A Severe Mercy | Nadim Ednan-Laperouse OBE
Inspired... with Simon Guillebaud
Great Lakes Outreach
4.9 • 663 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Nadim was a successful entrepreneur, happily married, and with two wonderful children. But the dream life was shattered when he took his daughter Natasha and her best friend on holiday to France. Tragically, Natasha had an anaphylactic reaction shortly after takeoff after ingesting sesame seeds in her sandwich, from which she never recovered.
Subsequently, Nadim and his wife Tanya founded the Natasha Allergy Research Foundation, and their campaigning - for which they were both awarded an OBE by the Queen - has led to changes in the law.
Nadim’s journey to faith through this horrendous experience is deeply touching, and God has opened doors of real influence and opportunity for him to witness gently to the Prince of Peace in many different contexts. I spent much of this interview in tears, so it’s a different flavour from previous episodes, but deeply moving and inspiring.
Do check out www.narf.org.uk
And you can contact Nadim at nadim.el[@]narf.org.uk
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| 0:00.0 | laboring with her breathing really difficult she was red all over her face was really swollen her lips were peeling outwards |
| 0:09.3 | the last thing she said to me was daddy daddy help me i can't breathe and then she just fell and slump forward |
| 0:18.2 | from ashes can come beauty you know there's many of these sorts of phrases. |
| 0:22.8 | And that's really what has happened to myself, you know, and our family. |
| 0:28.5 | Welcome, everybody. This is Simon Gilbo with Inspired. So good to be back for another fantastic |
| 0:33.1 | week. Listen, if you're new to us, Inspired is all about meeting different mates of mind |
| 0:36.3 | from across the spectrum of life experience. |
| 0:39.3 | And it's basically to counteract the relentless bombardment that we get in the press of negativity and stuff that induces fear and cynicism and angst. |
| 0:49.3 | And yeah, what we need to hear is, is God being at work through different people's lives. And this week, it's |
| 0:55.7 | going to be really, really special. Often we're hearing stories of, well, I mean, in recent weeks, |
| 1:01.6 | we've had nutty, miraculous stuff and sort of witchcraft stories and a whole range. This is |
| 1:07.9 | going to be different. I first came across Nadim on Radio 4 and I was driving the car and I was weeping as I heard his story. |
| 1:16.6 | And this is going to be a very moving week, emotional, deeply inspiring. So I want to give you a heads up on that one. |
| 1:25.6 | And I want to welcome, I'm very glad to her with us. |
| 1:28.9 | Nadim Edmund La Perouse, how you doing, bro? |
| 1:31.9 | I'm good actually. |
| 1:32.9 | I'm really looking forward to this. |
| 1:34.2 | I had said some prayers earlier and my son, our son and my wife Tanya were also prayed about this. |
| 1:40.7 | So you know, feeling good. |
| 1:41.7 | Excellent. |
| 1:42.5 | So Nadim was with Tanya. They were both |
| 1:45.6 | awarded together and OBE for their work as they set up the Natasha Allergy Research Foundation. |
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