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Hannah Baldock
Terry Waite on Solitude
Thursday 17 September 2009
Terry Waite was taken hostage in Lebanon by Islamic Jihad in January 1987 and held captive for nearly five years, four of these in total solitary confinement, before he was released in November 1991.
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Hannah Baldock
Dame Ellen MacArthur on Solitude
Thursday 17 September 2009
Dame Ellen MacArthur, 32, knows what it is to survive alone for months in the wild on the world's oceans. In 2005 she broke the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe in just over 71 days, having earlier broken the record for a woman when she finished second in the 2000-2001 Vendée Globe race, racing solo for 94 days.
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Hannah Baldock
Brian Keenan on... Living with Wilderness
Thursday 10 September 2009
When I first went into the wilderness on my own in Alaska I thought I was really tough. But I soon got that kicked out of me within half a day. Because you can be tough, you can be a hard man when you see what it is and feel what it is that you are confronting. But when you don’t see it, but you feel its presence all around you that’s kind of scary because it’s bigger than you. Brian Keenan
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Hannah Baldock
A Single Mother on Solitude
Wednesday 09 September 2009
Six years ago Genny Jones, found herself a single mother to two boys aged 3 and 4 after ending an abusive relationship with their father. Though she had chosen to seek a divorce, she was unprepared for the stresses involved in going it alone. Now on the other side, she is able to look back and see that the experience, although incredibly hard, actually made her stronger.
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Hannah Baldock
An Elderly Man on Solitude
Wednesday 09 September 2009
Solitude came as a shock to retired policeman Bill Baldock 92 who grew up in a family with eleven brothers and sisters before living with his wife for sixty years until she died in 2003.
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Hannah Baldock
Alastair Humphreys on Solitude
Friday 03 July 2009
British adventurer Alistair Humphreys canoed down the Yukon River in 2004 during a four year round-the-world cycling expedition after the road he intended to cycle was cut off by a forest fire.
