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Are the diaries we kept as teenagers toe-curlingly bad?

Writing a diary - why we do it, is it helpful psychologically and what is it like to look back upon your younger self? Jane Garvey reads from her own diary she kept as a teenager and she is joined by the violinist and avid diary keeper Tasmin Little and the author and academic Sally Bayley.

First broadcast on Woman's Hour, 9 May 2016.

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