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🗓️ 26 June 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello, I'm John Sweeney and I'm here to tell you about a new LBC podcast called The Followers, hosted by Sheila Fogarty. |
0:19.3 | For nearly two years, Sheila was stalked by a complete stranger. |
0:23.4 | This awful experience has had a profound effect on Sheila's life, |
0:28.1 | and in this podcast she bravely recounts her own personal experience |
0:32.0 | and looks at how the law around stalking is barely fit for purpose. |
0:38.4 | Sheila's with me now to tell us a bit more about her reason for making this podcast. |
0:44.2 | Sheila, why did you want to make this podcast? |
0:49.2 | It was such a big thing that happened to me, |
0:51.3 | and nobody was more surprised at the depths of its effect on me than I was |
0:58.2 | because to start with I kind of batted it away as an annoyance and irritation something that could |
1:06.9 | easily be managed out of my life, managed away. |
1:16.0 | And I learnt the hard way that that's not how stalking works. |
1:17.7 | Stalkers are obsessive. |
1:21.1 | They don't give up easily. |
1:23.1 | They don't stop easily. |
1:32.1 | It takes an awful lot to dissuade a stalker from carrying on. So I was approaching it with too much of a focus on just a simple managing it out, thinking it would be a quick situation and it wasn't. |
1:40.5 | I was really clear at the end of this experience, if it's not really over, it's never over really. |
1:46.2 | I was really clear that there was a lot to know about this |
1:49.5 | and that I could have managed it differently, better, faster. |
1:56.8 | And there was so much to it that I wanted to dig into, into the issue of stalking. |
2:03.0 | I just wanted to know more about it. |
2:06.8 | And actually, I very actively wanted people to have information about it. |
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