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Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

At Home: S3E06 - David Weir

Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

BBC

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Colin Murray sits down with multiple Paralympic Gold and London Marathon winner David Weir at his place, for a no-nonsense chat. Covering his career across over 20 years from how he started out, his love of music and DJing, to his big rivalries across track and road races. David also talks frankly about how he has dealt massive success at London 2012, alongside the frustration of Rio 2016. And how he is preparing and racing, now aged 40, ahead of Tokyo 2020.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's 2003 in Birmingham.

0:04.4

Doors have been slammed in your face, you're not welcome here.

0:07.1

They were capable of murder.

0:08.4

Drive-by killings, gang wars, a vigilante group that fought against Jamaica's notorious yardies.

0:15.6

The home boy thought we're not going to take this anymore.

0:17.8

We're going to be even more violent than you.

0:19.6

Before turning on each other.

0:22.0

I'm Livy Haydock and this is gangster, the story of the Burger Bar boys.

0:27.6

Listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:30.1

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:34.8

Episode

0:36.7

Episode Episode episode 6 of the third series of at home and today I'm driving down to see a man who has

0:44.9

absolutely smashed a life out of his sport for what seems like forever.

0:49.8

Six Paralympic goals, eight London marathons, some amazing rivalries and all this success

0:56.8

after a time early on in his career when he gave it all up and party harder than Lemmy

1:01.4

for Motorhead. I've always liked David where he's a straight talker, straight to the point.

1:06.4

Some people see that as abrasive, I see that as honest.

1:09.6

And I know that he'll allow me to ask all the questions I want to ask and have the conversation

1:15.0

that sums up what at home is all about.

1:17.3

Oh, the music by the way.

1:19.3

Yeah, he picked it himself.

1:21.2

It's his favorite garage tune of all time there is more to the

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