Losing Control: Episode 19
UK True Crime Podcast
UK True Crime Podcast
4.3 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2017
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In this weeks episode of the UK True Crime Weekly Podcast, we look at a series of events culminating in a desperate woman threatening to jump from the cliff edge at Beachy Head, a notorious suicide spot.
References: https://www.justiceforwomen.org.uk http://mensrights.com.au http://www.intmensorg.info/dv7.htm https://www.theguardian.com http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news http://www.bbc.co.uk http://www.dailymail.co.uk Cliffs of Despair: A Journey to Suicide's Edge – Tom Hunt
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 19 of the UK True Crime Weekly podcast. I'm Adam. |
| 0:05.8 | Please head to our website at UKTrueCrum.com for my latest blog about the youth justice system in the UK |
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| 0:24.8 | but preferably one of the five star variety. Be good. |
| 0:28.4 | This week we go back to August 2010 when Eminem featuring Rihanna top the US charts with |
| 0:35.6 | Love the Way You Lie whereas the number one slot in the UK was Club Can't Handle Me by flow rider |
| 0:42.4 | featuring David Greta. Beachy Head is a chalk headland in Sussex close to the resort town of Eastbourne. |
| 0:50.0 | It's around 75 miles south of London. The cliffs at Beachy Head is the highest chalk sea |
| 0:55.3 | cliff in Britain rising over 530 feet above sea level. The peak allows superb views of the south |
| 1:03.0 | coast from Dungeon S in the east right through to Chelsea Bill in the West. It's a magnificent spot. |
| 1:10.3 | Beachy Head was the setting for the Legend Bowies classic video ashes to ashes. By the way |
| 1:16.4 | the Genoa Boy George was in that and it's here that 80s legends de Cure recorded their videos |
| 1:22.4 | for close to me and just like heaven. In the 2005 film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
| 1:28.9 | Beachy Head was used as the hosting grounds for the 1994 quidit twirl cup and then back in 1979 |
| 1:35.9 | the final scene of Quadrothenia has filled annuals driving the scooter off the top of Beachy Head. |
| 1:41.3 | Have you seen that film? Sadly this beautiful spot is also known for suicide with approximately |
| 1:47.9 | 20 people a year choosing to end their lives at Beachy Head. Along with the Agohara forest |
| 1:55.0 | that amounted fugee in Japan and the Golden Gate Bridge in California Beachy Head is one of the |
| 2:00.6 | most popular spots for suicide in the world. If you look beyond the headlines there's some heart |
| 2:06.8 | wrenching stories of people have chosen to end their lives at this place. In his book telling the |
| 2:13.3 | stories of people who have taken their own lives here Tom Hunt tells us about Elizabeth Kentish, |
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