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Podcast: Let Fear Bounce - Tossing out nuggets of hope
Episode: EPS 36 A mission to reduce lonliness with John Reed
Description: John is the owner of a Community Interest Company that specializes in delivering programmes into the prison population, with the objective of reducing loneliness and social isolation.
He uses poetry, music, comedy and chat to do this, it is very popular, and could be delivered via Zoom anywhere in the world. Loneliness is one of the main causes of anxiety and depression, and therefore the recipients need not be inside prison, they could live anywhere.
The topic of prisons generally, is one that many people have a fear of,
This is one fear...