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Kick off your weekend in style with television and radio personality, journalist and teen ambassador Gemma Cairney as she opens up to writer, illustrator and performer Laura Dockrill about how magic and messed up life can be. Join these two fabulous women for a lively, honest and open discussion about all the big, bad and beautiful things that growing up is all about: from mental health to families to first love, and everything in between.

Cairney is an important advocate for young people. Her life experiences and her personal insight from her time as Radio 1’s resident agony aunt on The Surgery mean she is perfectly placed to offer hope and a huge comforting cuddle to young people (and the people that love them) and to help deal with questions about life or dealing with hard times. She is a multi-award-winning broadcaster, writer, producer and general polymath, known for her irreverent approach, insatiable appetite for telling stories and her sparkling imagination. She is artist in residence at The Southbank Centre and is on the committee for Women Of The World Festival.

Dockrill is a writer/illustrator and author of the Darcy Burdock books and Mistakes in the Background, Ugly Shy Girl, and Echoes. She was named one of the top ten literary talents by The Times and one of the top 20 faces to watch by Elle magazine. Dockrill is a graduate of the BRIT School of performing Arts and has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, Camp Bestival, Latitude, and Bookslam festivals.

Age teen-adult