Unbroken Author Laura Hillenbrand; A Lesson in Adaptation
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
RunnersConnect: Coaching Community, Running Experts, Inspiring Runners, No Fluff Blog
4.5 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2015
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Runners love it when our sport intersects with what is going on in life. We had not had a good running movie in a while….until recently that is.
Unbroken has been a huge hit in cinemas, because it follows the true story of Olympian Louie Zamperini, who survived 47 days in a raft, after his bomber plane crashed into the ocean, and then he spent years as a prisoner of war in Japan.
A little more about the author, Laura Hillenbrand:
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Runners Connect, Run to the Top Podcast, where it's all about learning from the best minds in the sport |
| 0:07.0 | so you can train smarter, stay healthy, and run faster now. |
| 0:11.0 | And now your host, Tina Muir. |
| 0:14.6 | Welcome to the Runers Connect, Run to the Top Podcast. |
| 0:18.2 | Thank you for taking the time to listen today. |
| 0:20.6 | Hopefully you will enjoy this podcast as much as I did. It was absolutely fascinating and I'm sure you're going to enjoy it too. |
| 0:27.0 | We try to go for a variety of topics to talk about on the Runners Connect podcast and we listen to your suggestions about who you would like to hear from. |
| 0:35.1 | So thank you to those of you who suggested unbroken author Laura Hillenbrand. |
| 0:39.2 | We did reach out to her and she was willing to have an interview. Runners love it when our sport intersects with what is going on in life. |
| 0:46.0 | We hadn't had a good running movie in a while, until recently that is. |
| 0:50.0 | Unbroken has been a huge hit in cinemas because it follows the true story of Olympians Louis Zamperini who survived 47 days in a raft after his bomber plane crashed into the ocean and then he spent years as a prisoner of war in Japan. Now a little bit more about |
| 1:05.0 | Laura, she is the author of Unbroken, which is in the cinemas, the book itself sold |
| 1:10.6 | four million copies. Well that was a previous record I'm sure it's even higher by now. |
| 1:16.0 | She also wrote C-Biscuit which many of you will have heard of or seen |
| 1:20.0 | which spent 42 weeks at the number one New York Times bestseller list. |
| 1:26.4 | It was also the William Hill Sports Book of the Year and was even voted best-selling sports |
| 1:31.4 | book in history by Newsweek. |
| 1:34.0 | Laura is the two-time winner of the Eclipse Award, which is the highest journalistic honor |
| 1:39.2 | in Thoroughbred Racing. |
| 1:41.2 | She is the co-founder of Operation International Children, which provides school supplies |
| 1:46.0 | to needy children through US troops. Laura has ME, so mostly stays indoors, but it has helped to shape her creative process which you will learn |
| 1:56.1 | about in this interview. Today we're going to cover how Laura came up with the idea for |
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