The Goodnight Tapes
November 14th, 2007 by Steve BowbrickAnother one from the archive. I’m going to attach a warning here. If you’re a parent (or just a bit sentimental - or, like me, both) you might want to skip this one. Kids miss their mums and dads when they’re away - even when they’re ‘away’ at Her Majesty’s pleasure.
Here’s a programme from June 2005 about a scheme that encourages incarcerated parents to record stories for their kids at home. Even parents who can’t read can join in: storytellers help them to come up with their own stories for the tapes. Sometimes they sing. It’s heartbreaking, really. And thought-provoking (what do we do to a family when we take a parent away and lock her or him up?). MP3.
