Hillsborough: do we inherit trauma?

Beyond Today

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🗓️ 29 November 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

96 Liverpool FC fans died at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield on 15 April 1989. It remains the worst disaster in British sporting history. The tragedy happened over 30 years ago and many say the trauma of Hillsborough has been passed on to the next generation, those who weren’t even born in 1989. In this episode we speak to the BBC’s North of England correspondent Judith Moritz about what happened at Hillsborough. We also hear from two young women who grew up in Liverpool and have been affected by the disaster; Deanna Matthews, who’s uncle died at Hillsborough, and reporter Layla Wright, who’s been covering the recent trial. Presenter: Matthew Price Producers: Alicia Burrell and Philly Beaumont Mixed by Nico Raufast Editor: John Shields

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:06.6	Hello, I'm Matthew Price.
0:08.2	Welcome to Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4,
0:10.9	a space to ask one big question about one big story.
0:14.0	Today, Hilsbrough, do we inherit trauma?
0:27.0	Nowadays people talk about the 96, 96 people who died at a football match at
0:36.8	Hillsborough, one of the worst disasters in modern Britain. When it happened
0:42.0	30 years ago it was different. Some politicians, some parts of the press,
0:46.5	they seem to close ranks to blame the victims. There were stories in the papers about drunken ticketless Liverpool fans, about violence
0:56.1	among the fans. Years later an inquiry found that there was no evidence to support any of that,
1:01.1	but the damage was already done, and Liverpool lives with that to this day.
1:07.0	This week, the senior police officer in charge of policing the match at Hillsborough
1:11.0	was found not guilty of causing the deaths through his decisions on the day and that's
1:17.1	left the relatives reeling.
1:18.4	I'm really angry. I'm trying to be calm for the sake of these families have suffered so much.
1:24.6	And wondering whether anyone will ever be held accountable.
1:27.8	They've gone through out.
1:29.5	There's something about this that makes Hillsborough bigger than simply the disaster that changed British football,
1:37.0	and we're going to explore why with a few people.
1:40.0	First is Deanna Matthews. She's 25. She wasn't even born when her uncle Brian Matthews, who was 38, died at Hillsborough.
1:50.0	I never ever met my uncle Brian, but from what I've heard he was very very much like me
1:59.9	He was just larger than life always going going out of his way, to help other people, to be the best that he could be.
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