BONUS PRIVATE MOMENT: Roman Kemp discusses his documentary 'Our Silent Emergency'
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Peter Cowley
4.7 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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*TRIGGER WARNING: This episode includes topics surrounding suicide and mental health*
Hello all you Private Parters, welcome back to the podcast where nothing is off limits.
Tom is away on tour, and so in his absence, we have a Bonus Private Moment for you all. Today, we journey back to when we had presenter Roman Kemp on the pod. In this clip, he discusses his documentary, Roman Kemp: Our Silent Emergency, in which he opens up about the tragic and unexpected loss of his radio producer and best friend, Joe, to suicide.
Roman's new documentary Roman Kemp: The Fight For Young Lives is out on 1st November on BBC 3 at 9pm.
For more information and support you can go to mentalhealth.org.uk or mind.org.uk, or if you need to speak to someone urgently call 116 123 to talk to Samaritans.
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| 0:00.0 | And can you believe we're on Series 10 and what a series it's going to be where kicking |
| 0:07.1 | off with guests like Luana, Laurie Haynes and none other than Katie Bryce? |
| 0:11.7 | And guys don't forget, if you think you've had a mystical you're going to listen back |
| 0:14.9 | to some amazing episodes with guests like Leverwood, Jack Josser, Amy Childs, Fog Williams, |
| 0:20.5 | here third none plus Lord's Lord's Ball. Enjoy! |
| 0:30.2 | Before we kick off the episode, I think we should just give a little warning that this has a lot |
| 0:35.6 | to talk about mental health, a lot to talk about suicide. And if this is triggering for anyone, |
| 0:40.5 | perhaps be warned, maybe don't listen to it. Or if it is, we put loads of links in the |
| 0:46.0 | description, where you can go to to look for help. |
| 0:52.4 | Hey guys, welcome to another episode of our private moments. It's now Shauna Sweet episodes |
| 0:56.5 | where you round up all of our favourite guests and all of our favourite moments and different |
| 0:59.6 | things. And this is a little private moment for you. I hope you enjoy it. |
| 1:04.3 | You've had like a lot of heartache. |
| 1:06.6 | Yeah, yeah. You have had a lot of heartache. |
| 1:09.1 | But my thing is it's, and I'm sure you can agree, there becomes a moment where you just realise |
| 1:17.0 | that's life. And that is what it is. And you have to understand that. And sometimes it is |
| 1:25.4 | really, really shit. And it's about how you progress from that. And are you going to be one of |
| 1:33.3 | those people that looks on it and you go, whoa is me? And this bad shit happens to me. |
| 1:38.3 | And that's why someone should feel sorry for me or anything like that. Or are you going to be |
| 1:41.5 | someone that's like, you know, this is the situation. I feel like there's an equal and opposite |
| 1:45.6 | to it. So obviously it's so shit. But then out the other side, you can actually take so much |
| 1:50.1 | positive to feel like you have to like almost deconstruct and break down something to then build out |
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