by Jan Leeming
Twice voted Newsreader of the Year and TV Personality of the Year, Jan Leeming has had a long and varied career in television. In 2003 she released her autobiography 'Addicted to Love'. Never before released as an audio book, Jan now takes to the Podcast airwaves to put that right. "Someone needs to give Jan Leeming her own show, immediately. The woman is a revelation" - Stuart Heritage, The Guardian 1/2/2010 Bookings: simon@simonwhittam.com
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November 1, 2022
<p>When Jan Leeming received an invitation to the annual Battle of Britain Memorial Day in July 2007 she had no idea of the journey it would set her upon. After sponsoring a name on the Memorial she set about finding out more about the stranger she had been allocated.</p> <p><br></p> <p>"After a professional lifetime of interviewing and researching I was eager to find out more.... up came Rene's name on a Google search and the fact that he had written diaries during the war, which were published post-war... I am a romantic, pure and simple, and decided I would source a copy of the original diaries in French. Finding a copy in an antiquarian bibliotheque in Belgium, I sent off the very reasonable sum of 10 Euros plus postage and soon received a copy with, would you believe, a little calling card stuck inside the cover to a Monsieur and Madame Griser, thanking them and sending her best wishes from 'Madame O. Mouchotte'. What were the chances of that happening and that book ending up in my possesion? I did not realise then that I was 'on a mission' and the more delving I did, the more I discovered, and the more deeply moved I became."</p> <p><br></p> <p>In a special episode of her successful podcast Jan Leeming charts her journey to bring the story of Rene Mouchotte to television and their republication.</p> <p><br></p>
July 12, 2022
Jan Leeming concludes the reading of her autobiography 'Addicted to Love' - taking us back to 2002. Romance beckons again and leads to a move to Kent. She talks of her friendship with Jill Dando "I was incredibly flattered when Jill told me I'd been her role model in my days at HTV" and how sunflowers remind her of her. Then returning home she finds a note from her husband and her world falls apart "It took a second or two for reality to dawn. I still remember the cold shiver that went through my body despite the warmth of the day. I felt dizzy and faint and heard an agonized cry from a long distance. I realised the cry was mine." This is the final episode of this series of Jan Leeming's 'Addicted to Love'. The series will be back later in the year. "In the words of Audrey Hepburn's character in the film, Roman Holiday - 'I was born with an enormous need for affection and a terrible need to give it.' I am 'Addicted to Love.'"
July 5, 2022
Reeling from her separation Jan plans a trip to South Africa but the press soon get word of her woes and pursue her for a story. She accepts a job on The Big Breakfast "It was pure adrenalin that kept me going, as I'd had very little sleep for days" before jetting off. "Not only did I miss my husband desperately, but there was no regular work to take my mind off the situation, and I was concerned about the future financially. I knew the house would have to go. It had always been seen as the largest part of my pension plan, to be sold when we retired and to capitalise on the asset. On my own I couldn't afford to retain it. I ran away again." After five weeks in Australia she returns to the UK and begins to rebuild her life. A cruise to the Norwegian fjords with her son strengthens her resolve and she makes plans to move forward "I needed closure and initiated steps to divorce. I needed that finality so that I wouldn't still be living in hope. I had to face the future on my own, to get stronger and thank God for all the good things in my life."
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Twice voted Newsreader of the Year and TV Personality of the Year, Jan Leeming has had a long and varied career in television. In 2003 she released her autobiography 'Addicted to Love'. Never before released as an audio book, Jan now takes to the Podcast airwaves to put that right.
"Someone needs to give Jan Leeming her own show, immediately. The woman is a revelation" - Stuart Heritage, The Guardian 1/2/2010
Bookings: simon@simonwhittam.com
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