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Danielle speaks to Alika, who was sectioned twice in his early 20s. Alika describes the experience of being detained by the police, something that he found both scary and humiliating. They discuss how the way you’re treated during a detention makes a big difference to your mental state.

Danielle decides to meet the professionals who are often on the scene when somebody is sectioned. She talks with Kevin Stone, an Approved Mental Health Professional and hears from David Vass, a police constable working on the mental health triage team in Hertfordshire.

Presented by Danielle Manning, Sectioned is a five-part series that explores what it means to be sectioned under the mental health act and how it can change your life. Hear the stories of people with lived experience of being sectioned and discover what it means to have your freedom taken away for your own safety, and the safety of others.

Produced by Maddie Hickish. The Executive Producer is Nick Minter. It is a Wisebuddah production for BBC Radio 1.

In the final episode of Random Men Pay My Bills, Goddess Jade reveals that she’s never had a proper sit down chat with one of her slaves.

So that’s exactly what’s about to happen.

Speaking to Steve, she finds out exactly why he’s willing to hand over his hard earned cash to people like Goddess Jade.

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*Goddess Jade and Steve’s names have been changed to keep their identities anonymous.

In Part 5 of Random Men Pay My Bills, Goddess Jade reveals a darker side of financial domination: blackmail contracts. An agreement that allows dominatrixes to release personal information and photos to loved ones if their slave doesn’t pay them on time.

Riyadh also asks her about whether she believes Findom can be an addiction, and whether she has the experience to know when to stop if things get too serious.

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*Goddess Jade's name has been changed to keep her identity anonymous.

In episode 4, Goddess Jade has another surprise for us. She has a boyfriend. A boyfriend who knows all about her work as a financial dominatrix but isn’t too happy about it.

She also flips the tables on Riyadh by making him her slave for the afternoon at a shop meet. How will Riyadh cope being told what to do? And even more importantly, will he enjoy it?

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*Goddess Jade's name has been changed to keep her identity anonymous.

In episode 3 of Random Men Pay My Bills, Riyadh discovers that not all of her financial dominatrix work is done online.

Sometimes she meets her slaves in real life too.

Taking Riyadh along to her local shopping centre, she explains all about cash meets where her subbies turn up to place banknotes directly into her hands. And she’s got one booked in the next few hours.

Back at her flat, the pair discuss just how safe meeting strangers from online actually is.

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*Goddess Jade's name has been changed to keep her identity anonymous.

In episode 2 of Random Men Pay My Bills, Riyadh Khalaf joins Goddess Jade at one of her favourite restaurants to discuss just how many of her friends and family know about her life as a Financial Dominatrix

She also shares another way she makes money - by posting her receipts for things like fancy dinners on her Twitter and asking for reimbursement.

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*Goddess Jade's name has been changed to keep her identity anonymous.

In episode 1 of Random Men Pay My Bills, we meet Goddess Jade* who gives presenter Riyadh Khalaf exclusive access into her world as a dominatrix.

Meeting her at her home, Riyadh discovers all the basics about a fetish that, in theory, involves submissive slaves sending cash to dominatrixes for absolutely nothing in return.

Jade explains how she first got into Findom before inviting Riyadh to have a go at messaging some of her doting slaves back.

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*Goddess Jade's name has been changed to keep her identity anonymous.

Dan and James find themselves in church with their new friend, Granny. They definitely didn’t see that coming when they started the series. Oh – and they meet Hodor from Game of Thrones! His real name is Kristian Nairn. He tells them what it was like growing up gay in Northern Ireland and why he thinks things have got better for LGBTQ+ people there.

Producer: Phoebe Keane

Dan and James come face to face with someone in Northern Ireland who offers “talking therapy” – what many call “gay conversion therapy” – to people who don’t want to be gay. For James, who’s gay, it’s a difficult encounter. They also hear Vicky Beeching’s story. Vicky spent years trying to change her sexuality. Doing so, she says, made her seriously ill.

Producer: From Gay to Non Gay

Dan Hudson and James Barr present a podcast called ‘A Gay and a Non-Gay’. They’ve received messages from listeners asking them to travel to Northern Ireland to see what life is like for LGBTQ+ people there. So they head to Belfast where they find out why the church is a part of the story. And they discover something called ‘gay conversion therapy’.

Producer: Phoebe Keane