180: PAUL FOOT 2026: THE PINCH-OF-SALT PATH
Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast
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🗓️ 30 May 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the last of this year's Paul Foot Award shortlist entries. |
| 0:05.6 | We're interviewing six brilliant hacks who've produced fantastic investigative campaigning stories, |
| 0:11.1 | all of which have been shortlisted for this year's award. |
| 0:13.6 | So let's find out the final story shortlisted for an award this year. |
| 0:18.6 | Page 94, the Private Eye podcast. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Chloe Hedgemotho and I work for the Observer newspaper. |
| 0:25.5 | Okay, and what is the story that's brought you to the Poor Foot Award? |
| 0:28.0 | So what's brought me here is the true story of the true story of the salt path. |
| 0:33.3 | So this is a memoir that was sold as unflinchingly honest by Penguin, written by a woman called |
| 0:39.9 | Raina Wint about her and her husband, who are beset by misfortune. First, they lose their home |
| 0:46.2 | after a close friend sort of tricks them out of it and they have it repossessed. And then the very |
| 0:50.6 | same week, they find out that the husband, Moth, is suffering from a terminal |
| 0:55.0 | neurological disease. And instead of being sort of absolutely devastated by this news, they |
| 1:01.5 | take the quite extraordinary decision to walk the entire southwest coastal path of Britain 630 miles. |
| 1:08.8 | And the memoir is the story of this walk and along the way somehow the effort |
| 1:15.1 | of walking and of being in nature makes moth better the the symptoms of his disease reverse and at the |
| 1:23.7 | same time Rainer discovers that her real home is with her husband and the love that they share. |
| 1:29.7 | And so this was a hugely, hugely successful memoir. |
| 1:33.3 | Yes, a lot of homes up and down the country contain a copy of Salt Path. |
| 1:36.8 | I've got a copy at home, which a friend gave me and said this is a really fantastic book. |
| 1:43.7 | It's a very moving true story |
| 1:45.5 | how did it come to your attention why are we talking about this memoir in the context of the |
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