Sarah Storey on her sporting dreams

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

In 2024, the athlete Dame Sarah Storey was cast away by Lauren Laverne.

Sarah Storey is Great Britain’s most successful Paralympian. She was just 14 when she took two weeks off school to compete as a swimmer in the 1992 Barcelona Paralympics where she won her first two gold medals.

She spoke to Lauren about the first time she watched the Olympics on TV.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:07.3	Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron.
0:10.5	Evil genius.
0:11.6	He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it.
0:15.5	That's like hiding at your own funeral.
0:17.1	Yeah, a bit great gig.
0:18.6	I'm Russell Kane.
0:19.6	Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history
0:22.3	are more evil or genius.
0:24.1	Becoming that rich, I'd say that
0:25.4	is some level of genius.
0:26.4	It also helps it.
0:27.4	It's a long time ago, right?
0:29.4	It's like the podcast version
0:30.6	of telling your kids
0:31.5	the ice cream van plays music
0:33.0	when it's out of ice cream.
0:34.9	Listen to Evil Genius on BBC Sounds.
0:55.2	Hello, I'm Lauren Levern, and this is Desert Island Discs postcards,
0:59.7	a collection of funny and heartwarming moments from some of our many castaways.
1:04.7	Today's castaway is Britain's most successful Paralympian athlete Dame Sarah Story.
1:09.7	I spoke to her last year before she went to the Paris Games, her ninth Paralympics.
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