The five-year journey to “Running the Race”
The Official Adventures in Odyssey Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Executive producer Dave Arnold starting outlining a story about Eric Liddell in 2019 — but the episode wasn’t written and directed by Phil Lollar until 2023 and not released until 2024. Follow the marathon production of the three-part epic. (Plus: A preview of “The Rydell Realizations, Part 3”)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Odyssey, I'm Bob, producer of the Adventures in Odyssey Club. |
| 0:13.0 | And I'm Jesse, editor a focus on the Family Clubhouse magazine. |
| 0:16.2 | Welcome to the official Adventures in Odyssey podcast. |
| 0:19.0 | Today we're learning about the creation of running the race, |
| 0:22.0 | a three-part historical adventure currently |
| 0:23.9 | releasing in the club. These episodes were written by executive producer Dave |
| 0:28.0 | Arnold and Odyssey co-creator Phil Lawler. And with a pedigree like that you know |
| 0:32.4 | these episodes and our conversation are going to be good. Let's talk to have Dave here in the studio with us and Phil on the phone |
| 0:47.8 | Phil join us yeah thanks thanks I'm glad to be here. Yeah. Love talking about this stuff. |
| 0:53.2 | We're going to put you on hold for just a second because my first question is for Dave. |
| 0:57.1 | Dave, you first outlined a story about Eric Littleback in 2019. I remember that one. |
| 1:01.5 | I was a really great idea and most people familiar with |
| 1:05.3 | him probably saw the Oscar winning film Chariots of Fire. What made you want to |
| 1:10.2 | tell Eric's story here in Adventures in Odyssey? |
| 1:12.6 | Well, it was so much more to his story |
| 1:15.3 | that wasn't in the film, number one. |
| 1:17.6 | I did some research on his background |
| 1:19.3 | and I thought he came from a very interesting family, his father being a man of conviction, and the approach |
| 1:25.4 | that I was taking thematically for the shows then was that sort of baton of conviction |
| 1:32.1 | being passed down from the father to the son and how it impacted |
| 1:35.9 | Eric throughout his entire life he was a man of strong conviction so that was my |
| 1:40.4 | theme and it was just it felt like a very engaging thing because as |
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