Lost in lion country and saved by Spam

Lives Less Ordinary

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In 2016, when Jenny Söderqvist and Helene Åberg’s car exploded in the middle of the vast Kalahari desert, their supplies and only lifeline to the outside world went up in flames. No rescue would come. The two friends from Sweden would spend the next five harrowing days lost in the wilderness and stalked by lions, until their salvation appeared to them in the most unlikely of forms: a tin of Spam.

Presenter: Mobeen Azhar Producer: Edgar Maddicott

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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.
0:22.1	It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime.
0:25.9	I'm Alex von Tunselman.
0:27.3	This is The Lucan Obsession.
0:29.2	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.4	We weren't meant to die in the Callahara Game Reserve.
0:37.4	Rule number one is don't leave the car.
0:40.3	Don't ever leave the car.
0:42.2	And all of a sudden, the car exploded.
0:45.3	I could feel myself starting to hyperventilate.
0:48.6	Now I'm panicking.
0:49.7	What are we going to do?
0:50.3	What are we going to do?
0:50.9	We're going to die here.
0:51.5	And then I turned to Jenny and I looked at her face face and it was just white. I could hear a noise and I just know this,
1:00.6	this is a lion? It's a lion. I was so scared. I just froze. And then Helen turned around
1:09.0	and I could see in her eyes were really wide and I knew that she knew.
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