
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


In 2016, Niall McCann was left with a bruised spinal cord when he crashed his speed glider into the side of a mountain at 50mph.
He shares his journey to recovery and some unexpected life lessons he has had to navigate, from soiling himself in inconvenient places and not being able to control his flatulence, to having to re-learn how to have sex again.
We also hear from a Mountain Rescue medic on what looked like an “unsurvivable” situation and Niall’s surgeon on fixing his “exploded” spine.
By BBC World Service4.4
939939 ratings
In 2016, Niall McCann was left with a bruised spinal cord when he crashed his speed glider into the side of a mountain at 50mph.
He shares his journey to recovery and some unexpected life lessons he has had to navigate, from soiling himself in inconvenient places and not being able to control his flatulence, to having to re-learn how to have sex again.
We also hear from a Mountain Rescue medic on what looked like an “unsurvivable” situation and Niall’s surgeon on fixing his “exploded” spine.

7,856 Listeners

1,115 Listeners

888 Listeners

1,077 Listeners

5,496 Listeners

1,816 Listeners

588 Listeners

1,851 Listeners

2,016 Listeners

362 Listeners

606 Listeners

765 Listeners

408 Listeners

422 Listeners

827 Listeners

736 Listeners

237 Listeners

337 Listeners

363 Listeners

484 Listeners

3,213 Listeners

776 Listeners

121 Listeners

1,042 Listeners