, a british citizen. her mother, philomena, was irish and wasn't married. this was their destination — an institution for unmarried

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BBC News at One

a british citizen. her mother, philomena, was irish and wasn't married. this was their destination — an institution for unmarried women and girls in castlepollard in county westmeath. i should never have been in ireland — that's my take on that — because i was born in london. the mother and baby homes, as they were known, were seen as places of punishment. maria was eventually adopted. later, mother and daughter looked for each other. after philomena died, maria discovered they'd both lived in edinburgh at the same time. she wrote a poem about her sense of loss. you are the blood in my veins, the water in my teardrops. but still i ache. repatriations were organised by british and irish state agencies and religious charities until the 19705.

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a british citizen. her mother, philomena, was irish and wasn't married. this was their destination — an institution for unmarried women and girls in castlepollard in county westmeath. i should never have been in ireland — that's my take on that — because i was born in london. the mother and baby homes, as they were known, were seen as places of punishment. maria was eventually adopted. later, mother and daughter looked for each other. after philomena died, maria discovered they'd both lived in edinburgh at the same time. repatriations were organised by british and irish state agencies and religious charities until the 19705. research, so far, has revealed around 3,000 cases, but campaigners believe the real figure is higher. archives indicate welfare officials in britain regarded unmarried irish

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The Context

the legal right to live in britain. 0ur ireland correspondent chris page reports. she came on the ship or boat, as it was. and there were other mothers on there. i was wrapped in a blue blanket. she must have loved me so much. maria cahill is recounting a journey which happened in 195a. she'd been born in london, a british citizen. her mother, philomena, was irish and wasn't married. this was their destination — an institution for unmarried women and girls in castlepollard in county westmeath. i should never have been in ireland — that's my take on that — because i was born in london. the mother and baby homes, as they were known, were seen as places of punishment. maria was eventually adopted. later, mother and daughter looked for each other. after philomena died,

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The Context

the full truth about the lonely westward journeys across the irish sea. chris page, bbc news. well, i'm joined now by maria's daughter fiona cahill, who we heard from briefly in that piece. thanks so much for talking to us. you said in that piece we just watch that you don't want this to be swept under the carpet, you think that your mother's experience, what she went through, should be heard. just tell us if you can, reflect on your mother's experience. what did she go through? she mother's experience. what did she go throu~h? ,, , ' ., , ., ., through? she suffered a deep trauma, reall , through? she suffered a deep trauma, really. through — through? she suffered a deep trauma, really. through it _ through? she suffered a deep trauma, really, through it her _ through? she suffered a deep trauma, really, through it her whole _ through? she suffered a deep trauma, really, through it her whole life. - really, through it her whole life. she has felt this yearning for her mum. heradoption she has felt this yearning for her mum. her adoption was not a happy one, heradopted mum mum. her adoption was not a happy one, her adopted mum was abusive, so this has added very much to it, and the poem that she read their kind of expresses her feelings of and we have dealt with the upset and just

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Three strokes later, Mugabi Byenkya stands tall

His mother had anticipated a baby girl that would be named Philomena, however, a baby boy came forth, Mugabi Byenkya. Byenkya is a writer, poet, singer and aspiring podcaster

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Sportsday

now on bbc news the film review with mark kermode. hello and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. i'm jane hill. and taking us through this week's releases, as ever is mark kermode. hi, mark. hi. so we have three very different movies — the lost king, the true story of the search for sir richard iii. we have vengeance, the story of life, the universe and podcasts. and amsterdam, a star—studded new movie from director david 0 russell. so, lost king. the lost king. sally hawkins stars in, honestly, a stranger than fiction tale of philippa langley�*s quest to find and retrieve the remains of king richard iii, famously maligned by history and playwrights like shakespeare, who she comes to believe, the bones are under a car park in leicester. so the film reunites the team behind philomena, so director stephen frears, writerjeff pope and writer and costar steve coogan,

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The Film Review

seriously, fighting to find their place. and that feeling that she is being "guided" is dramatised by visions of richard, a theatrical version of richard, who she sees leading her around the world and around leicester and indeed around the locations. i think the stuff that works is, i like sally hawkins, i think she's got a very good way of doing that tremulous on the one hand but with steely resolve underneath. and i think as the story of a characterfinding her voice, it works well. i'm less convinced that it works as a piece of modern history — i mean it's serio—comic, as i say it's from the team that gave us philomena, which had a serious subject but also did have a kind of quite quirky turn to it as well. this is very quirky. yes. you've seen it too. quirky is the word. and ifind it quite hard to analyse just as a film because this is really recent history. we remember all the news items of the body being found

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