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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. https://changetheref.org/ - Newtown Action Alliance…
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Griefcast
Cariad Lloyd · Arts & Books · English
My goal right from the beginning was that I wanted it to be a podcast that, when it stopped, you didn’t feel worse,” says Cariad Lloyd, host of Griefcast, a weekly interview podcast where media personalities share stories about loved ones they've lost. “We’re all in this club that no one asked to jo
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S8 · E158 · 8 Dec 2021 · 43 min
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S8 · E157 · 30 Nov 2021 · 1 hr 10 min
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S8 · E156 · 24 Nov 2021 · 54 min
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S8 · E154 · 10 Nov 2021 · 1 hr 15 min
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S8 · E153 · 3 Nov 2021 · 1 hr 6 min
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S8 · E152 · 27 Oct 2021 · 1 hr 5 min
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