Should we talk more about grief?
Beyond Today
BBC
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Beyond Today producer Georgia Coan’s younger brother Elliot died at the age of 16 after an accident. Georgia was 19 at the time. Five years on they are still coming to terms with what happened. Christmas is always a difficult time of the year for the bereaved, but Georgia’s mum Michaela says her New Years resolution is to talk more and celebrate Elliot’s life. Georgia is coming to terms with her life without Elliot with the help of new friends she made at a sibling bereavement retreat and is feeling optimistic about next year. This is her story.
Mixed by Weidong Lin, additional mixing by Nicolas Raufast Producers: Georgia Coan, Duncan Barber, Philly Beaumont Editor: John Shields
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, I'm Matthew Price. |
| 0:09.2 | This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4, where we ask one big question about one big story. |
| 0:14.3 | Today, should we talk more about grief? |
| 0:25.0 | Everyone's got a story to tell, haven't they? |
| 0:31.0 | Everyone's got a story to tell, haven't they? There's always something you find out about |
| 0:35.8 | them a while after first meeting them that surprises you. And that's where we start today, |
| 0:40.8 | with Georgia Cone, one of the great journalists on our team. |
| 0:44.0 | I first met her in the summer when we were planning beyond today before we |
| 0:48.0 | launched months before any of us knew the pain that Georgia was carrying. |
| 0:54.2 | It can be a difficult time of year if you've lost a loved one, |
| 0:57.4 | and we're going to hear a lot about difficult times. |
| 1:00.7 | But through Georgia's story, we'll also find out how she began to cope and who helped her. |
| 1:08.0 | Five years ago George's brother Elliot died. He was 16, she was 19. And to tell his story and hers, |
| 1:17.0 | Georgia wanted to take me to Dunstable where she grew up. This is basically the park that we used to go to when we were kids, So me and my rubber Elliot and all of our friends, |
| 1:35.5 | so we used to spend all last summer evenings here. And I'm going to tell you a funny little |
| 1:41.0 | story that Elliot probably would have killed me for telling you. |
| 1:44.7 | So my brother's best friend Joel, he actually still lives like just across the road there. |
| 1:50.4 | They used to come here all the time here in Elliot and I think it must have been |
| 1:56.0 | autumn because there was loads and loads of leaves. They found this dirty magazine |
| 2:01.1 | in the park. I don't know where they found it but they just saw it |
| 2:05.2 | lying somewhere and instead of taking it home because they knew that obviously like |
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