Street Life: Why Britain’s homeless need their stories told

The Bunker

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🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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There’s an unseen epidemic of people dying while homeless, and journalist MAEVE McLENAGHAN tells their stories in No Fixed Abode: Life and Death Among the UK's Forgotten Homeless, out this week. She tells Dorian Lynskey what she learned, how there was more to the 2010s explosion in rough sleeping than just austerity… and a radical solution to homelessness: give people places to live. “From attending the funerals of homeless people I discovered how loved these people were” “Dehumanisation drives the violence which homeless people experience” Presented by Dorian Lynskey. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
0:11.8	Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?
0:13.0	I loved going to college.
0:14.0	It's good you can retrain and do something.
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1:12.0	As the lockdown eased over the summer, we saw tents and sleeping bags return to Britain's streets.
1:17.2	Before the pandemic, at least 4,600 people were sleeping rough in the country and around 200,000 lived
1:21.8	in temporary accommodation. Those people don't just
1:24.2	fear COVID-19. Every year hundreds of homeless people slip through the supposed safety net
1:28.4	and die in ways that could have been prevented. Until recently those deaths were not even
1:32.3	counted.
1:33.0	My guest today is Maid McLennahan, a celebrated journalist at the Bureau of
1:36.8	Investigative Journalism who's been shortlisted for multiple All-L prizes and Amnesty International
1:40.9	awards and also hosts the podcast The Tip Off.
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