Shelagh Fogarty’s name and voice will need no introduction to many listeners and subscribers - she left the BBC and became the host of the lunch to teatime Slot on LBC back in 2014 and her warm tones and confiding and empathetic yet always authoritative manner have won her record audiences. As devotees will know, she comes from a large Liverpudlian family of Irish extraction and her many siblings all seem to work as nurses or coppers which came in useful when something truly difficult happened to her and a chronic unwelcome intruder infested her life, which she has made the subject of her new hit podcast about the crime of stalking called The followers.

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