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Hello, it's a mole here and welcome.

Maybe welcome back to Radical, which I think you may know by now,

are conversations about the deep global trends of the changing our world,

and a sort of safe space to encounter and challenge the really radical ideas

that we need, that you need to win the future. And we try and do it.

We have some of the most interesting, some of the most influential pioneers and thinkers and

people, basically, that are around today. And my goodness, we've got someone today who has got

some radical ideas. She's extraordinary. But before I tell you about her, let me tell you about

the issue that she addresses. It's homelessness. And homelessness in Britain is rising very, very rapidly. It declined for many, many years

around the turn of the millennium. And now, the number of English households living in temporary

accommodation has more than doubled between 2010 and 2023. That is the highest figure since

records began. And one of the things that is so dist That is the highest figure since records began.

And one of the things that is so distressing is the sharp rise in homelessness amongst young people.

This is often connected to the housing crisis, of course.

Someone who's thought long and hard about this, but someone who's also actually lived it, she's been there, is Sabrina Cohen-Hatton.

I'll leave her to explain exactly what happened, but the bit that you need to know for now is that

she slept rough, she was homeless from around the age of 15, and she spent a long time living

and sleeping on the streets. She is now, however, written through an extraordinary case of meritocracy,

you might say, or social mobility. She's now become one of Britain's most senior firefighters.

She advises Prince William on homelessness. And as you're going to hear, she's got some really

positive, constructive solutions or ideas for how to fix the very problems that she spent

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