Rugby league legend Rob Burrow has Motor Neurone Disease, he asks questions to guests using his eye-gaze machine.
Inspired by the number seven, which Burrow wore on his back when playing, episodes explore how sporting greats deal with adversity and how to celebrate the good at every opportunity.
Producer: Tracy Gee Digital Producer: Lewis Deighton, Hana Kelly and Jacob Tomlinson Station Sound Producer: Dan Purvis Operations Engineer: Richard Biddulph and Ross Collier Online producer: Rachael Smith Executive Producer: Kathryn Morrison
With thanks to Motor Neurone Disease Association, Speak Unique and Think Smart Box.
Originally broadcast on BBC Radio Leeds.
Rugby league legend Rob Burrow has Motor Neurone Disease, he asks questions to guests using his eye-gaze machine.
Inspired by the number seven, which Burrow wore on his back when playing, episodes explore how sporting greats deal with adversity and how to celebrate the good at every opportunity.
Producer: Tracy Gee Digital Producer: Lewis Deighton, Hana Kelly and Jacob Tomlinson Station Sound Producer: Dan Purvis Operations Engineer: Richard Biddulph and Ross Collier Online producer: Rachael Smith Executive Producer: Kathryn Morrison
With thanks to Motor Neurone Disease Association, Speak Unique and Think Smart Box.
Originally broadcast on BBC Radio Leeds.
Dame Kelly Holmes speaks openly with Rob about mental health struggles, overcoming adversity and how she felt ‘caged’ hiding her sexuality for a number of decades.
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Photograph by Andrea Medd, Double Gold Enterprises Ltd.
Originally broadcast on BBC Radio Leeds and published on the Total Sport podcast as Seven: Rob Burrow.