History's Toughest Heroes: Trailer

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Ray Winstone tells stories of adventurers, rebels and survivors who lived life on the edge. Ten tales of fearsome heroes from across history including arctic explorers, medieval knights and Hollywood stuntwomen.

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Speaker 4 I'm Ray Winstone, and for BBC Radio 4, this is history's toughest heroes.

Speaker 5 When you're in the wilderness, they don't care who your mom and daddy was, how much money they had.

Speaker 4 We're all going to get treated equal.

Speaker 5 You're going to be cold, you're going to be hot, you're going to be hungry. You're going to have to learn to deal with it on your own terms.

Speaker 4 Buckle up for wild stories of daredevils.

Speaker 2 She was sort of regarded as the greatest Hollywood stunt woman who ever lived.

Speaker 4 Antarctic explorers.

Speaker 6 And when he wakes to, he realizes he's been frozen in place.

Speaker 4 Suffragettes.

Speaker 2 We've tried persuasion and now what we're going to do is we're going to cause such a fuss.

Speaker 4 Medieval blokes on horseback.

Speaker 2 He's even described as having a large crotch, which everybody laughs at today. But what it meant in their terms was that he had a terrific seat in the saddle

Speaker 4 we know these folk are heroes but exactly outside are we talking

Speaker 7 we'll hear about proper adrenaline junkies that was the first time that anybody ever ran a car up that fast with no tires on it almost feels like your eyeballs are gonna come out of your head who aren't afraid to tell it like it is He doesn't always say the things

Speaker 2 that the people who script the heroic narratives would like him to say.

Speaker 4 Now these people could often be terrifying.

Speaker 6 So here is his head emerging out of the snow as the sharp teeth of the wind are just ripping around this guy. And he realizes, I could die in about a minute.

Speaker 2 I don't believe she was fearless.

Speaker 2 I believe that she did have fear.

Speaker 2 But she chose to do what she was doing anyway.

Speaker 4 But they're willing to risk it all.

Speaker 1 A lot of the mystery is: well, how could anybody not give up?

Speaker 4 Join me for true stories of adventurers, rebels, and survivors who lived life on the edge.

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