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Life Changing

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4.6 • 735 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Pip Peacock lives in Bakewell in the Peak District, a perfect spot for walking the family dog, Buster. He’d been with them for 11 years. He was originally a present for her youngest son when he was a teenager but when he found out just how much was involved in dog ownership the title of chief dog walker soon fell to Pip.

Thankfully she likes walking. This year she set herself a challenge of completing 1000 miles on foot. She finished the last mile this October, raising money for the air ambulance who had come to her rescue when she was seriously injured on another country walk with Buster back in 2019. She tells Jane Garvey how that moment left her fighting for her life.

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0:27.1	Yes, we're a comedy show that takes history seriously and then laughs at it.
0:30.5	You're dead to me.
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0:37.9	Hello, I think it's fair to say that over the last 18 months or so, so many of us have sought sanctuary, really, in going for a walk.
0:46.0	It's a comfort, it puts the wind in your sails, some colour in your cheeks, and you altogether feel better for it.
0:52.5	And that, I think, might be why this story is going to shock
0:56.2	quite a few of you. My guest is a woman called Pip Peacock, and she lives in Bakewell in the
1:01.9	Peak District, and she loved a walk, especially with her much-loved family dog Buster. This year, she
1:08.7	finished a thousand miles on foot, raising money for a charity dear to her heart.
1:13.9	But back in the September of 2019, a sunny afternoon walk with Buster proved very dangerous indeed.
1:22.1	Before we get to what happened, let's meet Pip.
1:25.2	I was born in London and I've only ever lived in the South.
1:29.3	So we'd been in Newbury about 30 years before we moved up here three years ago.
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