In this episode, Edwina talks with Paddy Wivell, award winning film director and producer, about his experience making the Channel 4 series ‘Prison’, a behind-the-scenes exploration of life at HMP Durham and HMP Foston Hall. Paddy discusses the importance of building trust with both the officers and the residents, and of the range of human experience he witnessed and explored in the series – from the violence to the humour, to the tenderness of the relationships. He also explains how he saw first-hand, the impact of ‘Healing Trauma’, (the peer-led trauma intervention introduced by One Small Thing) upon the women residents at Foston Hall. 

View Series 2: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/prison

Follow Paddy on Twitter: @Paddywivell

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