The talk show table is usually not the place where the most vulnerable conversations are held. Sharp questions, weak questions, heated discussions, great hilarity – yes, we see that enough. But a conversation in which two women, including the presenter, put their deepest sorrow on the table and the rest of those present are moved and listen uncomfortably and remain silent, that rarely happens.
I have the interview of Nadia Moussaid with Marieke Poelmann in On 1 watching with a lump in my throat. Poelmann lost her parents in the plane crash in Tripoli and has now written a book about her unwanted childlessness and the fertility process that she and her husband are going through. Her story was in a few weeks ago Half, so I knew it. Although reading something is different from hearing someone say something and looking into someone’s eyes.
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