Learning to live with the voices in my head

Lives Less Ordinary

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Debra Lampshire started hearing voices aged five. Comforting at first, they soon took control.The voices became so visceral and intense that Debra had to spend 18 years in a psychiatric hospital. Then, a chance friendship with a car mechanic gave her the tools to restore her life, but she’d have to learn to coexist with the voices that once tormented her.

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Presenter: Mobeen Azhar Producer: Louise Morris

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0:00.0	On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.
0:06.9	It was an extraordinary news story.
0:09.1	The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,
0:13.7	mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.
0:18.0	One of the great mysteries in English criminal history.
0:20.7	We're still looking for Lucan.
0:22.1	It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime.
0:25.9	I'm Alex von Tundselman.
0:27.3	This is The Lucan Obsession.
0:29.2	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.6	One night I was in bed and I would have been, I think about five, I was upset about something.
0:40.3	And then I heard this woman's voice and a very maternal voice and she was saying,
0:47.3	it's all right, darling, I'll stay with you, I won't let the monsters get you.
0:52.3	And I fell to sit at the end of the bed.
0:57.0	But when I looked, there was no one there.
1:00.7	But I felt her weight at the end of the bed.
1:07.6	Monsters and the promise of protection.
1:11.4	That was the first disembodied voice that Deborah Lampshire remembers hearing,
1:16.5	tucked up in bed in Auckland, New Zealand.
1:20.1	It was soothing.
1:22.0	Kind of nice.
1:23.6	It made her feel better.
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