Summary
Georgia Gabriel-Hooper is now 20, she works for a tractor dealership and enjoys bumbling around the countryside. But as a child she was witness to a terrible event: her mother, Cheryl, was murdered in a domestic homicide. Understandably that day had a profound impact on Georgia who’s since shown extraordinary courage and determination to use her personal testimony to raise awareness and create change around domestic abuse.
If you, or someone you know, has been affected by domestic abuse or violence, you can find details of support available on the BBC Action Line at bbc.co.uk/actionline. If you are in immediate danger, you should dial 999.
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| 0:00.0 | Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I want to tell you why I love podcasting. |
| 0:04.7 | Hi, my name's Tommy Dixon, and I make podcasts for the BBC. |
| 0:08.4 | I'm a big fan of stories, always loved a good book. |
| 0:11.4 | But when I started commuting for my first job, I discovered podcasts. |
| 0:15.4 | I was blown away by how a creative idea and the right mixture of sounds could take you into |
| 0:19.2 | a whole new world full of incredible stories. You know, the type that make you go, wow. And that kind of inspired me to |
| 0:25.2 | give it a go myself, which to cut a long story short led to a BBC training scheme and a whole |
| 0:30.0 | new career giving other people that exact same feeling. So if you want to hear amazing stories |
| 0:34.2 | that make you go wow like I did, they're just a tap or click away on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:40.7 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:44.8 | Hello and welcome. This series hears from some incredible people whose lives have been |
| 0:49.9 | upended and sometimes those stories, their experiences, are really tough. Today we hear from a young |
| 0:56.8 | woman, only 20, who witnessed terrible things as a child. This interview discusses the impact |
| 1:03.4 | of domestic abuse and as such it might be a difficult listen and it'll take courage for our |
| 1:10.0 | guests to talk about it but her voice and what |
| 1:12.3 | she has to say is valuable and important her name's georgia and she's here morning good morning |
| 1:19.3 | thank you for having me oh it's lovely to see you thanks for coming i know there are parts of your life |
| 1:24.1 | that will be tough to talk about just to let you know that we can pause at any |
| 1:28.3 | point or stop. But tell us first about your early life. You were born in Shropshire, an only child. |
| 1:36.8 | What do you remember of those early years? Oh, so my parents got divorced when I was two. So from being quite young, I was very much with my mum. |
| 1:48.0 | She was always one of those people that sort of couldn't say no. |
| 1:52.5 | If you said, oh, could you do this for me? |
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