John Humphrys in conversation with successful people who have weathered storms in their careers.
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Tuesday 22nd April
Birgit Cunningham had it all: the clothes, the looks, the money. A regular on the London socialite scene, she was an ‘it-girl’ in every sense of the word. She headed to Hollywood where she dated Kevin Costner. But she fell foul to drugs and alcohol.
On her return to England she became pregnant and found herself alone, living in a bedsit with a small child. Birgit Cunningham tells John Humphrys her riches to rags story for On The Ropes just after the news at nine o’clock on Tuesday morning and again at half-past nine in the evening
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