Charlie Mackesy
speaker
718 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 8 Jul
Charlie Mackesy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so we shared him really from 18 years ago.
And so it's lovely because I can talk to them about him.
He came to stay and then stayed.
for 18 years, whatever it was.
And that's quite good to chat about his ways and crying.
And mum, with my sister, we send each other photographs of mum doing funny things.
So I think, you know, processing with others really helps if you can.
And I think, for me, I think with mum...
there was such a tenderness and a humor and a lightness.
And she really loved the drawings and she stuck them all over her walls and that you couldn't see the walls for the drawings.
And I love that.
Yes.
You know, and when she had the book, she wore out everything.
the cover with her fingers, she would read like this, and so the embossing, the words were off.
I've still got the book, there's nothing left.
Sometimes she would hold the book open and she would, with her fingers, run over the drawings to feel them.
And the only place I've ever seen that before was in a place called the Dragonfly Unit, which was a hospital for teenagers who are struggling mentally.
And in lockdown it was empty.
I covered the corridors and other rooms with the drawings.
and never met any of them.
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