
My Dad Was Sober for 16 Months & I Had Him Back — Then My Granddad Died & He Relapsed Hard & Within Four Months He Was Gone
Episode 83 | Sarah Drage — The Doctor, the Car Keys & What Happens When You Finally Get Your Dad Back and then lose him again...Sarah Drage grew up in West Yorkshire, the eldest of three daughters to ...
10 Aug 1h 40min

I Lay Buried in Snow in Shorts for Two Hours & Five Minutes in the Scottish Highlands & Broke a Guinness World Record — Three Years Earlier I Was Rattling Outside a Health Centre
Episode 82 | Michael Kiernan — The Wrong Number, the Guinness World Record & the Cold Water That Changed EverythingMichael Kiernan grew up in Crosshill, a small town where everybody knew everybody and...
3 Aug 1h 45min

People See My Tattoos & the First Thing They Do Is Offer Me a Drink or Drugs or Both — They've Got Me Completely Backwards
Episode 81 | Ashley Baker — Rocket Fuel at 13, Death Metal in Dubai & 17 Years Sober His Own WayAshley Baker was born in the UK but never lived there. He grew up in Dubai in the late seventies and eig...
27 Juli 1h 31min

I Grew Up Knowing If My Dad Had Four Cans in the Fridge Everything Would Be OK — But If He Went to the Pub With His Friends I Needed to Hide Under the Covers
Episode 80 | Scott Murdoch — Four Cans in the Fridge, the Marathon des Sables & Running to the First MinisterScott Murdoch grew up on the schemes of Loch Lomond — grey houses, young teams, a school th...
20 Juli 1h 36min

I Was Going Door to Door Around the Neighbours Asking If They Had Any Wine Left — That Was Where My Life Had Got To
Episode 79 | Paul Drayton — Ride or Die Trying: Beach Blanket Babylon, Two Brain Operations & the Love Story at the Heart of It AllPaul Drayton grew up in Sunderland — doors unlocked, family holidays,...
13 Juli 1h 16min

I Decorated the Entire Hospital Ward in Blood — The Doctor Came Back the Next Morning & Said You've Got a 20% Chance of Making It Through the Next Hour
Episode 77 | Dan Sheridan — Big Dan Stella in a Straight Glass: Cirrhosis, a 20% Chance & the Liver That Changed EverythingDan Sheridan grew up in Harwell, Oxfordshire — a village with five pubs and a...
29 Juni 1h 26min

I Got Off the Plane & There Were Cops Waiting — Drug Trafficking Charges, Deported, Lifetime Ban From the US & That Was the Moment Something Finally Shifted
Episode 76 | Brad McLeod — The Million Dollar Man: Running from everything, Drug Trafficking & the Moment Everything ShiftedBrad McLeod was born in Canada, one of twins, to a sixteen-year-old mother s...
22 Juni 1h 18min




















