Summary
When Will Darby left school in 2007 his peers all headed to university but Will wanted something different so he went travelling in search of remote, unknown, and unridden waves to surf. Will built himself an idyllic life in the Solomon Islands but after just a few weeks everything came crashing down in an event that would create a lifelong bond with the island and its inhabitants.
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| 0:00.0 | Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I want to tell you why I love podcasting. |
| 0:04.7 | Hi, my name's Tommy Dixon, and I make podcasts for the BBC. |
| 0:08.4 | I'm a big fan of stories, always loved a good book. |
| 0:11.4 | But when I started commuting for my first job, I discovered podcasts. |
| 0:15.4 | I was blown away by how a creative idea and the right mixture of sounds could take you into |
| 0:19.2 | a whole new world full of incredible stories. You know, the type that make you go, wow. And that kind of inspired me to |
| 0:25.2 | give it a go myself, which to cut a long story short led to a BBC training scheme and a whole |
| 0:30.0 | new career giving other people that exact same feeling. So if you want to hear amazing stories |
| 0:34.2 | that make you go wow like I did, they're just a tap or click away on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:40.8 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Hello and welcome to the series that hears from those |
| 0:47.6 | who've been swept up in a moment, seen the world around them shift and ended up in a different |
| 0:53.1 | place altogether. That certainly |
| 0:55.4 | happened with today's guest. Will Darby left school to travel more than 9,000 miles and |
| 1:01.7 | see what life was like on the other side of the globe. Hello, Will. Hello. Thanks so much |
| 1:06.7 | for coming in. Tell me first about growing up. You lived on a farm in Norfolk. What was your |
| 1:13.1 | childhood like? Was it hard work? It normally is on a farm. I just remember it was being great |
| 1:17.0 | fun. Growing up on a farm, it was a strawberry farm. So I grew up with my two sisters there. |
| 1:21.8 | I couldn't ask for more, really. Had a great time. And school? When I was 13, I went off to boarding school and was there for five years. |
| 1:30.4 | It was a fantastic place to be. |
| 1:32.2 | I did fine at school, but I was never that interested in taking a subject on to study at university or anything like that. |
| 1:39.6 | All I wanted to do was go travelling, so I was always daydreaming a bit. |
| 1:43.7 | You were the one looking out |
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