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Welcome to "Talking about Strokes", a podcast designed to provide comfort, friendship, and support for stroke survivors, their families, carers and friends. Hosted by Paul Quinn, who had two strokes in July and August 2023, its aim is to compliment other forms of peer to peer support by including, as guests, fellow stroke survivors, their friends, families and carers, plus from time to time stroke care professionals including doctors, therapists and other medical professionals. Hopefully we can produce shows that entertain, inform and provide evidence that whilst stroke does have huge ...

Fourteen-year-old Prue and her sister Grace have been educated at home by their controlling, super-strict father all their lives. Forced to wear Mum's odd hand-made garments and forbidden from reading teenage magazines, they know they're very different to 'normal' girls – but when Dad has a stroke and ends up in hospital, unable to move or speak, Prue suddenly discovers what it's like to have a little freedom. Sent to a real school for the first time, Prue struggles to fit in.