You wanted me dead, but look at me now

Lives Less Ordinary

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Anne's village thought her disability made her worthless. She had other ideas. Now a graduate and a Paralympian who's represented Kenya and the UK, this is the story of how Anne Wafula Strike forgave the unforgiveable and made her return.

Presenter: Jo Fidgen Producer: Louise Morris

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0:00.0	On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.
0:06.9	It was an extraordinary news story.
0:09.1	The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,
0:13.7	mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.
0:18.0	One of the great mysteries in English criminal history.
0:20.7	We're still looking for Lucan. It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime.
0:25.9	I'm Alex Fontainezolman. This is The Lucan Obsession. Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.7	Who wants to have a childhood where nobody wants to come and play with you?
0:37.4	When kids want to come next to you,
0:39.2	you hear their mom shouting their names.
0:40.8	Hey, come, don't go there.
0:43.4	Don't get close to her.
0:45.0	Don't touch her.
0:49.4	I just don't like
0:50.9	to see people being
0:53.2	excluded. I just can't like to see people being excluded.
0:55.9	I just can't keep silent.
1:06.3	I feel slightly awkward opening a conversation with somebody I don't know about, with asking her about wetting herself on a train.
1:09.6	So I do apologise for plunging straight into such sensitive territory.
1:11.3	That's a good life.
1:18.2	I was a bit nervous about how Anne might react to being asked straight up about peeing in public,
1:20.8	given that she's done rather more impressive things in her life.
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