Cor Hutton: The Quadruple Amputee Who Found Her Feet

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In 2013, businesswoman and mum Cor Hutton was given just a five percent chance of survival after contracting pneumonia that developed into sepsis. She pulled through, but lost both hands and her legs below the knee.

In this episode of Full Disclosure, James O’Brien speaks to Cor about her extraordinary journey- from relearning how to live as a quadruple amputee to becoming the first person in Scotland to receive a double hand transplant. They discuss her founding of the charity Finding Your Feet, the physical and emotional resilience behind her recovery, and the mountains- literal and metaphorical- she has climbed since.

Powerful, moving and often laced with humour, this conversation reveals Cor not just as a survivor, but as a campaigner, mother and relentless optimist- someone who proves that lives can be rebuilt and transformed, no matter how impossible the odds.

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0:00.0	Now time to thank our partner of this episode, RNIB, the Royal National Institute of Blind People.
0:06.8	It's hard to imagine how it would feel to suddenly lose your sight, not being able to see your family anymore,
0:12.4	navigate the world around you, or enjoy a simple pleasure such as reading a book.
0:16.5	For any of us, it would be truly devastating, which is why support from RNIB is invaluable.
0:23.2	And you can do your bit too. Throughout October, RNIB can help you make a will, free of charge, with their free will-writing services.
0:30.6	All they ask in return is for you to consider leaving them a gift, although there is no obligation to do so.
0:36.5	We all need a will, so this could be
0:38.5	the perfect time to make or update yours. To find out more about the free will writing service and
0:43.9	understand the difference a gift in your will could make to blind and partially cited people,
0:48.9	download the free will guide at rnib.org.org.uk slash lasting gift. That's rnib.org.org.com slash lasting gift.
1:00.9	It's Joanne McNally and Vogue Williams here. Our podcast, my therapist, ghosted me, celebrates the
1:05.7	special therapy that only true friends can offer, i.e. laughing with you and laughing at you.
1:11.9	Precisely. This week we're supported by married at first sight,
1:15.3	with more total strangers getting to know each other after getting married.
1:19.9	The perfect time to do that.
1:22.1	Stream the brand new series on Channel 4 and watch live on E4.
1:26.0	And listen to my therapist ghosted me on Global Player.
1:31.3	This is a Global Player original podcast.
1:41.7	Hello and welcome to Full Disclosure.
1:49.7	A podcast project conceived to let me spend more time with interesting people than I would ever get on the radio.
1:54.4	Cor Hutton, welcome, doctor, we should say, Dr. Corrine Hutton.
2:02.2	This is going to be a bit different, this interview, partly because you're here as part of Global's make some noise fundraising efforts and partly because, I mean, I don't know where to start. Your life has been
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