Dangerous Memories: Episode 3 - Do not say my name

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Tortoise Media

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

After Huey cycled off into the distance, her mother had no idea what caused her to leave or why. She was in the dark about the extraordinary things Huey had come to believe about her own family. So she finds someone who can help track her down.

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Written and reported by: Grace Hughes-Hallett & Gary Marshall

Producer: Gary Marshall

Additional reporting and production: Imogen Harper

Sound design and original composition: Tom Kinsella

Theme music: Far Gone (Don’t Leave) by Pictish Trail

Podcast artwork: Lola Williams

Commissioning editor: Basia Cummings

Executive producer: Ceri Thomas

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0:00.0	Tortoise.
0:18.0	Just a warning before we start. This episode contains references to child abuse and to sexual assault.
0:29.7	After she'd bicycled away and I didn't know where she'd bicycle to. So you know I was in absolute, I was in a terrible state. I mean really, really bad just worrying and worrying. And did you have any idea where she was or any means of finding out where she was?
0:35.0	I, no, no, no, she never came back.
0:41.0	When Huey's mom Sarah watched her daughter disappear into the distance, she had no idea what had led her to leave.
0:50.0	What Sarah remembers about the confrontation is how the look on Huey's face changed.
0:57.0	Initially, when she saw Sarah, she seemed surprised, but then her eyes glazed over like a zombie Sarah said and
1:06.7	then she left with no explanation what Sarah didn't know then was that under the guidance of Anne Craig
1:16.2	Huy had decided to turn her back on not just her family, but her whole world. By this point she was two years in to her sessions with Anne. She
1:30.0	moved out of the pub and was living alone.
1:34.4	It was just her and her cat sleeping on the floor
1:37.8	of a single room above a car wash.
1:41.5	She'd cut ties with her family and she'd stop speaking to all her friends.
1:46.0	Huey was now totally isolated and totally consumed by her work with Anne.
1:55.0	In fact, she was so consumed that she had no space for a full-time job.
2:00.0	She was short of money, hungry and cold.
2:05.0	At one point she reached out to a homeless shelter for living support.
2:10.0	Of course there were so many people Huey knew who had plenty of money and
2:16.3	accommodation to spare as well but accepting gifts or financial support from
2:21.3	the people she cut ties with was discouraged. It would
2:24.8	interfere with her journey to healing. I couldn't afford heating in my house. I
2:29.5	couldn't if the gas bottle ran out I'd be cold in the middle of the winter.
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