From the rubble

Life Changing

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6 • 735 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

It had been a beautiful day, Jessica Williams and her two young sons had been out in the local park enjoying the Welsh sunshine. By the time they got home they were happy but weary and looking forward to some cosy time on the sofa but as Jess opened the front door she noticed a strange smell. She put the boys in the sitting room and went into the kitchen to investigate — that was when the house exploded. Jessica tells Dr Sian Williams how the family, with the help of their village, began to rebuild their lives.

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0:00.0	Eleven climbers appeared to have died on the world's second highest mountain K2.
0:06.0	It was one of the deadliest days in mountaineering history.
0:10.0	Rock falls, avalanches.
0:11.0	Huge pieces of ice. All are big enough to kill you.
0:14.0	He just flew out into Devoid and he was gone.
0:17.0	How did it all go so wrong?
0:19.0	And is it really worth risking death to feel alive? Why would
0:23.2	somebody pay to go to a place called the death cell on a vacation? Extreme, peak danger. With me,
0:29.9	Natalia Melman Petrazella. Listen to the full series now. First on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:40.4	Hello and welcome.
0:42.3	We all know that life can change in a flash.
0:45.4	One moment, it's going one way, the next, everything shifts.
0:48.7	And you have to find new ways of living and being.
0:52.1	Jess Williams and her family have been doing just that since the moment
0:55.9	in June 2020. Jess, her partner Michael and their young sons, Ruben and Elliot, had, like the
1:03.1	rest of us, just come out of lockdown. And they were looking forward to things, getting back to
1:07.6	something like normal. Jess joins me now from Swansea.
1:11.2	Hello, Jess.
1:12.1	Hello.
1:12.7	Nice to hear your voice.
1:13.9	Thank you.
1:14.6	So just tell us about life up until June 2020.
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