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Talking about post-mortems
Season 3, Ep. 1
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In Episode 1 of Series 3 Mandy and Yvonne talk to Elaine Gordon, who campaigned with Lucy Harrison to abolish the second post-mortem after her sister died. The second post-mortem was introduced as a temporary measure subject to a review which never happened and delayed Elaine's family's ability to bury her sister.
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5. Talking to campaigner Lucy Harrison
38:31||Season 3, Ep. 5Yvonne and Mandy talk to Lucy Harrison, whose brother was killed and who has been campaigning on road safety issues including hit and run ever since. Lucy is now setting up the organisation Road to Change to help those affected by road injury and death.
4. Talking to campaigner Abi Toghill
38:56||Season 3, Ep. 4Yvonne and Mandy talk to Abi Toghill, founder of Lantern Connect, a new survivor‑led, trauma‑informed online community for anyone bereaved in a road crash. To support her work go to her Gofundme page.
3. Talking to funeral directors
37:03||Season 3, Ep. 3Mandy and Yvonne talk to John Adams, former President of the National Association of Funeral Directors, who is known for his advocacy in bereavement education, which is on the curriculum in UK schools from this September. John is also a funeral industry adviser to Child Bereavement UK, an ambassador of The Good Grief Trust and podcast host of Death: A Changing Industry.
2. Talking to author Cathy Rentzenbrink
25:03||Season 3, Ep. 2In this episode Mandy talks to best-selling author Cathy Rentzenbrink about her books on grief, in particular The Last Act of Love where she recounts what happened to her brother Matty and the eight years he spent in a state of severe neurological impairment before life support was turned off.
8. Talking to a charity that helps parents
34:51||Season 2, Ep. 8Mandy and Yvonne talk to Ange Tyler, founder of the ELY Memorial Fund, set up in memory of her daughter Emma Louise Young to help parents who have lost their son or daughter in a road traffic collision and who need financial help and support.
7. Talking about family liaison officers
35:28||Season 2, Ep. 7In this episode, Mandy and Yvonne talk to Ray Williams, who has worked for many years on road safety education, investigating road deaths as a police officer and training family liaison officers. He is now working with law firm Slater & Gordon as Police Relationship Manager. They discuss training of family liaison officers and how they interact with families.
Talking to Jack's friends
31:04|In this episode we talk to Jack's friends about who he was to them, the shock of losing him, the support they got and gave each other and how they think about life now.
Talking to work colleagues
28:18|Mandy and Yvonne speak to Karen MacGregor, a journalist who works with Mandy who also lost her daughter Donna to road death. Karen reached out to Mandy when her daughter died. The three discuss support, return to work, helping others and more.