Summary
Three people from three different eras reveal what it's like to live with multiple personalities, or Dissociative Identity Disorder.
A retired librarian who lived through the disorder's most controversial time and has found peace as several parts; an early YouTuber who fought stigma about DID and now lives as one person; and a young TikToker navigating life as a 'system'.
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Presenter/producer: Lucy Proctor Researcher: Anna Harris Mixed by: James Beard
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.0 | BBC Sounds, BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:40.0 | Welcome to Seriously from BBC Radio 4. I'm Vanessa Kasule. This podcast finds the world's best |
| 0:47.0 | audio documentaries and puts them all in one place. |
| 0:51.0 | Okay, why don't you introduce yourself? Give us your age as well. |
| 0:55.0 | I start most interviews like this. |
| 0:59.0 | What's your name? Who are you? |
| 1:02.0 | My name is Danu and I'm 20. |
| 1:05.0 | For Danny, who are you is a complex question. |
| 1:10.0 | Because Danny is just one of more than 200 personalities or altars who inhabit the small green-eyed figure sitting next to me. |
| 1:20.5 | I believe that my brain has picked out the altar that they believe, well that it believes |
| 1:27.4 | is most capable of handling this right now and in a way I feel honoured. But Danny, it seems, was just here to organise logistics and deal with meeting me. |
| 1:39.0 | Ten minutes into the recording, he starts to feel someone else hoping to get some air time. |
| 1:45.6 | Sorry my brain is not wagging. |
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