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ποΈ 18 July 2021
β±οΈ 35 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
0:04.9 | Hello, I'm Lauren LeVern and this is the Desert Island Disks Podcast. |
0:08.7 | Every week I ask my guests to choose the 8 tracks, book and luxury they'd want to take with them |
0:14.0 | if they were cast away to a desert island. |
0:16.5 | And for right reasons, the music is shorter than the original broadcast. |
0:21.2 | I hope you enjoy listening. |
0:44.8 | My castaway this week is the Olympic gold medalist, Dame Jessica Ennis Hill, |
0:49.5 | one of the most successful and influential women in British sporting history. |
0:54.0 | She's a European, Olympic and three-telling world champion and has won more international medals |
1:00.3 | than any other heptathlete. |
1:02.4 | But it was in 2012 that she went from sporting hero to household name. |
1:06.8 | She was literally the poster girl for the London Olympics and walked into the stadium, |
1:11.8 | carrying the weight of the nation's expectations on her shoulders. |
1:15.6 | She emerged with a place in the history books. |
1:18.8 | Her gold medal win was the crowning glory of Super Saturday, |
1:22.6 | when Team GB won three athletics gold medals in less than an hour. |
1:27.9 | Her potential was spotted early. |
1:29.9 | When she was 10, her mother enrolled her in a sports club at home in Sheffield |
1:33.9 | as a way of burning off excess energy. |
1:36.2 | Her ability and determination coupled with the occasional monetary incentive from her |
1:41.0 | granddad meant that by just 13 she was competing in national events. |
1:45.7 | Her granddad, by the way, had to renegotiate their deal |
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