Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

My guest this week is Katy Hanrahan, who is originally from Teesside, works in special needs education and went to the University of Wales, Lampeter, in the late 1990s to study Religious Studies. We talk about Teesside, growing up against the backdrop of an industrial region whose heritage has now gone, being the first in her family to go to university, and Katy’s keenness from a young age to learn about people from different backgrounds. We also find out about what Katy’s perceptions were of returning to Teesside after spending three years in Lampeter and finding that nothing had changed. The conversation then turns to childhood memories and what she remembers doing, and we discover that Katy has always been very animal-centred, including having a passion for looking after horses from a young age, as well as why her mother pushed her into something she could thrive at.  90s dance was a big thing for Katy, and we talk about going to nightclubs, how ‘Ride on Time’ by Black Box was a seminal influence