Summary
One Monday morning Stephen is meeting with his boss in a crowded coffee shop. Minutes later he’s at the centre of a horrific and brutal crime scene — his life hanging in the balance. It’s left him deeply scarred but has also prompted him to press the reset button on his life, and forced a fresh start for his family. This is a story he hasn’t told before publicly but as he explains to Dr Sian Williams, he believes sharing it will help him and perhaps others too.
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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. |
| 0:40.8 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:45.1 | Hello, and welcome to the series where extraordinary people share moments in their lives which have transformed everything. |
| 0:52.6 | For today's guest, it happened in a split second in the most |
| 0:56.4 | innocuous of places. He'd been invited by his boss to a coffee shop for a chat. Within seconds, |
| 1:03.3 | he was at the centre of a horrific and brutal crime scene. His story has not been told in public |
| 1:10.0 | before, but he wanted to share it with us. |
| 1:13.1 | We're protecting him and his family by avoiding his real name. |
| 1:16.4 | So let's say hello to our guest. |
| 1:18.2 | We're calling him Stephen. |
| 1:19.6 | Hi, Stephen. |
| 1:20.6 | Hi, Sean. |
| 1:21.3 | Hi. |
| 1:22.2 | Now, your experience is not an easy one to talk about, especially on national radios. |
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