Stolen Goodbyes

Welcome to the award-winning Stolen Goodbyes with Karen Rice, foreign affairs journalist, and podcaster. Each week inspiring wives, husbands, partners, children, and newly-weds intimately recount the shock and anguish of death to Covid 19 without warning or goodbye. Each season we push the boundaries to explore, explain and uncover a myriad of aspects of grief to Covid 19. Forced to grieve in isolation, these people detail needless mistakes and decisions that cost lives including patients being placed on Covid hospital wards when they were Covid-free or others condemned to an early death by the secret use of Do Not Resuscitate forms. Some were left to die alone, the ultimate social taboo. This unique, legacy podcast is a social history record of the widespread suffering caused by the Coronavirus pandemic of 2020, an infection that changed the world as we know it. It is also an important space where ordinary yet extraordinary people are remembered and celebrated for everything that made them quintessentially unique and irreplaceable. The participants of this podcast have bared their souls in a bid to stop their loved ones from being written off as just another statistic when they were much-loved individuals whose premature deaths could help to save others from the same fate while holding those responsible to account. This Covid 19 podcast helps participants and listeners to come to terms with a grief like no other. Created, produced, and hosted by Karen Rice, the Stolen Goodbyes podcast won gold in the fiercely competitive Best Lockdown category of the British Podcast Award 2021. Stolen Goodbyes is described as: "outstanding ethical and trauma-informed journalism. Karen Rice manages to capture a historic event in real time by listening with empathy. Future generations will listen to this podcast and know what it felt like to live through this pandemic." Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma. Please listen to, review, and share this podcast with your network, it really helps! If you would like to make a donation (no matter how small) to the running costs of this passion project, please visit: https://karen-rice.com/podcast/ You can follow Karen on Twitter @Ricekmc and Stolen Goodbyes on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3ITXSFC Facebook: https://bit.ly/3kGGwnG and Youtube: http://bit.ly/3Yq0jW5 Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/stolen-goodbyes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Honouring my family
18/07/2023
I felt privileged to speak to Karen about losing three members of my immediate family in the space of fourteen days. It has been a roller coaster ride of emotions for a long time and I still find talking about my family helps me come to terms with what happened. Karen is extremely easy to talk to and although we have never met I felt very comfortable during the session. She has a very challenging subject to discuss on her podcast but she does it magnificently.
A chance to honour my dad
30/05/2023
Speaking to Karen for my podcast was a very cathartic experience, and she was a great interviewer, asking the right questions and listening carefully to my responses before asking her best question. I have listened to others in the series and it’s a beautiful way to honour our loved ones, who were denied so many of the funeral rites and so on that they should’ve had. It felt special to be able to honour them this way.
Beautiful stories from those who’ve lost so much
17/05/2023
This podcast is an amazing opportunity for those lost to Covid to finally have a voice through their loved ones. It tells people their stories about their life and loves. Karen has been able to create an online legacy for those lost to Covid. Thank you Karen for a wonderful podcast.
Raw but beautiful
29/03/2023
Karen has put together a raw, but beautifully crafted collection of stories from people who suffered great losses during the Covid pandemic. They are relatable, emotional and go through a number of issues faced by those grieving. As well as this we get to hear about those lives that were forever changed by the pandemic, those that passed away and their families left behind. This isn’t just about covid though, it’s about grief and all the raw emotions that go with it. Thanks Karen
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- CreatorKaren Rice
- Episodes44
- Seasons4
- RatingClean
- Copyright© Karen Rice
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