Summary
Police officer Clodagh Dunlop is used to dealing with emergency situations — until it’s her own. It’s Easter Monday 2015: Clodagh Dunlop is an ambitious police officer in Northern Ireland. A fit 35-year-old, she’s in training to run a 6-minute mile. But her day off takes a terrifying turn, and Clodagh finds herself trapped in her own body … hearing the conversations around her but unable to communicate. Then she finds the strength to make a remarkable breakthrough.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Greg Jenner. I'm the host of Your Dead to Me, where the best names in comedy and history |
| 0:05.5 | join me to learn about and laugh at the past. You are a traitor. And in the new series, we'll meet |
| 0:11.2 | Aristotle. I think he might have been a time traveller. Someone who's like almost a glitch. |
| 0:15.3 | We'll dive into the causes of the British Civil Wars in the 1600s. In England at this period, |
| 0:19.8 | there's people can't get on the housing ladder. |
| 0:21.5 | This sounds familiar. And we'll discover the arts and crafts movement. I love the clothes. I love |
| 0:26.5 | the vibe. Yes, we're a comedy show that takes history seriously and then laughs at it. You're dead to me. |
| 0:31.3 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:39.2 | Hello and welcome. |
| 0:44.7 | Emergency responders are trained to help us during some of the toughest moments of our lives, but how difficult is it if that's your job and that moment is happening to you? |
| 0:50.1 | That was the case with Clodagh Dunlop, who eight years ago had a successful career as an officer in the police service of Northern Ireland. |
| 0:57.3 | She was in her 30s, fit, active, loved her work, but everything changed on Easter Monday, 2015. |
| 1:05.5 | Clodagh had just sat down at home and was tucking into a chocolate Easter egg when something came out of the blue, altering |
| 1:11.9 | the world as she knew it, and offering her a completely different perspective on her life and her |
| 1:17.2 | job. Clodagh's with me now from our Belfar studio. Hello, Clodagh. Good morning. Good morning. You |
| 1:24.5 | grew up in Northern Ireland, didn't you? What was it like growing up there? |
| 1:34.3 | I did. I grew up in the 80s in Northern Ireland, so we had still the troubles ongoing. |
| 1:42.3 | My uncle was a servant police officer in Northern Ireland, and he was actually murdered in 1976, just a few years prior to me being born. |
| 1:46.7 | He was murdered while on Mobile Patrol. |
| 1:50.2 | He was shot by the IRA. |
| 1:52.6 | Gosh, that must have really impacted your family. |
| 1:54.6 | Did you feel it, even though you weren't there at the time? |
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