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In GBA 210 we get better acquainted with Stephen. As we sit on London Fields in the sunshine he tells me about growing up: childhood in Middlesborough, early adulthood in Uganda and London, working in the mental health system, losing anger and finding perspective.

The conversation features stories of risk taking, danger, violence and car crashes told openly and with humour.

Content Note: Mental Heath, Fighting, Discription of an animals violent death

Stephen doesn't plug anything.

I plug:

What About the Men: https://www.facebook.com/events/1554323898168649/

The #ManSurvey: http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/

Tragic Summer: http://www.facebook.com/events/1374545949536475/

And Tragic Spring on the Stand Up Tragedy podcast: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy

We mention:

London Fields: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Fields
Spark London: http://sparklondon.com/
PTSD: http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/post-traumatic-stress-disorder/pages/introduction.aspx
H Rider Haggard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Rider_Haggard
Joseph Conrad: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad
Whitby: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitby
Scarborough: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough,_North_Yorkshire
Cuban Heals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_heel
Carrie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_%281976_film%29
Diagram: http://platformthing.com/2014/06/11/this-is-why-editing-your-own-work-is-problematic/
Kafka:

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