Lauren Bensted
@bennylauren
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Writer https://t.co/NATWAGYRJz
London, England
Joined December 2011
Hello! I've written a piece for the Guardian about childbirth and the illness that's transformed my body and life forever. There are some jokes in it though! I think. X
‘I felt myself split into before and after’: how giving birth triggered a life-changing illness
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Loved contributing to this episode of Soul Music!
‘May you never lay your head down without a hand to hold’ - Soul Music 10.30am Sat 19 Apr @BBCRadio4 looks at @JohnMartynCom’s tender song of affection & blessing. Features Spencer Cozens @GraemeAThomson @bennylauren @solidhair Producer @elizalomas #folk
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Not enough people are talking about the INSANE opening credits of the new Lindsay Lohan romcom
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Huge congratulations to @bennylauren, Adam Grant, @paolochianta and Faebian Averies for being selected for the BBC Writers Pilot cohort this year!🥳
We are thrilled to introduce this year's BBC Writers Pilot cohort, showcasing a remarkable group of writers from all corners of the UK. Meet them all and find out which indies they are partnered with, new over on our blog >>> https://t.co/qTb7NuXnki
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Extremely buzzed about this! @5ActsProd ❤️
We are thrilled to introduce this year's BBC Writers Pilot cohort, showcasing a remarkable group of writers from all corners of the UK. Meet them all and find out which indies they are partnered with, new over on our blog >>> https://t.co/qTb7NuXnki
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Wrote about my weird pilgrimage to Barnard Castle in honour of my favourite musician John Martyn for @The_Fence_Mag ♥️
'I can think of no better immersion therapy than getting steadily steamed in a remote boozer on the outskirts of Barnard Castle with some ageing hippies...' @bennylauren went to a John Martyn festival in County Durham. https://t.co/RUddXozPHk
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what I find shocking is how every prominent figure who is intent on preserving 'family life' and 'family values' hasn't looked closer at the very foundation of both, where mothers are put through hell during childbirth
theguardian.com
With many NHS maternity services struggling and a shortage of midwives, MPs’ plan for overhaul is ambitious
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Incredible and strangely calming thread.
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Commissioners love to ask "Why now?" "Why do we need this script now?" Like I don't know pal, why do we need a 5th series of Mrs Browns Boys? Why is now a good time for another series following a well known comedian going on holibobs with his mum? I'm going to screeaaaammm
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"They were careless people Tom and Daisy. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together. And let other people clean up the mess they had made."
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"If police forces want to end a pattern of terrorised women, a pattern of women’s bodies piling up, they need to recognise how small acts can be the potential first stepping stones of men on the warpath." – this, by the ace @sophwilkinson.
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I love these.
Such quiet, aching resignation in the three poems @jobratten gives us for wave four of @iambapoet. There is hope in each of these vignettes, but you have to search for it. Honesty is here, too – whether or not we have heart enough to face it. https://t.co/O4c0Fl1JAb
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Brilliant, important reading from @BarristerAbi
The police are supposed to protect us. But Black people cannot assume they will | Abimbola Johnson
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Surprised to hear the Chancellor calling for musicians to retrain and get new jobs when you look at what a mess the singer Dido is making of NHS Track & Trace.
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Important piece from @BarristerAbi explaining, amongst other things, how the Coronavirus Act's widening of police powers has exacerbated racial profiling
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two weeks into lockdown and I can only conclude my boyfriend's job is to speak on the phone to men called Nathaniel and say the phrase "Good stuff"
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