Listen again to these short podcasts as Louise interviews military families on their experiences of raising Little Troopers through their military journeys.
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Lianne and daughter Mai join Louise to talk all things lockdown. As a military family living unaccompanied navigating working from home, homeschooling and how they made it as fun and positive as they could.
In this episode Louise talks to Ed who met his now husband and soon after the wedding packed up and moved to Cyprus. They talk about living abroad with the military, meeting people and the impact of the pandemic which for Ed included an operation.
Jayne and Louise talk about the realities of deployment during a global pandemic and national lockdown. From feeling isolated, the impact on children to those awkward homecomings and depleting emotional fuel tanks.
Gill and Louise met through the work of Little Troopers and have remained friends for many years. In this episode Louise and Gill talk busy military life when both serving, a shock cancer diagnosis and using recovery to go onto great things…the Invictus Games!
Megan is a Little Trooper herself…not so little as she is now 17 years old. She joins Louise to talk about her experiences of living as a military child both in the UK and based overseas, pandemic deployment and how she’s tried to take her experiences and turn into positives.
Emma joins Louise in this first episode to begin Series Two.
Emma talks about miscarriage, her busy nursing career, military life and the beautiful arrival of their rainbow baby Alexander during the global pandemic this year.
Family Time is a feature of the radio show Team Talk broadcast on BFBS Radio, this show was produced by TBI Media and made possible with funding from the Audio Content Fund