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Woman's Hour: Love-Bombed a new BBC Sounds Podcast.  Can writing a memoir ruin your life? Who are you at work? Knife Crime

Love-Bombed a new BBC Sounds Podcast.  Can writing a memoir ruin your life? Who are you at work? Knife Crime

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Love-Bombed a new BBC Sounds Podcast.  Can writing a memoir ruin your life? Who are you at work? Knife Crime

Love-Bombed a new BBC Podcast. Can Writing a Memoir Ruin your life? Who are you at work ?

Coleen Greenwood the woman at the centre of Love-Bombed a new BBC Podcast. Do writers of memoirs focusing on traumatic events need protection? Plus who are you at work?

Coleen Greenwood spent almost two and a half years in a relationship with a man she knew as James Scott. He said he was a divorced firefighter who wanted to marry and go into business with her - but it was all based on a lie.  Her story is the subject of a new BBC podcast series Love-Bombed with Vicki Pattison. Ahead of its launch we speak to Coleen about the impact the relationship had on her; and to DC Chris Bentham, who investigated the case.

A boy and girl, both aged 15, have been arrested on suspicion of murder following the fatal stabbing of 16-year-old Brianna Ghey at a park in Warrington.  This follows on from an incident last Monday, where a teenage girl was injured in what police have described as a "serious racially aggravated assault".   Recent statistics from the Ministry of Justice show that there were 3,500 proven knife and offensive weapon offences committed by children between 2020 and 2021.   We hear the latest from BBC's Rowan Bridge in Warrington and from Zoe Cooke, a campaigner against knife crime whose son Byron was stabbed to death in 2021. 

Do writers of memoirs focusing on traumatic events need protection?  Does the publishing industry need to come up with guidelines to protect writers? Terri White, author of the memoir Coming Undone and Kit de Waal author of Without Warning & Only Sometimes: Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood discuss.  

Plus who are you at work? Workplace consultant Gabriella Braun explain how psychoanalysis can reveal some hidden truths behind our behaviour. From interactions with your boss triggering feelings about your parents, to colleagues setting off old issues of sibling rivalries, 
Presenter Nuala McGovern
Producer  Beverley Purcell

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