'It started as a perfect wedding day'

Life Changing

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6 • 735 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

It is the summer of 2008, and a bride and groom have just stepped out of a carriage drawn by two white horses. The sun is out, the bridesmaids are wearing beautiful dresses, and everyone has drinks in hands. The day has gone smoothly for the wedding party. But for carriage driver Emily King – things are about to take a terrifying turn, as a chase begins.

Years later, Emily tells Dr Sian Williams how she fought to survive – and why the scarring incident gave her “superpowers”.

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0:00.0	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast, but this is about something else you might enjoy.
0:05.4	My name's Katie Lecky and I'm an assistant commissioner for on demand music on BBC Sounds.
0:10.8	The BBC has an incredible musical heritage and culture and as a music lover, I love being part of that.
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0:22.4	helping you nod off, boogie in your kitchen, or even just a moment of calm. And they're all put
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0:35.0	check out BBC Sounds.
0:41.2	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:47.4	Welcome to the series that captures one extraordinary event in someone's life which transforms everything. This week, the successful businesswoman, the summer wedding and the shocking
0:53.0	moment that ransacked it all.
0:56.1	It's 2008 and Emily King is living in Wiltshire with a husband, her horses and her dogs.
1:02.0	She works hard and so do those horses.
1:04.5	They're pulling the carriage that transport newlyweds to wedding receptions.
1:09.0	A busy, happy country life then, and she's here to tell us about it.
1:13.2	Hello, Emily. Hello. Nice to see you. Just paint a picture of that life for us because it sounds
1:19.0	idyllic. It was. It was truly charming. I went to agricultural college. I knew that I wanted to work
1:25.7	with horses all my life. And I embedded a life of
1:30.7	country living. And day by day, we built an incredible business of doing horse and carriages for
1:37.0	weddings, proms. And it was just going from strength to strength. And it sounds as well, if you're
1:42.5	doing weddings with a horse and carriage,
1:44.8	you are with people at a really important part of their life, a special moment. Can you remember
1:50.4	many of those moments? It was really charming. Being at people's magical days is such a privilege.
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