OUT NOW: Maeve's book - No Fixed Abode - in paperback
The Tip Off
The Tip Off
4.7 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2021
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Creator and host of The Tip Off, Maeve McClenaghan has written a book, and it is now out in paperback.
No Fixed Abode: Life and Death Among the UK’s Forgotten Homeless tells highly personal, human and sometimes surprisingly uplifting stories of real people struggling in a crumbling system. The book goes behind the scenes of the dramatic, winding investigation that revealed - for the first time - how and when people were dying homeless in one of the richest countries in the world.
This paperback edition includes a new preface covering the impact of Covid-19.
Here’s some of the nice things people have said about it:
“A conscience-pricking look at the reality of life on Britain’s streets . . . No Fixed Abode couldn’t be more illuminating, timely and urgent.” - Sunday Times
“Urgent, gripping and devastating” - the Secret Barrister
“A campaigning book of the very highest order” - Irish Times
‘A meticulous investigation exposes the shameful truths surrounding the UK’s homeless population . . . moving and revealing” - Guardian
Available here and in all good bookshops: https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Maeve-McClenaghan/No-Fixed-Abode--Life-and-Death-Among-the-UKs-Forgotten-Homeless/25638386
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| 0:00.0 | On the tip-off, we delve into a load of fascinating investigations by some great journalists, |
| 0:06.9 | but I wanted to take a minute to tell you about one of mine. I have written a book, |
| 0:12.0 | No Fixed Abode, which charts an investigation that came to consume my life. |
| 0:17.8 | Back in the winter of late 2017, I spotted a story about a man who had died homeless, just metres from the house he had lived in for decades. That got me thinking. I had what I thought was a simple question. How many people were dying homeless in the UK? But it turned out to be far from simple. |
| 0:40.1 | For the next two years, I travelled the length and breadth of the country, trying to find answers. |
| 0:45.8 | My book, No Fixed Abode, tells that story. |
| 0:50.2 | SBA had been waiting to happen for five years. |
| 0:54.0 | Right. Due to alcohol, not because of the way... It's so waiting to happen for five years. Right. |
| 0:55.0 | Due to alcohol, not because of the way... |
| 0:57.0 | There's so much stigma attached with this, |
| 0:59.0 | but it could happen to end. |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:02.0 | Ian was the February... |
| 1:03.0 | He looked very different. |
| 1:04.0 | When I first saw his Facebook page, he looked very different to how I knew him. |
| 1:08.0 | So he was, I mean, the pictures that you've seen, |
| 1:11.2 | he was a bearded. |
| 1:13.1 | He's as if we're doing what we can. |
| 1:15.5 | But there's just this extraordinary lack of any capacity of the system. |
| 1:21.4 | So I put him down as unknown Lannin Street. |
| 1:24.2 | Is that still good? |
| 1:24.9 | That guy. |
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