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	Podcast:		Private Passions
	Episode:		Sister Mary Joy Langdon
	Category:		Music
	Duration:		00:48:43
	Publish Date:		2024-12-29 12:01:00
	Description:		In the hot, dry summer of 1976, Mary Joy Langdon made a very bold decision: she joined the fire service. She was the first woman in the UK to work as a professional operational fire-fighter. Then, after eight years, she changed course - and became a nun. In 1989, as Sister Mary Joy Langdon, she founded the Wormwood Scrubs Pony Centre, introducing inner-city children and young people with disabilities to horse riding. Recently it helped children traumatised by the Grenfell Tower fire. The Centre also attracted one of Britain’s most acclaimed painters – Lucian Freud - who came to draw the horses. Mary Joy's music selections include Mozart, Strauss, Bach and Grieg. Presenter Michael Berkeley Producer Clare Walker
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