When Ellen De Meyer delivered her baby girl, she was over the moon to give her son a baby sister. But when her daughter Pia was just 3 months old, Ellen noticed that something was wrong with Pia's movement and strength.

Pia was diagnosed with SMA Type 1, which can be life-limiting. There was a medicine that could save her, but it cost over £1.5m.

And what happened next, is enough to restore anyone's faith in humanity.

This is REAL LIVES.

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To follow Pia's journey, here Instagram page is here:

www.instagram.com/@teampia2018

or to connect with Ellen please see here:

https://www.instagram.com/ellendm1986

Ellen wrote a book on her experiences, it is currently only available in Dutch:

https://share.google/Vw1sPTuyHt6ffjUoH

To find out more about the signs and symptoms of SMA Type 1, please see here:

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/spinal-muscular-atrophy-sma/

'Welcome to Holland' is written by Emily Perl Kingsley and you can find out more about her work here:

https://www.emilyperlkingsley.com/welcome-to-holland

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If someone we loved is killed by someone else, we rely on detectives in the major crime teams to catch the killer.

In this episode, murder detective Steve Keogh talks us through his career, how he has foiled terrorism plots, caught killers and got justice for than 100 murder victims.

This is REAL LIVES.

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To buy Steve's book, see here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Murder-Investigation-Team-Steven-Keogh/dp/1789466423

Or check out Steve's website:

https://stevekeogh.com/

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Many of us have different points of view from our spouse, but what happens when your partner becomes a full time conspiracy theorist?

This is exactly what happened to Louise Williamson. And she's here to tell us about her experience.

This is REAL LIVES.

To find out more about Louise's experience and how she started to heal, you can find her wonderful book 'My Husband, The Rabbit Hole and Me - When Marriage Becomes a Cult', here:

https://amzn.eu/d/fGJmc0F

And Louise's website is here:

https://www.louisewilliamsonwriter.com/

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