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One to One: Lucy Mangan on Responsibility

Lucy Mangan on Responsibility

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Lucy Mangan avoids responsibility. Why? Today she talks to the Reverend Claire Herbert.

Interview series. Lucy Mangan feels she avoids responsibility whenever she can. She talks to Reverend Claire Herbert about a life of helping others.

Lucy Mangan avoids responsibility wherever possible. She's got cats instead of dogs because she can't face a needy pet; she only has one child 'and that's more than enough.' But she's always been fascinated by those who run towards responsibility rather than away from it. Today she talks to Reverend Claire Herbert about a life dedicated to helping others. One of the first women priests to be ordained, Claire was working as a rector at St Anne's church in Soho when the Admiral Duncan bomb exploded. But she admits that being there for others has not been an easy road - in her 30s she took some time out from full-time church work to become a social worker and learn to be young 'perhaps for the first time'; she has realized that she needs to learn to play, and now gives herself permission sometimes to be 'naughty and horrible.'.

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