Changes Focus: Changemakers - Rose Ayling-Ellis, Baroness Kidron, Nigel Bromage, Lady Unchained

Changes with Annie Macmanus

Annie Macmanus

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to a new series of Changes Focus where we focus on a specific area of change and hear multiple perspectives from some of our incredible guests. In this episode the focus is on Changemakers - people who are working hard to drive meaningful, positive change in the world.

In this powerful episode, Annie revisits her conversation with poet and advocate for prison reform Lady Unchained. She talks about her own experience within the criminal justice system and how this led her to work with other ex offenders. We hear from Baroness Beeban Kidron - documentary filmmaker turned member of the House of Lords - who talks about her tireless efforts to change and update the laws around child safety online. Ex right wing group leader Nigel Bromage shares his story of life after leaving the far right and how this inspired him to help others to do the same. And finally we’ve got actor Rose Ayling Ellis, who’s memorable appearance on Strictly Come Dancing in 2021 paid tribute to the deaf community and was responsible for a huge rise of interest in British Sign Language. Rose talks to us about how important being a part of this community is for her.

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0:00.0	That moment that I left my law career I kind of just jumped.
0:04.0	The windows are glued with sticky tape so if there is an explosion the splinters don't kill us.
0:10.0	It's so so amazing to see so many Irish writers do so well internationally.
0:13.7	That's amazing! That is the best thing that has ever happened to me in an interview.
0:19.2	I'm Rau Sheen Engel from the Irish Times Women's Podcast.
0:22.8	Subscribe to us now for an unmissible mix of life, laughter, feminism, culture, health, sex and
0:29.3	more every Thursday.
0:46.6	Hello and welcome to Change's Focus. It's Annie here. This is a brand new series of Change's Focus episodes for you where we're going to zoom in on a specific theme
0:50.9	and we visit some of our favorite moments from across the
0:53.7	podcast so this podcast is about the changes that happen to us but it's also about
0:59.2	the changes that we make so today we're focusing on change makers, the people who are driving significant
1:06.6	change in their world. You're going to hear from three of our very inspiring guests. Baroness Beeban Kidran, a tireless advocate for children's
1:15.8	digital rights who made me want to quit my job and work with her. Former far-right extremist turned
1:21.6	anti-extremism campaigner Nigel Bromage, who we were completely floored by, and first up, a poet and advocate for prison reform and rehabilitation. Lady Unchained,
1:34.3	Lady Unchained, whose real name is Brenda, is from South London.
1:38.1	She was sent to prison for 11 months at the age of 20.
1:41.4	Now she is the founder and creative director of unchained poetry, an artistic
1:46.2	platform for those with lived experiences of the criminal justice system. She's trying to change the label and the perspective of ex-offenders through the art of storytelling.
1:57.0	I got tired of, um, waiting for change and I say that because in life when you're
2:08.5	always waiting for someone to save you you'll be waiting for a long time I had
2:11.8	to become the woman that people told me I can never become because I had been to jail. I had to become the artists that people said that I can never be because I'd been to jail. I also had to become that part of me that I'd lost the loving part, that part that had faith, hope, purpose.
2:30.0	Honestly, I think one change that I've created is the fact that people can see its offenders in a different like.
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