BBC Radio Leeds contacted me on Friday last week, asking me to talk on their breakfast radio show yesterday before the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire regions Inside Out programme yesterday evening.
The interview covered why I do it, whether I visit different jumping points, and my feelings about an audio clip of Joel Scott’s mother, Lorraine describing how the loss of her son has affected her. It felt like an impossibly difficult question, one that I don’t think given any amount of thought and time, I could have answered in a way that suggests tombstoning can be safe and still maintain a level of sensitivity to Lorraine Scott’s situation. It was a tragic story, and I always question whether offering possible causes of the accident could be justified to help someone else think twice of the danger involved.
My post about the incident (19-year-old falls from rocks) is still available on this site.
The radio interview was just after 7am and can be heard 1 hour and 9 minutes in to the 3 hour breakfast show available on the BBC iPlayer.
Inside Out is a regional programme and was not available to me at the time of broadcast; but thanks to the BBC iPlayer, anyone interested in the programme can also watch it now.
Jamie Coulson investigates ‘tombstoning’ at a Yorkshire beauty spot and finds out why an east coast town is taking legal steps to stop it.
source: BBC iPlayer programme information
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