The Friendship File
By Podcart
Do you ever wonder how your friends really see you? What would life be like if they weren't around? Parents, partners, children all come and go, but our friends stay - witnesses, cheerleaders, therapists, playmates. Each friendship is unique. But what makes it work? Two friends answer 17 questions about each other - on their own and without conferring. Each episode is a combination of those answers, flipping open the blueprint of one of the world's most valuable things - a friendship.
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7. Glenys and Raafat
Six years ago, a young man climbed off a tiny boat onto a Greek beach. He was clutching his shoes and could only say one thing to the woman holding out her arms to him: "Are we safe now?" It was the start of something no one could have predicted. -
6. Tony and Rohan
On the steps of a politics tutorial there was an accusation. "You don't know anything about me." That changed. There was a roast chicken involved. More than one. This is the story of thirty years of mutual support ... and insults! -
5. The top 5 things friends say ...
Five key things come up again and again as our friends talk about each other and their relationships. Five things that could make a difference to our own friendships. In this short mid-season special, find out what the friends are trying to tell us. -
4. Elna and Tina
"I am the reason she always carries snacks in her handbag." "She is like a dance I know all the moves to." Two young women guiding each other through life, creating a strong, honest, playful relationship as they do it. -
4. Catherine and Louise
Catherine Carr and Louise Halling met as students and bonded over dodgy sign language. They have been talking ever since. Find out how they've helped create - literally and figuratively - each other's life story. -
3. Martin and Michael
Martin Plimmer and Michael Magenis met on a bus or over a bottle of vodka ... no one is sure. What is certain is they were destined to go places together neither would have reached alone. They became The Men Who Know, sharing 24-hour schnapps-fuelled… -
2. Emma and Richard
Emma Freud and Richard Coles met at the beginning of their TV careers - he was a pop star, she was interviewing people in a double bed and both were new to the job. They just clicked. In the first of a new Friendship File series, they reveal a secret… -
1. Welcome to Series Two
The Friendship File is back - two friends recording answers to 17 questions, on their own and without conferring. Each episode combines those answers. The results are surprising, funny, moving, weird, life-affirming and, usually, a bit of a revelatio… -
17. Series One - The Reunion
What was it like the first time you spoke? Has doing The Friendship File made a difference? What have you learned? In this Series One finale, our friends reveal what happened next. -
16. Dorothy and Chantelle
These girls seem like chalk and cheese but they share one thing - they're both misfits. Their connection leads to an enduring friendship no one could have predicted.