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When East End lad Clifford Thompson joined the London Fire Brigade at 19 he was quickly hooked on the danger.“Firefighters crave the next callout - the action and drama,” he explains. “No one claims to be a hero but you learn to play that role and love being in the grip of a crisis. It’s an addiction, to the gruesome and the bizarre, fuelled by adrenaline."But in 1991 Cliff's world fell apart when a three year old boy died before his eyes.Guilt, anger and bottled-up horrors sent him spiralling into depression. Diagnosed with PTSD he left the fire service and became a writer and BBC journalist. And he's now written a searingly-honest memoir called Falling Through Fire.In the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower tragedy Cliff, 50, spoke to Rachael Bletchly the Daily Mirror's Chief Writer, about his own experiences and the pressures faced by our 999 heroes. Please leave a review and let us know who you'd like to hear in The Interview in future. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
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With a doctor for a girlfriend and a gran and grandad who were cared for by hard-pressed hospital staff before their deaths, Russell Howard knows a thing or two about the struggles facing the NHS For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
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Jamie Oliver is a chef known to millions of people around the world for his restaurants, TV shows and healthy eating campaigns. The 42-year-old has now spent around 20 years on TV, having been spotted by the BBC when working as a sous chef in The River Cafe. His own debut series The Naked Chef, which was followed by his first cook book subsequently becoming the No. 1 best-seller in the UK. And since then his career has flourished. He trained up disadvantaged young people to work in his restaurant Fifteen and has also campaigned to include the quality of school dinners.For his latest TV series Quick & Easy Food on Channel 4, he is aiming to get people cooking after work with a series or recipes that use just five ingredients. He talks to Daily Mirror showbiz editor Mark Jefferies (@MirrorJeffers) about his last 20 years on TV, the current show and his aims for the next decade.Let us know who you'd like to hear in The Interview in future when you leave a review. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
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