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Jason Fox Wild Tales Podcast – The Book of Man

Series 2: Episode 7 - Martine Wright

Jason Fox Wild Tales Podcast – The Book of Man

Mark Sanford

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Foxy talks to Martine about the challenges she overcame after the 7/7 bombings and her journey to compete at the 2012 London Olympics 5 years later.

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0:00.0

May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get

0:08.0

10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again.

0:16.5

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app.

0:22.4

Welcome to the Wild Tales Podcast. I'm Jason Fox and this series is all about

0:26.9

adventure, resilience and inspirational humans. The podcast is presented by the

0:32.1

Book of Man and in partnership with Taliska the single The

0:35.0

single Malt whiskey made by the seat.

0:38.0

My guest today is Martine Wright, MBE.

0:40.0

A British Sitting Volleyballs player, presenter and one of the most inspirational people in the country.

0:47.0

Martine lost both her legs in an explosion during the 7-7 London bombings,

0:51.0

but has since established herself as not just a popular athlete, but a campaigner for better compensation for victims of bombings and is an ambassador for disabled sport.

1:01.0

In the episode, we answer some questions that you've asked me on

1:04.5

and Instagram. I'm going to be sending a bottle of Talisman to the top of

1:08.2

question. Anyway here we go and I hope you enjoy it. Martin here you are. We've eventually we've got you

1:15.0

on it. Martin here you are you've eventually we've got you on which is great news

1:16.1

you're an absolute legend and you've been through an awful lot and achieved an awful

1:20.0

lot but before we start I'd like to know how lockdown's been for you because obviously we're still in the sort of the the tail end of it at the moment and you know

1:29.4

It's been its dominant lots of people's lives everyone's lives really so how's it been?

1:35.0

Yeah everyone everyone I mean you know it's hilarious isn't it that not hilarious

1:40.1

but it's like four months ago we've never heard of things like COVID-19 or furloughing or

1:46.4

social distancing. And yeah like many people it's it's I mean there's been parts of it that that we've really enjoyed as a as a

1:55.2

family you know being able to spend more time with your immediate family you know we've got

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