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BBC Radio 4 - Coming Out, Bankruptcy

Hannah looks back over the depression and guilt that accompanied her financial disaster.

A history of bankruptcy is not a rarity but it still carries a stigma. Hannah looks back over the depression and guilt that accompanied her financial difficulties after university.

Five programmes exploring the ways in which we reveal our true histories to the world.

5. Bankruptcy

Hannah, like many students, left university with a burden of debt in addition to her student loan. Unable to find a job in the field she had trained for, her debts escalated to the point where she had to consider bankruptcy. With her father and a friend who had also had to declare herself bankrupt she looks back over the depression and guilt which accompanied her financial disaster and is now able to draw some positive conclusions from it.

Producer Christine Hall.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Five programmes exploring the ways in which people reveal their true selves to the world.

Five programmes exploring the ways in which people reveal their true selves to the world

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