Halloween Special 2021: The Fountain Road Files

South London. When the police found him, those who saw the state of his body had no doubt he'd been murdered. After a thorough investigation, however, the cause of Ben's death was judged unknown and labeled simply death by misadventure. But then they discovered the tapes, an audio diary that Ben had been recording of the pandemic in the months before he died. These are those tapes, raw and unadorned. Make of them what you will. Happy Halloween, and remember, wherever

you are, it is always the witching hour. Somewhere testing I think that's working. It's March sixteenth, twenty twenty My name's Ben Williams, twenty seven. I live in in Twoting in London, and yeah, I just got this audio recorder because I thought I might keep a diary of what's going on at the moment, basically in the middle of what some people think might be a global pandemic. Yeah, it's called coronavirus or coronavirus, and yeah, a lot of people have died, so it's got a few names. Actually,

it's also called COVID nineteen. There's a big one here, Severe acute respiratory syndrome. Coronavirus two or SARS CoV two is another name. They're saying that it's started in Wuhan. It's a city in China with a like a population of something like eleven million people. And I've never heard of it before, but that's like, that's bigger than London. I mean, that's kind of mind blowing in itself. Anyway. Basically, in Italy over two thousand people have died already. It's

kind of getting about of control there. And in China it's over three thousand now or what they're saying anyway, And yeah, here in the UK it's I think we're over fifteen now. Fifty people have died. You know, there's already kind of government campaigns telling people to wash their hands loads and you know, like avoid big groups and even questioning whether people should fly or like travel anywhere.

But yeah, so I guess that's the first diary entry. Um, it's cool the Health Service comparing notes and talking to leaders around the world, and I can tell you that the UK is now leading a growing global campaign amongst so I'm just listening now to basically the government started doing these live press briefings about the spread of the virus,

which is pretty sobering. So Prime Minister Boris Johnson has just been talking about how they think cases might start to double every five or six days, and they're saying we need to stop all non essential contact. So yeah, that's a that's a pretty big deal. I was thinking it, maybe putting a diary together of you know, what's been going on, and I don't know, maybe if it gets a bit serious and it might be quite interesting, maybe

put it out as a podcast or something. No one's going to want to listen to that they might I was your dad anyway, Yeah, he's fine, he's busy with work. I mean, I don't think he's really kind of paying much attention to this pandemic stuff. I think he thinks it's it's not really going to hit us. Yeah, I don't think they'll be that bothered about it, to be honest, No,

not at all. So you know about all this um this lockdown stuff, I don't know if it's true, but I was just thinking, like, if we have to stay inside, why didn't you come and stay with me? And what in your haunted flats? It's not haunted? Do you think anything over fifty years old is haunted? But what about all those weird noises I always happened here whenever I'm

staying Yeah, all those weird pipes and mice. We were talking about maybe moving in together anyway at some point, So a good chance to give it a go when it Yeah, I guess let's just wait and see what happens with a lockdown, and we're going it actually comes into play and then we can make a decision, all right. Yeah, I know, who knew the apocalypse is going to be all about running out of toilet paper? Yeah? I managed to get some rice pasta yeah, and a load of

cans stuff. Yeah, but should I be washing it? You are. What about fruit? Yeah, I've got bananas, some apples. Well, I was just gonna use washing up liquid. Yeah, exactly, That's what I was thinking. How come you supposed to use soap and water on a can, but you can just run a banana under the tap nine days? I thought it was two days. Where did you read that? Fuck it, I'm just gonna put soap on the bananas. Yeah, all right, quite cheers them. Happy birthday to you, Happy

birthday to you. Two of our staff members are in intensive care and I've been tested, yeah seriously, and they tested positive today. So what are you all getting tested? What's going on there? There's nothing in place for us, which obviously we will have been exposed because they were at work last week and then they did start to feel one well, so they went, you know, went off, but then within a few days have ended up intensive care.

Oh my god. But there's nothing. Even the advice when we rang, the advice was that you don't have to close if you don't want to. But fortunately actually we put our staffs, you know, and the children as well being before. Yeah. But also over the last three weeks, Yeah, we've had quite a few members of staff unwell. But this is the thing. If you're not tested, how on earth are we to know? Yeah, everything is still so vague,

isn't it. Yeah, personally, I think we've had coronavirus in the school for over a month, So definitely, if we'd closed two weeks ago, yeah, we would have stopped the spread because there is no way, especially if we don't know about it. So it's Wednesday, March eighteenth today. Normally i'd be at work right now, but I've got a text last night from my boss just saying don't come in today. Obviously everything that's been going on, they just felt like closing the cafe was the right thing to do,

and I guess I sort of agree with them. But it's a bit worrying. What the what the fun? What's chairman? Chairman? You knocked over a glass? It's fine, I understand. I've got chairman bla company. Anyway, I like to say, hopefully you know it's not gonna be that long. Um. Absence makes the heart grow fonder and all that. That's true, it does, it does. What's that is that? Is it a big be crying in the background? Yeah, yes, been crying NonStop pretty much. It's that family next door. Remember

they've got that little kid. I mean there are kids about three. That sounds like a newborn. They're all the same money. No, it's quite different really. Nine in the UK after testing positive for the viruses, I've gone in there. I went to the first one, like all the pasta's gone, all the rice has gone, bread's gone toil, the paper again, all gone. I went to the next one, same, all gone. How long's that gonna go on for? Like if more people will start panic buying, then all shelves be empty.

I don't know, Like do I have to stop pile? But then I'm not supposed to stop pile, because then that means there won't be food for everyone else. But I'm just thinking, fuck it, Like if other people are stop piling, I don't want to be the one who doesn't have anything to eat. I mean they're saying we might be like locked inside. If we're gonna have to be staying inside, then obviously you probably don't want to

be going out if it's that bad. I mean, I don't know what they're planning to do, Like you know what, They're gonna have the army on the street making sure we stay in I mean that can't work, can it. What they're going to be dropping food around our houses. I mean, I don't mind it, like we had rationing in the Second World War, and you know there are people starving all over the world, but it would just be good to have a bit of a sense of you know, what's the plan. What are we're supposed to

be doing here? Because I've just been to the shop and it feels like that it's going to get stripped bare and I can't get a delivery slot on the computer because it's all booked up. So yeah, so I'm just to be worried about that, a bit worried about what's going to happen now buying a supermarket. Patrick's brother in law and his family have moved in to protect

their parents. But where they're staying there, well, we've just moved our kids into our bedroom, right, they've given them the other two rooms two rooms, right, helpful, I think in a way. Yeah, that's really good of you to them, and it's good for our kids because then they're being amused by their cousins, which is great. Well, you know, well, Boris Johnson was saying he's happily he'll happily shape people's hands. Yeah, I mean that'll probably come back to So they've told

him not to come into hospital. Oh shit, So what do they think it is? Cancer? Well, how do they know that if he's not been in to be checked? So why they do this lockdown? Then you're just going to stay up there, it's granny all right. Oh well it's good you're there then. Yeah, I'm all right. Obviously you know, the cafe was shut, so the job's kind of on pause. I guess hopefully it's not for too long. No, Is that the one about the guy with all the tigers? No,

I've not seen it yet, but I'll check it out. Yeah, maybe we could do one of those zoom calls. Do you have that? Yeah, it's just like skype. All right, people, reasonable instruction. Yeah. I don't know what to say about it really. Um I guess I kind of knew this was coming, but now it's official, just feels I just feel a bit nervous about it. Um. I mean, I'm here on my own for a start, so I can't see people, can't have them round. I don't want to get it. I don't want my parents to get it.

So it's just better to stay in, isn't it? Then? Hi, it's it's listen. I really soryist is over voicemail. Um, but it looks like that's that for the time being. So we will be closed from tomorrow. UM. Still not sure what this means for you, but for the time being obviously, don't don't come in. UM. I guess you'd hope there'll be some some sort of government support over money, but who knows. Anyway, give us a call if you're chet. Um. Yeah,

that's very sorry. So it's uh, it's Tuesday twenty fourth official lockdown started today and just got his text to check this out. Gov dot UK coronavirus Alert. New rules in force now you must stay at home. More info and exemptions at gov dot UK forward slash coronavirus stay at home, Protect the NHS, Save lives. I mean that is that is real? Yeah, it's quite a yeah, it's quite God. That baby is driving me nuts. It's just

crying all the time. It woke me up last night and there is again on fressure over the lack of yees all that. Yeah, but it's Italy though, isn't it, don't it? We'll get like that. It's safe. Yeah exactly. Yeah. Yeah, Now I'm doing it all the time. Yeah, I feel like my skin is gonna fall off. Yeah. Just use moisturizer. Yeah yeah, it's honestly, you need to or your hands will just be read raw. Yeah. Well yeah, I lost it obviously. I mean I've had to shut the cafe,

so a love being furloughed. I think, how do you think I feel? Then? I'm the one who hasn't got a job. How was I supposed to know a fucking pandemic was going to start? That is the sound of silence. It's so weird. So it's a Thursday in March twenty sixth and I've just come outside Tom, I don't know, I guess see if everyone was doing it and there's like nobody here. It's so strange. And listen to that.

Not a plane in the sky. You see one now and it's like the end of twenty eight days later, you know, and you're just looking up at this thing in complete awe. Well, they're not social distancing. I'm on the high street now, and I mean this is even more eerie because like, obviously there's a few more people here. There's a couple of cars I'm not sure they are key workers, but anyway, just crazy. There's like all the shop fronts are down. I mean there's like maybe one

or two people on this whole high street. It's so weird, so weird. It's like three people here. I'm surprised it not more because it's in a way. You know, if you are and allowed out for a bit, this is where people are going to come. But I don't know, maybe just people being nervous at the moment. M Here are the birds. I mean, I don't even maybe you could hit that before, but I just I didn't notice it so many of them. There's quite a few people jogging,

um people walking around. But I watch it. Watch that meet let's go go around two meters. It just comes straight at me. I can see him jogging all the way down here, right next to the fence, can't go anywhere, and he's practically brushed my shoulder. Just watching the briefing tonight,

and I've noticed that. So the podiums had changed. So before they were just saying, you know, each want to like stay at home, protect the NHS, save lives in kind of blue and white, which is I guess conservative colors now they've changed it so each podium's got like one of each color of the sort of main political parties. So there's yellow for lived, blue for Conservative, red for labor,

and it says like stay home in the yellow. Conservatives have got protect the NHS and Labor has got saved lives. Maybe it's a dominant Cummings strategy to try and get everybody who's watching to think that all the other parties are somehow involved in the management of the pandemic, so it all goes tits up. Obviously, we won't just blame the Conservative Party. That was brilliant. I wasn't sure if any one was going to do it, but yeah, like the whole street was there. Got kind of be emotional.

Really just nice to see people outside, isn't it, Because he's sort of I know, we're like we are allowed out. I've been out, but I'm thinking more about not going near people than you know, feeling like I'm with people. But tonight it's like properly, you know, got to weigh a bit of the neighbors. And yeah, I mean, bloody hell, they don't have to deserve it. I mean, what an amazing effort, and they're doing it without all the proper bloody gear, like how, I mean, how is that even possible?

Should be doing it for the shot workers as well, though, I mean turns out who would have thought it that these key workers, You know, they might not make the millions that CEOs make or what the guy's making the city, but the country kind of falls apart without all these other jobs that don't superficially look like they're impressive or important. Yeah, so we should clap for them as well, or at least I hope when this is over. If it is over, ever,

then you know you won't forget that. I thought i'd try and do a bit of baking since everyone else is doing it. Um, So I've got the chairman. He helped me out. We're making some hot cross buns. Is that right, buddy? Is that right? Yeah, they're in the oven right now. Actually, I think he looked all right. Just check him out, ship Prime Minister. Well that's a big story. He's not in the best of shape either, so we're that's not good for him. Oh shit, oh

ah m hm, oh Fox's sake. Yeah. So when I came back in, it was just like flower on the floor. He'd been walking through it. Have you watched those Hours to Green videos yet? No, not yet, but I will do. It's on my list. Yeah, check him out. It's really good. So you're getting out every day, Yeah, a little bit. But you know, it's not like having the Highlands on your front door with it, no, I know, but it's some important you need to make sure you go. So

just for like your mental health and everything. What do you fucking that is enough? That is enough? That's not. Yeah, I can't sleep because it's just a really strange noise. It's been going on for a while now. It's coming from the wall. I don't know if you can hear us, okay in the fireplace maybe year that it's weird. I don't know. Maybe it's like mice or something. I've got Yeah, say what, Oh, now she didn't perform she as a judge.

That's a nice trick question. Yeah, well done. It pretty pathetic too for me on that man, I thought I got five who Actually Tuesday, March thirty first, death rates are still going up. It's just gone up another couple of hundred in the last day. We're over two thousand now. And yeah, just got this letter from the Prime Minister I'm hoping he hasn't written it himself, because obviously i'd have to disinfect it. Then I won't do the voice. So I'm writing to you to update you on the

steps we're taken to combat coronavirus. More we all follow the rules, the fewer lives will be lost, and the sooner life can return to normal. It is with that great British spirit that we will beat coronavirus, and we will beat it together. So it's just the British spirit really that we need. Don't need any of this other stuff. Ppe it's funnier way he's saying about how fewer lives will be lost and the sooner life can get back to normal, return to normal, because I think normal's gone me,

isn't it. Maybe this is a moment. It's terrible, it's horrible, we're all having to live through it. No one wants to be living through this right now. But could this be an opportunity to improve things, make things better? In a way, it's sort of exposing how what was before wasn't actually normal, like what's now is normal. Having a virus come in and just completely dismantle all the kind of social conventions that we had got used to and just sort of took for granted, like a working week,

a weekend. You know, there's no such thing as Sunday, like cosmically, it's just that's what we've given the names of the week, so we can plan and keep a diary, all important things, being very useful. But at the same time, it's funny, isn't it. We keep talking about going back to normal. What we mean is going back to the fictions and the things that we made up that we

feel secure being surrounded by. And I wonder if we can take this opportunity to in a useful way interrogate some of the fictions we had before, like having to go to work Monday to Friday nine to five. You know, maybe people might realize this something to be gained. There's some value in, you know, working from home or being able to manage your time differently and in more profound ways as well, you know, hopefully you know, it's not I wouldn't even say it's better or worse. It's just

really different. With flu, you can take a lemsick, you can still lie down and rest and stuff. But if I've had proper flu, yes, if I've slept a lot but I've been able to read a book. This I can't even focus on literally lying. I can't sleep. Yeah, if feeling horrendous because the first two days I was still sort of active and up and about. And then Patrick said, if you've got this, you need to go and like rest, it's probably going to get worse. Are

you isolating then? I mean it's about avia the house, isn't it. Yeah, I can't. Basically I'd just lie in my bed and at night everyone comes in, but we have the windows open, but there's not really anything else we could do. Yeah, leveliously, me alone in the day. Really, I know they've talked about herd immunity and stuff back in there, Oh my god, a few weeks ago and stuff, all the messages. I don't go to hospital, and obviously I wouldn't go to hospital because I can breathe. Yeah,

that's not a problem. But there is no way that I'm not passing whatever I have to the rest of this household. I think. In fact, Lily hasn't eaten all day to day. She's a one year old, so she's not well. Yeah, my friend was saying that as well. They tried to call one on one and then it goes to the COVID line, doesn't it right, Yeah, it's just a bunch of people in the room just telling people not to go to hospital. Can't they at least track people that think they might be ill, but just

take their address or something. There must be a better way to get a sense of where it is. Yeah, it's like they've literally got call centers of people just telling people not to go to hospital, but then to call one one one if you feel really sick. And my mate was like, I've just called one one one and have come through to you. Yeah, but dad, that's not really the point, is it. Well, firstly hasn't stopped

yet and it's still going up. But also it's a false equivalence if you don't take into account what happens if we don't do anything. But it could have been five hundred thousand. So it's not a question of saying we could just open everything up and the cost would be twenty thousand people, because that's all it's going to die. The cost of doing that it could be half a million people. So it is that a price worth paying? Yes,

that's going to happen. I've lost my job. Yeah, but it's not in our hands to dictate whether it's not like a war, though you keep saying that it's not up to us when the virus decides to call it a day. Yeah, we can get a vaccine. Fine, but it's going to be like at least a year. It's just going to take time. Jobs are going to be lost, the economy is going to be badly affected. I don't know why. That's just in the news constantly. Yes, we know the economy is going to go down, but on

the other side of this it will come back again. Yeah, But that's the thing. It's not a question of what is the best option. We don't know how it's going to affect the economy. We don't know how many people are going to die. All we know for sure is that people are going to die, and if we do these measures now, we can save them. If that is the only certainty, why is it even a discussion. Well, I don't know. I just keep hearing his scratches in the wall. I'm guessing that's what it is, you know,

having all this food here. I'm definitely not coming around until you but that's started. Yeah, but I don't know if it's that for sure. If I could have someone around to look at it. I'll call someone in, but there's not much I can do at the moment. How is your money situation? It's not great. I mean I've not heard anything about this furlough business, so just waiting on that. Really, Yeah, I don't know. I don't want

to think about it. Really. What about your dad? Could you ask him for Hell, no way, I'm not asking him for money, not after last time. Howly, shit, I've got one. I've got a delivery slot. Jesus Christ. I've been waiting so long for that, right, Well, only took me a couple of weeks, but it looks like I've got a delivery coming. When is it three weeks time? Brilliant? But you know better than nothing? J Christ? What was that? Right?

So I haven't been wearing them, but I'm definitely seeing more people outside with them on, so that's sort of making me think maybe I should be wearing them. I just don't get the messaging. It's a bit confusing. It's on the one hand, they're saying you don't need to wear a mask, but please don't buy any masks because the NHS staff need them, and so if they need them, surely they must do something right, which makes me just think it's something to do with it not doing anything

for you. It's more that they've made such a bloody balls up of having the ppe for the NHS workers that they're having to basically ask us to risk our lives just to cover their own mistakes. I mean, look, they do need it more than I do because I'm just here. You know, I'm only going out once a day. But it clearly does something. I mean, look at the far east right, Korea, Vietnam, China, Dale wear masks and correct me if I'm wrong, But have they not handled

this pretty well? Certainly compared to what we're doing. Anyway, I've just done something so bad. I just went to put the bins out and I was singing, fucking I was singing a Snoop Dog track or something anywhere. I look up and there's a fucking hearse in the middle of the street, and then I realize they are about ten people just standing right there, totally silent. Must have heard me rapping when I came out of the house all dressed in black, and then the fucking coffin comes out.

I don't know who it is. I've not. I think it's an old lady lives across the street. I don't know, I've never spoken to her, but I imagine it's coronavirus on our street. I feel so embarrassed. I'm sure they didn't even notice it, but it's just it was just weird because it was you know, obviously no one's around, so it's just totally silent. I had no idea. That's them going off. Now, shit, what you've just volunteered. Sure, that's a good idea. I mean, look, that's that is commendable.

But I mean you're pretty high risk. You're over seventy and you've just had a heart operation. Oh okay, they keep you away from the coronavirus patients. But still though it's a bit of an epicenter, isn't it for that sort of stuff? So when would you find out? Shit? Yeah, no, it's it's I'm impressed. What's that you go into a what you got into a fight? Right? Where were you cycling? Yeah? No, no, I don't know it. But hang on, what do you mean he was black? Yeah? But why did you say that?

It's got nothing to do with the story, has it. It's just a bit racist. Isn't it. You thought he was a drug dealer. Well that's even more racist, Dad, It is racist, of course it's racist. But Dad, if he was a white guy, you wouldn't have said this big white guy gone out? So why did you say black guy? Yeah, but just think about that. Well, anyway, what happened. You obviously didn't beat you up. You scared him off. I'm sure he did. H Hello, m fucking someone was in here? Will no, no what? Call the

police and then what they're gonna say? Someone came in fucking stats and tints up on the floor. Yeah, just in the middle of the floor. Yeah, but I don't know, fucking tell them it's not a fucking ghost. I don't know why they would do it. I don't think so. I haven't looked. That's not the point. Someone has been in the house. No, I'm not going to go you. I just called you because I'm scared. Yeah, did you see that? Where were they going? God, desert? Yeah, probably

santrape or something. Yeah, seven men aged forty to fifty and three women aged twenty three to twenty five. I think there's a bit more to that story. Yeah, exactly, all right, Yeah, same as everyone else. Really, although you'll never guess, well you probably will guess. You know Karen next door, she's having a bloody barbecue. Yeah, can you hear that? Yeah, yeah, it's about four people there. Well, she lives on her own. So can you even have

family though? I don't think so. Yeah I should, But no apology Home Secretary for these failings which enny chefs, staff and their families blame on the government. Well, I'm sorry if people feel that they have I'm sorry if you feel they have been failings. Oh, I'm sorry if you feel you've died. You've got to be kidding me. What the fuck is wrong with these people? The total number of coronavirus deaths and UK hospitals has risen above

ten thousand. That's the thing. They just kicked them out of hospital, don't even test them and send them straight into a care home in the most at risk group. Yeah thousands probably HS for saving his life. Yeah, so you're doing it then? So when'd you start sterling next week? Are you sure it's a good idea? You sound excited about it. No, it's good to see you give him back, you know, after all your generation have done to ours, La Dad, you do realize you didn't actually fight in

the war, right, because I'm not convinced that you know that. Yeah, well I probably would if I was a doctor, but i'm not. So what am I supposed to do? I have been looking into volunteering. Actually, I'm just getting round to it anyway. It doesn't matter if a volunteer now or not. The point is we're the ones who are getting screwed over right now, so that we can stay inside and protect you lot. I'm not saying we don't

want to do it. I'm happy to do it. I'm just saying that, you know, maybe all these people in your generation, landlords and whatnot, maybe they can offer to drop the rent for a couple of months or something. It was most of you like the vote for Brexit, right, I'll give you that. We don't know if it's going to be good or bad. But the point is it's risky, isn't it, And it's putting our futures at risk, and most of us didn't vote for that. That's all I'm saying.

April fourteenth, God, I don't even know what day it is. I think it's Tuesday. Somebody has been claiming that this five G system is somehow contributing to coronavirus deaths, because I think it's something to do with it, maybe scrambling your DNA. I don't understand how that has got into

people's imaginations so much that they're burning fucking foaemasks. I love a conspiracy theory as much as the next person, but you know, I like them because it's fun to imagine in a way, but don't go burning fucking foemasks down.

I mean, right now, we definitely need them. But also, this is the thing about conspiracy theories and this kind of conspiracy theory is that, in a weird way, it makes people feel more secure to think that there's a conspiracy going on, to think that somewhere somebody is manipulating all this, you know, some organization in the shadows is

responsible for the chaos right now. Because although that is supposed to be the thing that scares you people, actually I think find the idea of that more reassuring than the idea that this shit is just happening. And I get that in a way, like you know, it's a perfectly human thing to not want to feel scared and feel in control. But I don't know, it's just I find it crazy. I just think, wouldn't it, in a way be better to just accept that this isn't a conspiracy,

that this is actually how things work. I know, silly trying to dig into the logic because there isn't any But I just think maybe if there's a way to challenge it enough so that it will stop someone burning a fucking foam mask down, then I've got to try, haven't I Yes, the reckon Is virus might have come out of a lab. Is that not just a bit

of a conspiracy theory? I don't know. I mean, basically, there is a virology lab right outside of Wuhan, and apparently that's where they've been testing similar things before, So I mean it's a bit of a coincidence. And what is the wet market anyway? I don't know. You tell me, well, I don't know. Hello, Hello, mum, Mum, I can't I can't hear you. Gotta put them, Yeah, put the microphone on.

I'm going to call you. Oh, there you go. What he needs to do their bit, and the way I'm doing my bit is by working every ad got to every health ministers doing that around the world. But my questions he is will he be taking a pay cut as he works footballers to do and as the government in New Zealand is doing well, I'm not proposing to do that. What I am proposing to do is work. Oh shit, is that power cut? I can see uh lights on the rest of the street, so it must

be refused. Let's have a look, hi, and then are you're doing You're right? Yeah, I think it's it's just the fuss going to meet always the back of the bloody cupboard. H yeah, Oh it's back on. Mhm. That's weird. Oh shit, I missed the clap. I can't go out now because that's if I go out halfway through, it's gonna look like I don't really give a ship. But if I don't go out, there could be lots of reasons why I haven't done it. Yeah, fuck it, I'm

hearing it again. That's oh god, oh god, huh chairman, Oh god, how did you get in there? No, come on, be serious. I was only joking. Well, you know, I don't know. It's like the other day, all the doors in the house just slam shut. I keep hearing these scratches, no idea what they are. I don't think they're mice. I don't know. Maybe I just need to get out. Yeah, you should, it's important to try and get out of it.

But also, um, I didn't tell you this, but just after I moved in, one of the neighbors mentioned something about something that happened here once, something something really bad, like what. I don't know. I don't know. I didn't They didn't say, Well, why didn't you tell me that? Because it's probably nonsense and I didn't want to scare you off and coming around. Why didn't you try and look into it before getting upset? There must be something

online about it. Hello ones from First Castle. Yeah, hi there, I'm just wondering if you can help me. I'm trying to find some information about my flat, or like the history of my flat, and I just wondered if is there any way I can find maybe some information about who might have lived there, or maybe some news archive. Possibly everything shut because of the pandemic at the moment. Fortunately,

perhaps you may want to try ancestry dot com. That might be a good question to start, all right, Yeah, brilliant, Thanks for your help. Okay, all right, cheers, bye bye. Delivery from Turkey carrying a large shipment of kids delayed. So that's over one hundred NHS staff now died. Oh that's mattew Just what do you mean? What about the furlough scheme? Isn't that I don't understand. So I haven't been there long enough to qualify for it. What difference

does it make. I've worked there just like anyone else. Are you sure there hasn't been some kind of mistake? What am I supposed to do? I'm not going to go you, but can you have just made something up? Well? Is there even going to be a job at the end of this? I haven't really found anything, so I've just put some requests on forums and stuff. Hopefully someone will get back to me about it. Oh, yeah, that

sounds interesting. I'm a little bit nervous about what it might be, but yeah, trying not to think about it too much. I'm not willing to one hundred percent say yeah, I think schools should open because we'll all be fine, because it's simply not true. Yeah, and although yes, statistically

it's really loved well. Having said that, some of our staff are staff, well, quite frankly, they should not have to come into work because the percentage of them being ill and dying, right is significantly higher, and they shouldn't be punished I made any thought about that, Absolutely not, and it shouldn't be punished for that, or villa fight for that. That's the things like can't they do it so that it's much more of an open, honest conversation

than it's like, right, I'm not joking. I think someone's in the house. Nice mm hmm, yeah, that's that's footsteps. Oh my god, huh hello, hull hello, h m hm. But when I went through to the kitchen, the back door was open. What so have your fun the police to say what someone walked into my house and then left the door open. I mean, I don't even know they can come around? Can they? At the moment, nothing was stolen. I mean someone came into your flat. You

need to cold leaves. It doesn't matter if they take something or not. Look, are you sure you didn't leave it open in the day? Definitely didn't leave open. I'm sorry. I'm just so fucking tired of the news and just constantly reading the news. But this virus recession, fucking endless lockdown. You don't seem like you're getting a lot of sleep. Maybe you should speak to someone like a therapist. Why

don't you sho show the NHS help plane. Right, So, as you know, I put a request out on one of those forums and it looks like someone's got back to me, which is great. Just having a look now to mister Williams, this might be of some interest. Okay, thank you, Roger. The challenges facing the government, holy shit, you're fucking kidding me right? Are you ready for this? Yeah? So this is from eighteen ninety five the Tooting tragedy.

Tooting was on March seventh, the scene of one of the most terrible tragedies that have occurred in London for many years. It resulted in the death by suicide of a man named Frank Taylor, a plasterer of Fountain Road. But wait, after he murdered his wife, Martha, and six of his children, including newborn baby George Shire eldest child, Frank Taylor survived. What follows is best described by the

surviving boy who made this statement. At about five thirty in the morning, I was in the back bedroom with my brothers and sisters when I heard my mother scream out murder. Then followed the sound of a heavy thud on the floor of the front bedroom. Immediately afterwards, Father come into our room, where in addition to myself, there were my brothers and sisters, Maggie aged thirteen, Annie eleven, Florrie seven, Freddie five, Willie three, and George three months.

On entering the room, Father said, oh, Frank, where are you? I replied, I'm here. Father. He then, without saying another word, seized me by the throat with his left hand, cut me on the right side of the throat and on both my hands and left arm with some sharp instrument, which I now know to have been a razor. At the time, all the other children were screaming, and my father then left the room. I managed to crawl into a corner, and almost immediately afterwards Father came back and

commenced cutting the throats of my brothers and sisters. He did them all except Florrie, and he then fell backwards on the floor and moaned. He got up soon afterwards and went into mother's bedroom, and I heard him sharpening the razor. He then came back and cut Florrie's throat, and immediately after stumbled back into his own room and exclaimed, Oh Lord, and then he moaned, for are we over twenty thousand. Now at some level that has to be

mistakes made by the government. Surely it's not about blaming. I'm not just blaming for the sake of it. It's about what they are blaming them for. Yeah, but if you can't scrutinize the decisions they're making and the consequences of those decisions, then what's the bloody point of any of it? Why have an election at all? Exactly? Can you imagine if it was Corbin in charge. If they're not handling it well, then isn't that reflective of them not being able to govern? Very well? No, Dad, you're

the snowflake, if you're the one getting upset. How can it possibly be doing a good job If the only measure of the job they're doing is whether people are dying or not. By that measure, people are definitely dying at a much worse rate than in other countries. You can't just say that's what the science says. There are lots of scientists saying lots of different things. What they mean is that's what some scientists were saying, that's the scientific advice they chose to latch onto. What's that got

to do with China. I don't live in China. And also, can you stop saying China. It's not all of China, it's just the Chinese government. Yeah, I saw that Norman Hunter. You're always talking about him. He's a bit older than you, though, wasn't he. I can announce that we have met our goal. The number of tests yesterday, on the last day of April was one hundred and twenty two. Yeah. But did you hit the target or did you just fudge it a bit to make it look like you did. I mean,

to be fair, you've got to set a target. I mean, if you hadn't set a hundred thousand, then you wouldn't have got anywhere near it. But just say it, Just say you didn't get one hundred thousand. But you've done a great job, to be honest, I think people will be happy with that, the testing capacity that we've built. Official statistics show that UK has now recorded the highest number of deaths linked to coronavirus in Europe. In England and Wales, almost a quarter happened in care homes, where

deaths are still rising. I've decided not to join in the clap tonight. Maybe that's wrong. I don't know, I mean starting to feel a little bit like, you know, this is drawing attention away from the fact that these people shouldn't have to put their lives on the line like this, they are heroes. I've been reading a bit about you know what NHS staff are saying that you know, they're not heroes and and all that, and that you

know what they really need is financial support. And you know, next time there's a vote for a bloody nurse's pay rise, maybe that that could be voted for now, and that the clap is somehow kind of cloud in that issue and drawing attention away from the fact that they've been woefully under funded and not given support, not given the protection that you know, National Health Service is entitled to. And I don't want to get political. It's not about

right or left or who's good and who's bad. It's like there are good people and bad people in each side. And how do we know how it might have been handled by someone else, It might have been worse. We just don't know. But it's just one thing after another of this Ppe was supposed to be getting flown in from Turkey. Turkey. I mean this is months down the line, right, so I've I've just come down to the park today and well, as you could probably tell, I can't believe it.

It's like there's about twenty groups of people just sat around. Seems like lockdown's over. Yeah, did yet hold of it? Yeah? What's going on? Patrick's taking her in now? Is she right? She breathing? All right? Fucking hell, you don't know that. We don't even know if it's coronavirus. She's calling me, hello, what's going on? You're right, population, that's what they just said, come straight in, all right, just let us know. Yeah, well, I speaking a bit. Fuck so it doesn't sound great,

but fuck yeah I can hear it again. Something I can It's in the room. It's in the room. What the fuck have you been watching? Normal people? Then? Uh? Nah, I haven't seen it yet, but um, yeah, So something happened last night, like what like something came into the bedroom and pulled the covers off the bed. Really, I'm not making up. I don't know what the fuck is going on, but something fucking came into the room last

night and pulled covers off the bed. Look, I've got it recorded, yeah, so why don't I send you the file and you can hear it for yourself? Does fucking footsteps? Like? Did you give that number a call? I don't need to call someone about it? What the fuck am I going to tell them? Well, I'm kind of experiencing exceptionally how I demand or I help mine, and therefore are needing to keep coal shops that we may have to as many coals as possible and help everyone that. Thank

you for calling Anxiety UKs Info line. We are now connecting you to a trained volunteer will provide you with information regarding stress anxiety, anxiety based depressions, and the services we offer. Please hold until we connect to you. Fuck this, What am I going to tell them? Like? My house is being haunted by the ghost of a fucking murderer. I think they've got bigger things to worry about right now. Yeah? Hi, how are you doing? Is it? Is it that long?

How are you doing? Yeah? Right? Can you believe it? Yeah? Well, no, I'm all right. I was just you know, I've just been calling friends, you know, and making sure everyone's all right. You're keeping all right? You good? Yeah good? I was just wondering you still got that our house and the back of your garden. The thing is yeah, I've just my whole flat is just completely flooded, and you know, I just wondered if it was she's actually she's in Scotland. No,

she wanted to stay up there with her dad. No, it's not like that. I did want to speak. Hello. Did you listen to it? Yeah? I did, But I can really tell what was going on? Well I told you what was going on, right, Well, anyway, there's something else this morning. So I was going through the files on the recorder and there's a fucking file there that I didn't record, and well, just listen to it. That is me asleep in my bedroom. But wait, did you hear that? If I'm being honest, I can't really tell

what it is. But if that's me snoring, and who the fuck recorded that? There's someone else's voice in my room and I am asleep? Like any cars that number? Yeah, yes, I called it and I told him like there's something fucking weird going on in the house and they didn't believe me. And that was it. And how's how's chairman? Well, yeah that's another thing as well, because I haven't seen him for a couple of days now. Hello, Yeah, hi, um, look, I don't even know who I need to speak to

here or how this might work. But I really need to talk to someone about about this thing. Yeah, of course it's it's Ben. Hi. Yeah, no, I don't. I'm not a regular at all. Um. I don't think I've ever been to church, to be honest, Well, basically, I think my house might be haunted. And I just thought maybe you guys, you know, if you believe in God, then maybe you believe in this other stuff. Look, I'm not putting your leg honestly, Well all sorts. Really, things

have been breaking. I'm hearing strange noises, there's this baby crying all the time, and and the other day I think it seemed like someone had been in the house. But yeah, I live on my own. Is there any chance that someone maybe could come out, maybe the vicara or something. I just don't know what to do, and I just thought, I don't know, maybe someone could do an exorcism or something. We don't. I don't think a zoom consultation is going to cut it, to be honest, Look,

just just just forget about it. It's fine. I'm sorry to bother you, all right, mum, Yeah, no, I'm fine. Yeah, obviously, I'm I'm I'm fine. I was just wanting to see how you're doing. Oh good, how's granddad? M okay, okay. I don't know if you're getting this, but i'm hearing the footsteps again. Mm hmm hello, what what is that? What is it? What is it? What is the frank? Okay, the funck was that? No? H who? Who h