Gordon Darroch - All the Time We Thought We Had.
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Description
Journalist Gordon Darroch reflects on life, love, and the unexpected turns that shape us. From his passion for literature, film, and music. To the realities of meeting the love of your life aged 17 to parenting two children with autism, he shares his journey with honesty and depth. But when his wife received a terminal cancer diagnosis at just 36, everything changed.
How do you navigate grief, resilience, and the time you thought you had? And how the hell do you cope when the life you built is suddenly turned upside down? A highly moving conversation about love, loss, and finding a way forward.
Life Jackets
Lifejackets in this podcast refer to the personal tools and rituals that keep us afloat in the waves of life. Whether it’s a film, tv show, music, a favourite book, a crossword puzzle, or the steady presence of a dog, these are the things that keep us afloat. Everyone needs their own lifejackets—small but essential things that help us stay sane in an insane world.
- Book – The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Murakami), The Crimson Petal and the White (Michel Faber). Writers: Muriel Spark, James Kelman, James Joyce, Milan Kundera, Geert Mak (Dutch historian)
- Films – Withnail & I, A Life Less Ordinary, Blade Runner
- TV – Breaking Bad, Heimat, Our Friends in the North
- Music – New Order, Janis Joplin, Templo Diez (Dutch band), Future Islands
- Gardening – Not really (!) I have a garden and I enjoy sitting in it, but plants are a foreign language
- Hobbies/Exercise – Running
- Pets/Best Friends – Magteld’s parents, Luc and Diny Jansen. Two longstanding friends in Glasgow, Simon Stuart and Paul Hunter. And my partner, but I’ll have to check if she wants to be mentioned