Cookie

Part Three: Confront the Power

How would you cope if you spent 14 years in prison for a crime you did not commit?  How would you pass the time? Who would stand by you? What would you miss the most?

What happens when Cookie is released? From Love Island to prison reform.

Credits:

Produced and edited by Lizzie Norton, May Robson and Naima Sakande.

All the music featured in this episode is licensed by Audioblocks.

Our thanks to Jake Tyler who created our logo.

Extras

ONE SENTENCE

If the gods came to me

and offered me a branch

I’d gladly meet them, Buggles

and I would take the chance

if they told me I had

just this single day 

to write but one sentence to you

what, my son, would I say?

would I tell you how your smile

once set my world alight?

or how I still cry for you

alone and darkened each night?

would I tell you the sun

in ignorance, still tries to shine?

but its glows are nothing

now your face it cannot find

would I tell you of rain

and how it DOES still fall?

compared to my tears

its wetness is nothing at all

should I tell you of your loss

and what it means to me?

of how strongly I feel you absence

in our shrunken family?

perhaps I would write

of all the love I hold for you

of how your baby giggles

are the memory to pull me through

if the gods came to me

and offered me a branch

I’d gladly meet them, Buggles

and I would take the chance

I’d take the sun rays

and add them to my heart

Sprinkling them with rain’s tears

I would slowly start…

I miss the sun, rain, laughter

and every single star

and my one sentence would be

I miss everything you are