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How Do You Cope? …with Elis and John

S1 Poorna Bell: ‘I was never angry at him’

How Do You Cope? …with Elis and John

BBC

Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Journalist Poorna Bell talks to Elis James and John Robins about how she coped with the grief of losing her husband to suicide in 2015.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan

0:05.2

I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy

0:10.2

podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really.

0:13.0

Comedy is a fantastic joyous thing to do because really you're making people laugh,

0:18.0

making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things.

0:22.0

But you know I also know that comedy is really

0:24.4

subjective and everyone has different tastes so we've got a huge range of comedy on offer

0:29.6

from satire to silly shocking to soothing profound to just general pratting about. So if you

0:36.2

fancy a laugh, find your next comedy at BBC Sounds.

0:41.6

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:44.8

BBC Five Live.

0:46.7

How Do You C. James and John Robbins.

0:50.9

Hello everyone and welcome to How do you cope with Allison John.

0:54.0

Before we start as usual just to warn you that there's I'd say moderate swearing in this one, would you?

1:01.0

Yeah, I would say there's a fair amount of moderate swearing.

1:04.0

It's a championship level.

1:05.0

None of the big two.

1:06.0

No. There's no Man City and Arsenal or Man City in Liverpool swearing.

1:10.0

No, but it's certainly Sheffield United in that.

1:12.0

And Bristol City, I'd say.

1:14.6

So enter with caution if you're not an effer or a jeffer.

1:18.1

And because of the nature of these conversations,

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