In this episode of What I Wish I’d Known, we hear British politician Bridget Phillipson’s first hand account of growing up in poverty on a council estate in Sunderland. From house burglaries, to school bullies and feeling ‘caught between two worlds’ as a student at Oxford university.
WARNING: contains some strong language and discussion of sensitive topics including: Death, abuse
Series producer: Anya Pearce
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