Summary
Ambitious police officer Clodagh Dunlop, 35, was used to dealing with emergency situations - until it was her own. Whilst training to run a 6-minute mile, her journey took a terrifying turn. Clodagh found herself trapped in her own body, hearing the conversations around her but unable to communicate.
Speaking with Dr Sian Williams, she explains how she found the strength to make a remarkable breakthrough.
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| 0:05.4 | My name's Katie Lecky and I'm an assistant commissioner for on demand music on BBC Sounds. |
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| 0:43.0 | Hello and welcome. |
| 0:48.6 | Emergency responders are trained to help us during some of the toughest moments of our lives, |
| 0:53.2 | but how difficult is it if that's your job and that moment is happening to you? |
| 1:00.7 | That was the case with Cloder Dunlop, who eight years ago had a successful career as an officer in the police service of Northern Ireland. |
| 1:08.3 | She was in her 30s, fit, active, loved her work, but everything changed on Easter Monday, 2015. |
| 1:14.1 | Cloda had just sat down at home and was tucking into a chocolate Easter egg when something came out of the blue, altering the world as she knew it, and offering her a completely |
| 1:18.8 | different perspective on her life and her job. |
| 1:22.2 | Clodagh's with me now from our Belfar studio. |
| 1:25.0 | Hello, Clodagh. |
| 1:26.0 | Good morning. |
| 1:26.9 | Good morning. You grew up in Northern Ireland, |
| 1:29.4 | didn't you? What was it like growing up there? I did. I grew up in the 80s in Northern Ireland, |
| 1:34.9 | so we had still the troubles ongoing. My uncle was a servant police officer in Northern Ireland, |
| 1:43.3 | and he was actually murdered in 1976 |
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