I Survived A Plane Crash

The Modern Mann

Matt Hill

Relationships, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 753 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Perry Burns was just 13 when his once-in-a-lifetime trip on an RAF plane ended in a devastating crash. It left him with burns over nearly half his body. In this gripping conversation with Olly, Perry relives the moment he thought he’d died; the fireball he escaped; and the chain of miracles that saved his life... He shares the pain of recovery, the power of one relentless teacher, and how love helped him rebuild. —----------------------- Meanwhile, in The Zeitgeist, Ollie Peart is on a mission to Make Running Fun. While apps like VoiceMap offer self-guided audio tours you can create (and sell!), and GoodGym adds community purpose to your jog, his true champion is Zombies, Run!, a thrilling, GPS-triggered story game where undead hordes chase you into cardio greatness... and, it seems, makes Olly Mann sweat buckets around the Regent’s Park Running Track. —----------------------- Elsewhere, Alix Fox - fresh from National AIDS Trust fundraiser Drag Raise - is back to answer listener’s sex and relationships questions in The Foxhole. This month: What actually happens at sex-themed swingers holiday resorts, like Hedonism in Jamaica, and what should prospective travellers bring with them to the hotel? With the help of Sex Advice for Seniors’ Suzanne Noble, Alix reveals all… —----------------------- Finally, our record of the month is the folktastic ‘Cow Song’ from The New Eves 🐄. Check it out on our Spotify playlist now! Oh, and here are some useful links you should totally be clicking: 🎢 ROLLERCOASTER - UNIVERSAL’S BEDFORDSHIRE JOURNEY. Olly’s new four-part BBC series about the Universal Studios project in Bedford can be binged here. 🍻 BUY US A BEER. We are only able to make this show thanks to your donations. If you can afford to, pretty PLEASE support our independent podcast here. ✉️ SEND US YOUR LETTERS. If you have a challenge for Ollie, a question for Alix, some feedback for Olly, or you’d like to share your story on a future edition of the show - fill out our Feedback form here. —----------------------- … and we’ll see you (with our annual How To Be A Dad special) on 10th August. x Presenter: Olly Mann. Contributors: Perry Burns, Alix Fox, Ollie Peart, The New Eves. Producer: Matt Hill. Theme Music: ‘Skies Over Cairo’ by Django Django. Artwork: Podcast Discovery. Copyright: Olly Mann / Rethink Audio 2025 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, man fans, Oli Mann here with The Modern Man, your monthly roundup of trends, technology, music, relationship advice, and amazing life stories.
0:09.1	Here's what's coming up today.
0:10.9	It doesn't matter how badly injured you are.
0:14.2	You have to pick yourself up.
0:15.8	You have to get on with it.
0:18.0	And I think I probably owe the rest of my life to her.
0:21.6	How does being in a plane crash affect the rest of your life?
0:24.6	I talked to my cousin Perry about the life-changing experience he had, age 13.
0:30.6	Plus...
0:31.6	Some people had a wonderful liberated time, other people could not wait to get the hell home.
0:38.4	We're all going on a sex holiday, or are we?
0:42.0	Alex Fox with advice for those who are, and Ollie Peart gamifies his run.
0:47.2	That's all to come on this edition of The Modern Man.
0:53.1	But first, your letters and somebody who's had a letter from the King.
0:57.0	Since we last spoke, is Tim Shaw, our guest.
1:00.5	In our May episode, No More Magnolia, you will remember that Tim is the co-founder of hospital rooms,
1:06.9	the charity that links up artists with mental health wards.
1:10.3	Well, he has been honoured in the King's
1:12.3	birthday honours list. So he is now Tim Shaw, MBE. So congratulations, Tim. That's brilliant.
1:19.3	And cool for us to have one of our guests basically ennobled the moment we put them on the podcast.
1:24.5	I'm sure that's a coincidence. Also, following our road trip last month,
1:28.8	we've had this in from man fan Joe Wong, who says, Ollie, I was absolutely gutted to hear that
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