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Woman's Hour

Love-Bombed a new BBC Sounds Podcast. Can writing a memoir ruin your life? Who are you at work? Knife Crime

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Coleen Greenwood spent almost two and a half years in a relationship with a man she knew as James Scott. He said he was a divorced firefighter who wanted to marry and go into business with her - but it was all based on a lie. Her story is the subject of a new BBC podcast series Love-Bombed with Vicki Pattison. Ahead of its launch we speak to Coleen about the impact the relationship had on her; and to DC Chris Bentham, who investigated the case. A boy and girl, both aged 15, have been arrested on suspicion of murder following the fatal stabbing of 16-year-old Brianna Ghey at a park in Warrington. This follows on from an incident last Monday, where a teenage girl was injured in what police have described as a "serious racially aggravated assault". Recent statistics from the Ministry of Justice show that there were 3,500 proven knife and offensive weapon offences committed by children between 2020 and 2021. We hear the latest from BBC's Rowan Bridge in Warrington and from Zoe Cooke, a campaigner against knife crime whose son Byron was stabbed to death in 2021. Do writers of memoirs focusing on traumatic events need protection? Does the publishing industry need to come up with guidelines to protect writers? Terri White, author of the memoir Coming Undone and Kit de Waal author of Without Warning & Only Sometimes: Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood discuss. Plus who are you at work? Workplace consultant Gabriella Braun explain how psychoanalysis can reveal some hidden truths behind our behaviour. From interactions with your boss triggering feelings about your parents, to colleagues setting off old issues of sibling rivalries, Presenter Nuala McGovern Producer Beverley Purcell

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.0

Hello, this is Nulem O'Goveren and you're listening to the Woman's Hour podcast.

0:10.0

Good morning, I hope you've had a good weekend.

0:12.4

Welcome to Woman's Hour and how do you feel?

0:15.1

I've been back in work this Monday morning.

0:17.5

Bright and breezy, anxious, bored, enthusiastic.

0:22.8

And do you express those emotions in your workplace?

0:25.7

Or maybe you think you have a work you and a non-work you?

0:29.5

Well, my guest today, Gabriella Brown would say they are one and the same.

0:34.2

We bring our hopes, our fears, our personalities, our histories with us to work each day.

0:39.4

What does that mean?

0:40.9

We do know that one and three women are looking to downshift their careers or leave the

0:44.6

workforce entirely.

0:46.4

So can examining it through a psychoanalytical lens help them thrive and stay?

0:52.1

Those questions are coming up, our text number 84844.

0:55.8

Maybe you have a question for Gabriella.

0:58.2

Now something else we want to look at, memoirs.

1:00.3

You don't have to look too far to see them on the bestseller list.

1:04.0

Spare by Prince Harry is one that got the most ink of late.

1:07.3

I think we can all agree on that.

1:08.8

But Terry White and Kid DeVarre, they're both going to be with us.

1:12.3

They wrote memoirs about their tumultuous lives.

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