Rob Parsons

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553 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 26 Apr

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Extraordinary Life Stories · Rob Parsons OBE | Extraordinary Life Stories · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

And he said to me a phrase, John, that I've heard hundreds of times from him.

It was a hangover for his time in care when he was a child.

He said, have I done a bad thing?

I said, no, you haven't done a bad thing.

It's just Dan and I wondered, well, perhaps it was time.

And suddenly Diane burst into the room.

And she said to me, have you?

I said, no.

She said, Ronnie, can I borrow Rob a moment?

Sure.

And she dragged me downstairs into the kitchen, burst into tears.

And she said to me, we can't do it.

I can't do it.

My life has been a bit of a surprise to me, to be honest, including being here with you now, John.

So brought up in a little terraced house with no inside toilet, no running hot water, no toilet paper.

Hopeless at school.

My teacher wrote when I was 14, he's making no use of what little ability he had.

I believed that, that I was rubbish.

And then a few people came into my life

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