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.

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Michelle Lesley Teale

Born

September 1961 Otley Hospital

Died

25th December 2021

Background

Grew up in Rawdon & Guiseley and now lives in Leicester.

Date of Interview

2nd March 2021

“You have my permission to share my photos and interview on line.”

Michelle Lesley Teale (9th March 2021)

If you want to know what pure positivity sounds like then sit back and listen to Michelle Teale.

Michelle has every excuse not to be positive, but she is a forwarded-looking woman who is a real inspiration to anyone facing adversity.

Her childhood was happy enough for Michelle to say she would relive it without thinking.

Donny & Marie Osmond creep into this interview, along with Tom Jones and a host of celebrities from the 1980s.

A cancer patient with a love for Real Ale – now how does that work?

Interviewer: Carlo Harrison

Cataloguer: Fiona Quinton

Sound Engineer David Myers


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.
Cancer – Family Cases – Breast Cancer
01.20
Cancer Support
16.25
TV Appearances – BBC- ITV- Sky
18.30
Coronavirus
23.10
Government – Response to Pandemic
25.50
Chemotherapy
27.55
Parents – Roy (Crompton Parkinson’s) & Marian Squires (Lollipop Lady)
29.20
Stepfather Gordon Thomas (Pram & Baby Shop Owner, Yeadon)
35.20
Blue Kitten Club – Tom Jones
37.00
Child Deaths – Siblings – Stuart – Julian – Lorraine
38.15
Childhood
42.20
Marriage / Divorce – Friends Reunited
43.20
Rawdon Littlemoor – Benton Park
45.45
School Milk & Biscuits
47.45
Childhood holidays – Scarborough – Blackpool
48.25
Childhood Christmas Games
51.55
Marriage – Honeymoon In Las Vegas
51.55
Step Children – Cameron – Ashley – Greg
52.45
Working Life – Fashion – Homebase – Hotel Reservations
56.35
Hobbies – Motorbike Pillion – Real Ales – Hotels
1.01.45
Brexit
1.03.35

 

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