Betrayal | Foundling Ep 5
4/21/202630 min
Jess is shocked when she makes a new discovery about her birth mother.
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Reporter - Lucy Greenwell
Producer - Katie Gunning
Original theme music - Tom Kinsella
Sound design and additional music - Rowan Bishop
Podcast artwork - Blythe Walker Sibthorp
Narrative editor - Gary Marshall
Editor - Jasper Corbett
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First 90 secondsLucy Greenwell· Host0:00
[gentle music] Tortoise Investigates. [gentle music] I've been thinking so much about what went on inside those walls. You walk past the car park where I can only guess that Chloe parked up with her mum or her dad, left the car, crossed the road, walked in, pressed the buzzer, and then in they went. From the age of 18, this is where Chloe, Jess's half-sister, would come for her counseling sessions. It's a boxy, three-story NHS building, not far from the center of her local town. When Chloe first starts coming here, it isn't a great success. Chloe doesn't really click with the community mental health nurse she's been paired with. But after a year or so, she begins having sessions with a new counselor, one she really likes. Each time, for about an hour, she sits in a room inside this building and tells the woman everything. I should tell you now, by way of a warning, in November 2023, before we began reporting this story, Chloe died by suicide. She was 23 years old.
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