Dan Buckingham: Wheel Black to take on NY Marathon
Saturday Morning with Jack Tame
English - September 30, 2017 20:07 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingNews Society & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In 1999 Dan Buckingham was enjoying life as an 18-year old Uni student when things changed quite dramatically. A casual game of rugby with his mates ended with a broken neck and spinal cord damage and left him a tetraplegic.
Dan reinvented himself, spending 16 years as a Wheel Black and is now the General Manager of Attitude TV, where he started as a researcher and reporter.
His next challenge is the New York Marathon which he's doing to raise money for the Catwalk Trust.
He joined Jack Tame ahead of his trip.
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