Linford Christie

Russell Howard’s Five Brilliant Things

Avalon

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.5 • 567 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Did Linford Christie take part in the Dad’s race at his kids’s school sports day? Russell and Linford discuss what it’s like to be bloody quick, what it’s like to win an Olympic gold medal, and why Linford used to growl like a tiger at his competitors on the starting blocks. It’s a really interesting and intimate chat with a British legend, seeing a side to him that we rarely get to see. It’s really worth watching the documentary all about Linford’s career and life. It’s called simply ‘Linford’, which is on BBC iPlayer, or if you’re abroad it’s on iPlayer with a VPN (wink wink). It really tells the story well, with fascinating insights and at times it gets pretty emotional. You don’t need me to give you a link to iPlayer. If you can’t find that with a search engine then you deserve to have your internet taken away from you. Russell is back out on the road doing all sorts of bits and bobs, with Canada coming up, also Sweden, Norway…check out his movements at Russell-howard.co.uk That’s all for this week. I’m off for a quick 13 minute nap. That’s the golden number apparently for efficient napping. I’ll let you know how it goes. Goodbye for now, old friend. Producer: Dan Atkinson Line Producer: Daisy Knight Exec Producer: James Taylor Composer: Fat Lady Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Now, are all the traitors present?
0:02.5	Let's get started, shall we?
0:04.5	From rags to riches.
0:05.8	I'm so sick of this.
0:07.0	Working like a dog and being treated worse.
0:09.1	Yorkshire to New York.
0:10.7	Poor climbers, you and me.
0:12.4	A life dedicated to revenge.
0:14.4	Let's make this an occasion to remember.
0:16.5	A woman of substance on Channel 4.
0:19.2	Stream now.
0:28.4	A woman of Substance on Channel 4. Stream now. Hello!
0:29.3	This is very exciting indeed.
0:31.5	My guest today is one of the fastest man who's ever lived.
0:35.2	He's Britain's most successful ever male sprinter. He went to three
0:39.4	Olympic games and he won the gold 100 meters, 92. It's Linford Christie and this is his Wonderbox.
0:52.8	So I'm very excited to meet you. Thank you so much for coming on the podcast. Now the first thing, it's the first time we've met and I was waiting for you outside and I know you're naturally competitive. And you were just walking along with people and I couldn't help me notice. overtook two people and I was I was curious do
1:13.9	you Linford Christie do you still have little races with people in your head I always do
1:19.2	I know I can see it but I did I race cars on the road you know I'm walking along and you know I'm
1:25.5	yeah you know trying to see if I can get to a certain mark before the cars and everything else.
1:29.8	And people, yeah, I mean, it's even like when I, you know, I'm competing and I'm racing, they, they take you out to, you know, from the room into the stadium.
1:38.8	Yeah.
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