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Feb 2025
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Introducing...Lucky Boy

The Observer
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Gareth’s whole life has been defined by a relationship he had 35 years ago when, as a 14-year-old schoolboy, he fell in love with an attractive young teacher at his school. He spent most afternoons in her bedroom and thought he was the luckiest boy in the world. But when she walked out of his life everything started to unravel. 


Lucky Boy is a new four-part series in which Chloe Hadjimatheou asks who gets to be a perpetrator and a victim.


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Reported and produced by: Chloe Hadjimatheou and Gary Marshall


Sound design: Hannah Varrall


Podcast artwork: Lola Williams


Executive producer: Basia Cummings




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