Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Tough Crowd

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BBC

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4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever considered becoming a foster carer?

Multi award-winning comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean hadn’t - until a chance radio advert changed everything.

In this heartfelt and inspiring half-hour special, recorded in front of a live audience, Kiri shares the unexpected and deeply personal journey that led her to become a Local Authority foster carer on the Welsh island of Ynys Môn. With her signature wit and warmth, Kiri lifts the lid on the system and offers a moving, candid, and funny account of what it truly means to open your home - and your heart - to a child in need.

First broadcast during Foster Care Fortnight in the UK, this programme shines a timely spotlight on the extraordinary power of ordinary people to make a difference.

Written and performed by Kiri Pritchard-McLean Producer: Tashi Radha Executive Producer : Suzy Grant Sound Engineers: Jerry Peal & Jon Last Production Manager: Sarah Sharpe

A Listen production for Radio 4

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Giovanna Fletcher and I am a runner, which feels odd as I still find getting
0:07.1	out the door quite a challenge, but I'd love to help you become a runner too. My new Coucher 5K
0:12.9	podcast from BBC Sounds has inspirational guests like Lindsay Burrow, Joe Wiley and Charlie Marlow.
0:18.4	I'm really trying to reframe my brain.
0:21.2	This is my time and I get to do this.
0:23.7	And hopefully I can motivate you to go from Couch to 5K.
0:27.6	You never really regret a run.
0:29.3	Might do at the time.
0:31.3	The Couch to 5K podcast.
0:33.6	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:36.1	BBC Sounds.
0:39.6	Music, radio, podcasts Oh,
0:41.4	Oh, thank you.
0:49.9	Hello, Noswifah and Kroisopab.
0:52.3	Good evening.
0:52.9	Welcome, everybody here at the Wellman Social Club in Shaggivny!
0:58.8	I'm Kirjitjit MacLean. I'm a stand-up comedian. I'm a local girl. So five years ago,
1:03.4	I moved back here to Anis Mourg, where I grew up. And this has got me thinking about family.
1:08.6	I mean, of course, moving back to Wales as, that is what Welsh girls do
1:12.2	when they want to start a family. We move back to Wales. We're like salmon in that respect.
1:19.6	You move back to Wales, you marry the least threatening man, you know. Pop out some kids, grow into
1:24.1	your leggings. That's the Welsh way. Do you know what? For a really long time,
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