Two Days Underground
Life Changing
BBC
4.6 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
When highly experienced caver George Linanne fell during an expedition in the massive Ogof Ffynnon Ddu cave system in Wales , he wondered whether he would ever reach the surface. With a leg broken in two places, and multiple injuries to his jaw, collar-bone, chest and internal organs, he was in excruciating pain. Some 300 cavers from across the UK took part in what became one of the longest cave rescues in UK history. George tells Dr Sian Williams about his accident, his incredible escape and why he is back caving - the sport he loves - as well as becoming a cave rescuer himself.
Producer: Tom Alban
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| 0:49.4 | Hello, people often bring you their dreams when you're a therapist. |
| 0:53.7 | And a common one is this. You're buried hundreds of feet underground in the dark with no obvious way out. You're badly hurt so you can't move. And you're in such a complex system of caves. There's no guarantee. Help will know where to come, and it's cold. |
| 1:11.7 | Welcome to a few days in the life of George Linane, |
| 1:16.0 | the subject of one of the longest cave rescues in British history. |
| 1:21.1 | Hello, George. |
| 1:22.0 | Hello. |
| 1:22.5 | Thanks very much for coming in today. |
| 1:24.0 | No problem. |
| 1:24.7 | And you came from Bristol. |
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