Replay: The Boxing Day tsunami survivor who inspired Ronaldo
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
So with the Daily on a brief break, we're replaying an episode of Storycast which tells the story of Martunis.
On 26 December 2004, one of the deadliest disasters in history struck when tsunami waves were triggered by a massive earthquake.
A Sky News camera crew would discover an eight-year-old boy named Martunis among the devastation.
Their subsequent report was seen by Cristiano Ronaldo - the Portuguese football star, known to many as the greatest player of his generation, but less so for his role in this remarkable survival story.
Martunis has told his story in full for the first time in Miracle Boy, the first episode of StoryCast '21 - a Sky News podcast series telling 21 extraordinary personal stories from some of the biggest news events of the century.
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Digital production: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Philly Beaumont
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Babe, it's Gem. |
| 0:02.0 | Just voice-noting you because I'm so busy. |
| 0:05.0 | I can't even type right now. |
| 0:06.8 | I'm working on that big presentation for my new launch. |
| 0:10.3 | I'm making it on Canva Mobile like you suggested. |
| 0:13.1 | And it's making everything iconic. |
| 0:16.6 | So it's a bit noisy, babe's mabts is going off. |
| 0:20.3 | Anyways, I'm going to ping the presentation to you now so you can see what I mean. |
| 0:25.1 | Yeah, madame. |
| 0:25.9 | Got to go, hon. |
| 0:27.3 | Thanks for introducing me to Canva. |
| 0:29.3 | Love you. |
| 0:30.1 | You turned your dating app for pets into a business, which just turned over its first billion. |
| 0:36.5 | You turned around the fortunes of a failing football club, |
| 0:40.8 | politely turned down a Nobel Peace Prize, |
| 0:43.7 | and turned up on Mars in your own reusable rocket. |
| 0:48.8 | While struggling to turn on the dishwasher, |
| 0:52.1 | there's more to imagine when you listen. |
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| 0:57.1 | Subscription required. |
| 0:58.2 | See audible.co.uk for terms. |
| 1:00.4 | Hi all. Neil Patterson here. |
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