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Lucy Greenwell

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
895 total appearances

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Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

Selina says Jennifer was a good nanny, reliable and loving towards the children.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

Gussie remembers Jennifer giving her a little fluffy rabbit as a present.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

Is she the only one that made it into the family album?

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

We had quite a few.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

She's joking, I think.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

But there were a lot of nannies over the years.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

Gussie's number four of the five children.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

In the 1980s, our two families were good friends and we'd often come here after school or at weekends.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

Gussie and her siblings were brilliantly badly behaved and the whole place crackled with mischief and fun.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

I imagine it might have been quite challenging for any nannies with a delicate disposition.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

We can't find the photo of Jennifer, but I see glimpses of other nannies frozen in various scenes in this 1980s world.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

School sports day, kids' birthday parties, a world that Jennifer would have stepped straight into upon arrival that summer of 1987.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

If Selina and her husband went away, 18-year-old Jennifer would be left in sole charge of the children overnight.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

And that's what happened on the night of Monday 5th October 1987.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

So in this large house there was just Jennifer and the family's two youngest children.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

At this point, Jennifer's been working as a nanny here for four months.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

Selina arrives back late the next morning on the Tuesday and instantly she notices that something unusual's going on.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

But it wasn't a burglary.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

There was something far stranger unfolding inside.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

In Selina's house, the family nanny always used to sleep in a room that's reached by a small door in the corner of the kitchen and up a narrow set of wooden stairs.