Love Stories: Told by you
Lives Less Ordinary

Love Stories: Told by you

B1IntermediateSeptember 7, 202650 min

Now it’s your turn to share. A bonus episode to end our Love Stories series where you tell the world how your true love grew. Fiona Smiley Wright got in touch about an extraordinary romance that was hiding right under her nose for most of her life, growing up in Northern Ireland. It wasn’t until her parents passed away that Fiona and her three brothers discovered years of love letters between them, while separated by war. Fiona tells Asya the tale of a silver cigarette box that her mother Elizabeth gifted to her father Tom, a su...

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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. I'm not going to do this, but I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. love stories. And today on Lives Less Ordinary, we're passing the mic over to you.

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Can you hear me? Yes. Wow. It's so great to hear you actually speaking not through podcasts, but actually in person. I saw a prince from a fairy tale. He had blue eyes and golden locks. And so I just I thought, wow, I hope he doesn't have a girlfriend.

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I have low vision, but this was, for me, it was love at first sight. My first time meeting Hannah was when I came back from university and my mother told me

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