Summary
This week Cariad talks to improviser and actor Sam Irving (Spontaneous Sherlock & Spontaneous Potter) about his experience of the Dunblane School massacre. Sam was a pupil at the Dunblane Primary school when the massacre occurred in 1996. As ever we talk grief, processing trauma after many years + Bob Dylan.
Here is the list of organisations that Sam mentions in the show:
- Change The Ref - empowering young people to enact societal change, particularly around gun regulation and the NRA. Founded by the parents of one of the Parkland victims.
- Newtown Action Alliance - founded by Newtown residents after the Sandy Hook massacre. Pushing for legislative and cultural change to reduce gun violence.
https://www.newtownactionalliance.org/
- March For Our Lives - a student-led volunteer group campaigning for an end to gun violence
- Gun Control Network - UK-based non-profit founded after the Dunblane massacre, pushing for further gun control measures in the UK.
http://gun-control-network.org/gun-control-network
You can follow Sam's improv troupe @thespontplayers on Twitter or for more info head to:
https://www.thespontaneousplayers.com/
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Griefcast is hosted by Cariad Lloyd, edited by Kate Holland, recorded at Whistledown Studios (or Cariad's living room in lockdown), artwork is by Jayde Perkin and the music is provided by The Glue Ensemble. And remember, you are not alone.
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| 0:19.0 | You're listening to Griefcast with me, Carrie Adloyd. |
| 0:24.0 | Griefcast is a place to talk, share and laugh about the peculiar human process of death. |
| 0:29.0 | Of death and grief. |
| 0:31.0 | Each week I talk to a different person about their experiences of grief and death, |
| 0:36.0 | as we remember someone that they have lost along the way. |
| 0:39.0 | Whether it was a long time ago or you've just joined the club. |
| 0:43.0 | Welcome to Griefcast. |
| 0:54.0 | Hey, Greasters. |
| 0:55.0 | I hope you're having an OK week. |
| 0:57.0 | Where have you all? |
| 0:58.0 | Listening to it at the moment, whether it's warm and sunny where you are or you're facing the cold November, |
| 1:03.0 | which is currently starting to creep in to England at the moment. |
| 1:07.0 | Thank you so much for all the messages I've had recently. |
| 1:10.0 | I had a lot of messages, especially of Christopher's episode, a couple of weeks ago, |
| 1:15.0 | if you haven't listened to it yet, I recommend you do, because I think it might be in one of the top. |
| 1:20.0 | It's in the top three of the week, and I've had a lot of people say it to me, |
| 1:23.0 | and it is a really beautiful and moving episode. |
| 1:25.0 | So thank you so much. |
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