Summary
In 1975, Richard Dailey was the victim of a freak wave that swept him overboard from the vessel he was working on in the North Sea. His daughter Angie was just five years old - and the news of his death was one of her first memories. Although they were compensated financially, the impact of that loss was difficult to understand and over the years it caused tension between Angie and her mother. Angie inherited a treasured box of old letters and photographs from her father, but felt unable to open it.
Angie wrote in to Life Changing to tell Dr Sian Williams how a decision to mark his life, on the 50th anniversary of his death, helped her finally know her father and understand her part in his life.
Producer: Tom Alban
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett. For most of my career, I've been on live radio, and I love it. |
| 0:13.3 | But I've always wondered, what if we'd had more time? How much deeper does the story go? |
| 0:19.2 | I remember having this very sharp thought that what you do right now, this is it. |
| 0:24.3 | This defines your life. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm ready to talk and ready to listen. |
| 0:28.3 | I'm insulted by how little the medical community is ever bothered with this. |
| 0:33.9 | Ready to talk with me, Emma Barnard, is my new podcast. |
| 0:37.0 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:39.4 | You're about to listen to Life-changing. Episodes will be released weekly wherever you get your |
| 0:44.4 | podcasts. But if you're in the UK, you can listen to the latest episodes first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:52.2 | Hello, there are some key experiences in all our lives where we want a ceremony |
| 0:57.8 | to mark a celebration or a remembrance. We might use christening's, weddings and funerals to reflect |
| 1:04.7 | those life-changing moments like births, marriages and deaths. But a church service last November in Scotland was rather different. |
| 1:14.1 | It was attended by my guest today, Angie Weatherhead, and it was transformative. |
| 1:19.1 | But perhaps not in the way you might expect. |
| 1:22.3 | Angie, welcome to life-changing. |
| 1:24.2 | Hello. |
| 1:24.9 | Hi, thanks very much for coming in. |
| 1:27.2 | Before we get to that service in St. Nicholas Kirk in Aberdeen, we're going to go way back to the 1970s. |
| 1:34.7 | You're living with your mum, Gwen, and your dad, Rick, works away. |
| 1:39.2 | What was he doing? |
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