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The Good Conductor

Factual: Health & Wellbeing

29/12/2010

BBC Radio 4 - The Good Conductor

The writer Bernard Hare tells a moving tale of the power of human compassion.

The author and former social worker Bernard Hare tells a moving tale of the power of human compassion, which contains a lesson he tries to pass on to everyone he meets.

In this special talk, the author and former social worker Bernard Hare tells of the train conductor he met on a journey home when he was twenty three. He was desperate to get home to see his mother in hospital but was due to miss the connecting train home. The conductor broke the rules and ensured that Bernard made his connection - and on the way passed on a valuable motto which Bernard has adopted in his own life. 
Bernard Hae was born in Leeds in 1958 to a mining family. He became a social worker, but was disillusioned by the system after the miners' strike. He is now an author and describes himself as an 'unofficial freelance social worker' in his spare time, when he regularly passes on the conductor's message. 
Producer: Charlotte Pritchard.

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