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History's Heroes

History's Youngest Heroes: Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope

History's Heroes

BBC

Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.8704 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Can 21 year-old Terry Fox, a cancer survivor with a prosthetic leg, run the length of Canada?

Nicola Coughlan shines a light on extraordinary young people from across history. Join her for 12 stories of rebellion, risk and the radical power of youth.

A BBC Studios Audio production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

Producer: Suniti Somaiya Assistant Producer: Lorna Reader Executive Producer: Paul Smith Written by Alex von Tunzelmann Commissioning editor for Radio 4: Rhian Roberts

Transcript

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0:00.0

Football, a game of passion, rivalry and loyalty.

0:05.0

But decades ago, beneath the cheers and the chance,

0:09.0

lay a different kind of warfare called hooliganism.

0:13.0

On a match day, everyone was your enemy.

0:15.0

We'll uncover the brutal, bloody battles where punching below the belt was a way of life.

0:19.0

It was just a die of my him. Gangster presents hooligans.

0:22.6

They were destroying the football club.

0:24.8

The game I alone.

0:25.9

Listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:30.9

BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:35.5

Terry Fox woke up in a holiday inn.

0:38.5

He was in the city of St. John's, Newfoundland.

0:41.1

He did 35 push-ups and 60 sit-ups before dressing in jeans in a ski jacket.

0:46.3

He came down early and was delighted with the breakfast that was offered.

0:50.8

French toast, hash browns, uh, waffles.

0:58.5

Terry needed the energy. That morning in April 1980, he set out to run across Canada, coast to coast from the shores of the Atlantic Ocean

1:06.1

to the edge of the Pacific. He planned to run 5,300 miles across the second largest country in the world.

1:16.6

He aimed high 30 to 40 miles a day, and he had run up to that in his year or so of training.

1:25.6

His hope was to arrive home at the end of October.

1:32.4

That was almost unheard of.

1:36.0

In fact, it was unheard of for a person to run a marathon a day.

1:42.0

Terry Fox was not an elite athlete.

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