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every 48 days
Average audio length:
21 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United Kingdom
24 episodes
since April 28, 2021
episodic

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Morgan was bullied at school and found it hard to make friends. At the time he came to Jamie’s Farm aged 13 he had fallen in with the wrong crowd and was doing noticeably worse at school. He says that he could easily have gone off the rails, but that his visit to the farm helped him gain the confid…

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Like many young people today, Iram suffered from anxiety and was crippled with shyness when she came to Jamie’s Farm aged 14. Having grown up in care, she says that many decisions about her life were made by others and that she hadn’t learned to speak up for herself. This held her back at school be…
John Bosco grew up in Nigeria, but says there was so much violence where they lived that his family decided he'd be safer abroad. He arrived in Heathrow as an unaccompanied asylum seeker aged 15. There are now more than 7000 asylum-seeking children in the UK. John Bosco's honest account is a rare o…
When he was 12 George didn’t really speak, especially around people he didn’t know. He has Autism Spectrum Disorder and ADHD, but this wasn’t diagnosed until later in life.  He says this meant he sometimes exploded with frustration, and often got into fights. George didn’t feel like he fitted in a…
When Adele visited Jamie’s Farm aged 13 she was at risk of exclusion from school. She says she found it hard to concentrate and was always getting sent out of class. Ever rebellious, she refused to get off the bus when she first arrived at the farm, but credits her experiences there with a change i…
Riley grew up in care, and came to Jamie’s Farm when he was 14 years old full of energy and struggling to find his place in the world. Having often been let down by the adults around him, he protected himself by anticipating rejection and failure, putting on a hard front and looking for approval in…
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