How should we react to Caroline Flack’s death?

Beyond Today

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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Since Caroline Flack’s death by suicide last weekend, many people have been trying to make sense of it. Yesterday her family released a previously unpublished Instagram post written by Caroline Flack detailing her ‘shame’ and ‘embarrassment’ at the truth being taken out of her hands and used, she wrote, as ‘entertainment’. Some have pointed the finger at the tabloids for her fragile mental state. Others are blaming a ‘toxic’ social media culture. In this episode, we explore this idea with entertainment journalist Scott Bryan. We also speak to writers Sophie Wilkinson and Lauren O’Neill about the world of celebrity journalism. If you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this programme you can find help on the BBC Action line here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4WLs5NlwrySXJR2n8Snszdg/emotional-distress-information-and-support Presenter: Matthew Price Producers: Lucy Hancock and Alicia Burrell Mixed by Emma Crowe Clips: Channel 4, Flicker Productions and ITV Studios, BBC archive.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:05.0	Before we start, we're about to have a discussion that covers mental health and suicide.
0:10.0	So you might prefer not to listen.
0:13.0	And in case it's useful, we have put a link in the episode description to the BBC Action
0:17.8	line where you can find all sorts of helpful resources.
0:21.6	Hello, I'm Matthew Price.
0:25.0	This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4,
0:28.0	where we ask one big question about one big story. Today how should we react to Caroline Flack's gorgeous. But you know we have a professional working relationship.
0:53.8	Yeah, yeah. We have to work together. So yeah.
0:55.9	No, not saying that either.
0:57.9	Well, when you touch goals, or no.
0:59.4	There are some people that you just connect with, even if you've never met them. Caroline Flack
1:05.0	was one of those people. Yeah I am quite romantic. I mean I love the idea of
1:08.8	love as well and I love falling in love. The falling in love bit is quite addictive isn't it that first that first romantic feeling
1:16.4	It's weird if you just stop to think about it how a TV star someone that we watch on a screen, can become so much a part of our lives.
1:27.6	You start to want to know about them, what they're like, where they hang out, who their
1:31.4	friends are.
1:33.0	And as we start to want to know more and more,
1:36.0	they stop being just a person.
1:38.0	They become a commodity,
1:40.0	gossip about them, photos of them. It all starts to generate money.
1:45.0	The star makes the money, so do the papers, the websites, the social sites that publish the stories.
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