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Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

180: PAUL FOOT 2026: THE PINCH-OF-SALT PATH

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

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4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Chloe Hadjimatheou of the Observer looked into a beloved, million-selling bestseller, The Salt Path, and found the book arguably fit the 'fiction' shelves better. 

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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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