5 live Family Week
For the last month, I've been working on a special project called Family Week. From Stephen Nolan's show on Sunday 5 December through to the following Friday we're going to be taking a look at the family in the 21st century, across the whole 5 live schedule.
We're constantly being told that the family is under threat, divorce rates are soaring, and children need better parenting. We decided to find out if this is true or if the family is still very much the focus of our lives.
We ran a survey (a completely self-selecting one) on our website a few weeks ago. We asked you questions about loads of different aspects of family life. Almost 7,000 of you got in touch, an you gave us some fascinating stories and insights. You've been really honest and upfront with us.
There's a special focus on fathers during Family Week. Many of our presenters are going to be talking about their dads or step dads. Tony Livesey will be talking about his relationship with his father after his mother died when he was young. Rachel Burden says her father is her harshest critic:
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Shelagh Fogarty's been back to Ireland to record a Who Do You Think You Are?-style piece about her family history for Tuesday 7 December. She found out more about a great grandmother who had 15 children, and her dad's cousin who died after being run over by a car when he was 2 in 1916.
We wrap up the week by asking you about your family secrets on Friday 10 December. All day, you can text, email or tweet to tell us something about your family you haven't told anyone before. Do get in touch. Drive are particularly interested in finding out about a secret your granny or grandad never told you but you've since found out. Click here to contact the programme.
I hope you enjoy it. There'll be lots of content on the website too. And remember, please get in touch if there's anything you'd like to tell us about your family.
Comment number 1.
At 2nd Dec 2010, Jackstumps wrote:Sounds like Rachel Burdon's Dad is a sensible chap. Any chance he could have a word in the ear of Bacon and Nolan?
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Comment number 2.
At 2nd Dec 2010, ryanw wrote:Well, well, well, 7000 respondents to a survey hosted exclusively on this site. An interesting statistic.
Opt-in rates are traditionally very low... low single digits... and 7000 represents more 20% of the 5Live twitter audience.
What this tells me is a little more attention to this blog and the little less obession with Twitter would be well in order as clearly there's a far greater potential here for audience engagement on Twitter.
Nigel? Hello?
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Comment number 3.
At 6th Dec 2010, lunchtime_legend wrote:At least there's no need for Phil Williams to tell us about his family - we get that every week.
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Comment number 4.
At 6th Dec 2010, lunchtime_legend wrote:According to the 5live social science research institute Britain isn't broken.
So that's all right then.
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Comment number 5.
At 8th Dec 2010, tuff_ac wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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