Get to Know Lowri Morgan

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

Rebel Girls

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids, Education For Kids

4.5 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Lowri Morgan is an accomplished broadcaster, ultra-athlete and motivational speaker. She has competed in some of the toughest endurance races in the World, lived with indigenous tribes and become one of just 100 people to dive to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean to visit the wreck of Titanic. As a result she has won numerous awards including: Best Presenter and Producer (BAFTA Cymru), the Spirit of the Festival Award (Celtic Media Festival), and winner of the Media Category (National Adventure Awards). This episode of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is produced by Elena Favilli, Joy Fowlkes, and Meg Murnane. Sound design and original theme music by Elettra Bargiacchi. Mattia Marcelli was the sound mixer. Special thanks to Clio McClure for coordinating our credit readers and interviewers. A big thanks to the Lowri Morgan and the whole Rebel Girls team who make this podcast possible. Stay Rebel! [This episode originally aired on 1/17/2023]

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0:00.0	This is Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls.
0:05.0	Welcome to Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls.
0:09.0	I'm Adelaide from Chicago.
0:13.0	I'm eight years old, and I'm interviewing Larry Morgan,
0:18.0	who was the narrator of last week's episode of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls.
0:23.3	If you haven't heard last week's episode, now is a good time to go back and check it out.
0:32.8	Lowry, would you like to introduce yourself? I'm Lowry Morgan. I'm a television presenter specializing in sport and adventure.
0:40.3	I've created series following some of my adventures around the world
0:44.3	and I've lived with tribes for documentary series.
0:48.3	I'm also an ultra runner, an adventurer.
0:50.3	I'm only one of around 100 people in the world who have visited the site of Titanic.
0:55.7	But I'm also a speaker, so I go around schools and companies and universities talking about my
1:01.9	experiences and sharing the lessons that I've learned on the trails.
1:06.8	What was your motivation to start running?
1:10.1	Ever since a child, I've been running. It's who I am,
1:13.9	it's in my blood, it's what I enjoy doing. But my first marathon was the New York Marathon back in
1:21.1	1995. And four years earlier, I'd been told that I wouldn't be able to run properly again
1:27.0	following a serious sporting accident.
1:29.3	But after leaving the hospital in a wheelchair, I decided that I wanted to run more than anything.
1:35.3	And I made a commitment to finish a marathon, even if it meant crawling towards the finishing line.
1:41.3	And it motivated me to do whatever was necessary to get to cross that finish line.
1:48.0	I trained really hard, starting first of all on crutches, walking from lamp post to lamp post,
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