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#Chances4Children: Care leaver launches podcast exploring history of care

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A 20-year-old care leaver has launched a podcast exploring the depiction of children in care through the ages.
The podcast is hosted by Julian Brown in partnership with Coram. Picture: Coram
The podcast is hosted by Julian Brown in partnership with Coram. Picture: Coram

Julian Brown has launched Foundling: Found, a new fortnightly podcast series in partnership with the UK’s oldest children’s charity Coram.

Alongside guests including author of the Tracy Beaker and Hetty Feather books, Dame Jacqueline Wilson, founding director of social enterprise Madlug, Dave Linton, historian Lucinda Hawksley, and young people with experience of the care system, Brown looks at stories of care dating back as far as the 1700s over 12 fortnightly programmes.

It comes as part of Coram’s new four-year programme, Voices Through Time: The Story of Care, funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. 

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