Summary
It’s 1996 and Jill Clark has been living in Guernsey for less than a year. It’s been a glorious summer and she is looking forward to her 25th birthday. Like for most young people looks are important to her. A journey home from the pub is about to make Jill question the importance of the human face.
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| 0:00.0 | Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I want to tell you why I love podcasting. |
| 0:04.7 | Hi, my name's Tommy Dixon, and I make podcasts for the BBC. |
| 0:08.4 | I'm a big fan of stories, always loved a good book. |
| 0:11.4 | But when I started commuting for my first job, I discovered podcasts. |
| 0:15.4 | I was blown away by how a creative idea and the right mixture of sounds could take you into |
| 0:19.2 | a whole new world full of incredible stories. You know, the type that make you go, wow. And that kind of inspired me to |
| 0:25.2 | give it a go myself, which to cut a long story short led to a BBC training scheme and a whole |
| 0:30.0 | new career giving other people that exact same feeling. So if you want to hear amazing stories |
| 0:34.2 | that make you go wow like I did, they're just a tap or click away on BBC sounds |
| 0:40.9 | BBC sounds music radio podcasts hello now i think probably most of us are familiar maybe only too |
| 0:48.9 | familiar with our own face even if all you venture is a cursory glance first thing in the morning, you can't not be |
| 0:57.7 | aware of the effects of time, the ravages of it perhaps. And whether you like what you see or not, |
| 1:04.0 | there is no denying that at least in part your face defines you. My guest today is a woman |
| 1:10.0 | called Jill Clark, and she came to understand this |
| 1:12.8 | probably rather more than most after a life-changing event 25 years ago. Jill lives in Guernsey |
| 1:19.2 | in the Channel Islands and she wrote to us to tell us her story. Here she is. When I was young I would |
| 1:25.0 | go to school and it was all about your image but then you would go home and you'd shut the door and you know, you didn't think about it until the next day. |
| 1:32.2 | Now it is 24-7. |
| 1:34.0 | It is in your face all the time on social media. |
| 1:36.9 | There is no escape. |
| 1:37.9 | No escape at all. |
| 1:39.5 | No respite from it all. |
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