Ep. 138 – HELEN GLOVER MBE/STEVE BACKSHALL (PART ONE) - A Conversation With… – INTERVIEW SPECIAL

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4.6 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Ep. 138 – HELEN GLOVER MBE/STEVE BACKSHALL (PART ONE) - A Conversation With… – INTERVIEW SPECIAL

The first of two interviews with Helen Glover and Steve Backshall. This week Tim Lovejoy talks to naturalist, writer and TV presenter, Steve Backshall. They discuss building their own house, learning and competing judo/martial arts in Japan, being married to a very successful Olympian, how he began in wildlife television, the worst creatures to be bitten by and his groundbreaking new TV show and book, Expedition.

Steve’s books, including his new one are available here - http://www.stevebackshall.com/books

Steve is on Twitter - @SteveBackshall

And Instagram - @backshall.steve

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dear Lovejoy podcast, sponsored by a cooker, spelt quicker, pronounced cooker.
0:06.9	And today is another Dear Lovejoy special.
0:11.3	Yes, today we're having a conversation with Steve Baxhaw.
0:14.7	I love Steve.
0:16.8	He's one of my favorite people to interview just because I'm so envious of his life.
0:20.7	He travels around the world, going on expeditions, going on adventures. he's one of my favorite people to interview just because i'm so envious of his life he travels
0:21.1	around the world going on expeditions going on uh adventures and um just seeing things that i would
0:27.3	love to see uh i thoroughly enjoyed this conversation we covered so much from his um time doing
0:33.2	martial arts to uh all his little adventures around. I say little.
0:39.1	That's the...
0:40.3	He's not exactly just going to the shop, is he?
0:42.3	Understatement of the year.
0:43.6	For a baguette.
0:44.4	Absolutely huge.
0:45.6	And we talk about, you know, putting his life at risk and everything else.
0:50.5	What was the other things we were discussing?
0:52.3	We discussed something.
0:52.8	Well, actually, we should point out this is actually part one of a part two,
0:57.4	uh, love joy,
0:58.3	dear lovejoy special, isn't it?
0:59.5	Oh yeah, because when I asked Steve to do the podcast, he said,
1:02.7	would you fancy doing my wife as well, Helen Glover?
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