I am very pleased to say that the West Yorkshire Archive service have accepted the Back-Chat Collection interviews into their permanent archives thus ensuring their accessibility to the public for many generations to come.

You can hear this interview by simply clicking the West Yorkshire Archive Link where you will find all of the Back-Chat Collection interviews listed in alphabetical order along with captioned photographs.

If you would like to contact The Back-Chat Collection please do email me at carloharrison1947@gmail.com.

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Molly Matheron

Born

August 2006 at Princess Alexander Hospital, Harlow, Essex

Background

Grew up and lives in Old Harlow.

Date of Interview

23rd July 2021

“Have just listened to Molly’s Back Chat it’s great, consent given.”

Joe Matheron (Father) 6th August 2021

I have been wanting to get a young person’s view on these strange times we are living in for a while so I was pleased when Molly agreed to be interviewed a few weeks before her 15th birthday. This interview is everything I had hoped for.
This self-assured young woman fills in a lot of blanks about what it’s like to be at school heading towards your GCSEs in a pandemic. She is frank about how young people viewed the coronavirus outbreak when it first reared its ugly head in the UK and their feelings now as vaccinations are being offered.
We talked about a wide range of subjects from Boris Johnson to university fees, Greta Thunberg to shopping on line.
I didn’t mention it in the interview but I am very proud to say that Molly is my granddaughter.

Interviewer: Carlo Harrison

Cataloguer: Fiona Quinton


HTML5 Audio Player

You can listen to the entire recording by clicking the start arrow or, you can move the slider to one of times shown for the headings opposite, they are a guide to the many things we chatted about.
Coronavirus – Effect On School Exams & Online Schooling
00.50
Coronavirus – Young People
11.10
School Bubbles – Wearing Masks – Testing
13.55
Vaccinations
21.20
Boris Johnson & Government
22.05
Lockdown
24.00
Parents – Joe (Software) – Sarah (Pharmaceutical Marketing)
25.25
Sisters – Beth (10) – Isabel (13)
26.15
Sixth Form & University – Psychology
27.05
Student Loan
28.10
Old Harlow
30.00
Bullying At School
31.10
Social Media – Discord – TikTok – Instagram
33.40
Holidays – France – Greece
37.00
Christmas
40.45
Interests – Gaming – PC’s
41.30
Homework
45.20
Shopping – On Line
46.35
Films & Music
49.40
Racialism
53.00
Donald Trump
57.15
Greta Thunberg
58.10
Message To The future
59.25

 

Please take into consideration when listening to these interviews that the meaning of language changes over time and that interviewees have not intended to cause offence by anything said which now may be thought to be unacceptable.

Recording this social history, chatting to different people about a whole host of subjects has been a real pleasure, such an interesting and I think worthwhile project for people to listen to both now and in years to come.

Thank you for visiting this website.

Carlo Harrison