Father's Day Special
6/21/20261 hr
This Father's Day special, Carl Chinn and some of our guests over the passed year share the stories of the fathers and grandfathers who made them. From a working class bookmaker who played football on the rec and ran the school team because no teacher would, to a Jamaican-Irish poet whose dad quoted Shakespeare and Kipling off the cuff, from a German Jewish refugee who arrived aged 13 on the Kindertransport to a boxing coach who spent nearly four decades giving everything to lads from deprived Birmingham neighbourhoods and never charged a single one, these are the men who stayed, who worked, and who shaped the people around them in ways still being felt.
This is an episode about presence and absence, inheritance and identity.
Trigger warning: This episode contains discussion of the Holocaust, the Kindertransport, family bereavement and Partition violence. Please do take care whilst listening or skip this episode if this could be distressing for you.
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Carl Chinn· Host1:06
Hello there, I'm Carl Chim, and welcome to another episode of Our Lives, Our Stories, where we delve deeply into uncovering the lives and the stories of the people who I'm chatting with. We've also uncovered parts of my life and my story. And in this episode, we're going to be uncovering