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Uncanny

S1. Case 7: The Angel in the Bathroom

Uncanny

BBC

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Danny Robins talks to Tom, an NHS mental health nurse working with troubled young people. Tom starts to work with Yousuf, a teenage boy from a devoutly Muslim background. His family believe he is possessed by a djinn – an evil spirit, but Tom believes Yousuf is having a crisis of faith which has led him to the brink of suicide. When Yousuf does tries to take his own life, he is rescued in seemingly impossible circumstances. Ardent atheist and sceptic Tom is forced to explore the possibility that he has witnessed something he cannot explain. But is it really divine intervention? Written and presented by Danny Robins Editor and Sound Designer: Charlie Brandon-King Music: Evelyn Sykes Theme Music by Lanterns on the Lake Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4

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0:00.0

Hey, let me ask you, sir.

0:03.8

Have you heard George's podcast?

0:06.1

Me and Ben Brick are back with a blast.

0:08.1

This time with stories from Africa's past, not too distant, unsolved mysteries, unsung

0:13.8

heroes from untold histories.

0:15.8

I'm trying to make sense of the present day, join me on this journey by pressing play.

0:23.8

Have you heard George's podcast, Chapter 4?

0:27.2

I'm just walking down the street next to where I live in Wolfenstowice, London.

0:45.7

There's a mosque just next to me and there's people leaving Friday prayers.

0:50.8

So, I've always been really intrigued by the idea of belief.

0:56.8

I grew up in an entirely atheist household and I think I was fascinated by the idea that

1:01.3

there was something more out there, some kind of magic that I was missing out on.

1:06.6

Some people would have found God, I found ghosts and I would say that all of these investigations

1:11.7

I undertake and me grown up now, still trying to find that magic.

1:17.0

This episode, I think we might have found it.

1:20.7

As you know, this series is about strange encounters that change people's lives.

1:26.2

This particular case is about an encounter that saves somebody's life.

1:32.0

How it happens is seemingly utterly categorically impossible and yet it happened.

1:40.0

It's a mystery deep and pure that is sat in the head of one man for over a decade.

1:45.8

It takes place in a small town in the south of England in 2008.

1:51.7

So let's meet our witness.

1:54.0

My name is Tom. I'm a mental health support worker.

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