Can I Talk About Heroes?
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BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Vicky Foster's award-winning Radio 4 Audio Drama Bathwater looked at the effect the murder in 2005 in Hull of the father of her children, a firefighter, is still having on her family .
In this documentary, Can I talk about Heroes ? Vicky looks at the way society creates heroes, whether the meaning and significance of that label has changed in recent times and if the term is still useful .
This questioning has been prompted by her own story. Stephen Gallant, convicted of the murder of Vicky's ex-partner,was out on day licence attending a prisoner rehabilitation event in November 2019 when he tackled the London Bridge terrorist with a narwhal tusk, which caught the attention of the public and the media. He was quickly branded a 'hero' .
Vicky Foster talks to Dr Zeno Franco, Associate Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin Emma Kinder, Victim Support’s Homicide Regional Manager Jacquie Johnston-Lynch, Head of Services at Vitality Homes Recovery Centre Mel, a nurse working on a covid ward.
Produced by Susan Roberts, BBC Audio North
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
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| 0:39.0 | It began with a plane crash five years ago |
| 0:42.0 | and unraveled into one of the biggest scandals the world has ever seen. |
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| 1:07.0 | Hi, I'm Riana Dillon and this is Seriously. |
| 1:12.0 | Today we're bringing you another seriously interesting story told a little sideways. |
| 1:20.0 | At the end of 2019 when the terrorist attack happened I just remember all these |
| 1:28.8 | videos popping up this man running down London Bridge with a narwhalled susk and apprehending the terrorist. |
| 1:36.0 | It really caught my eye as a writer. I didn't even know that narwhals were real. |
| 1:41.0 | I thought they were like imaginary creatures didn't realize that they're like whales. |
| 1:45.9 | It looked like a clear-cut case of good overcoming evil. It played out in that physical way that we sort of want to see from our heroes, |
| 1:55.6 | especially because of the tusk looking like a lance, it like harks back to all that old |
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