My Neighbour The Hero
‘My Neighbour The Hero’ will feature everyday people who have survived, achieved, helped, endured, experienced and lived - the everyday heroes, the forgotten heroes, the reluctant heroes. And in turn, helping us to recognise the hero within ourselves.
The definition of a hero (on Wikipedia) is 'a real person who…combats adversity through feats of ingenuity, courage, or strength’. In todays world, a lot of us face some kind of adversity, and how we move through those adversities can be the difference in living a life that's free or a life that's stuck.
I'm Sarah Speirs, I'm a TV Producer and I’ve worked in TV for 18 years. Having seen the power that other people's stories have to make us feel seen, to inspire and connect us as humans, I think there’s no better to way to help people learn and grow, than by learning from the heroes amongst us.
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- Update frequency
- every 22 days
- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 7
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Chris - Kidney Donation, COVID and the Power of Language
6 people die every week waiting for a kidney transplant.
In this episode, I talk to Chris, who donated his kidney to his friend Steph at the height of COVID.
This is a story of friendship, of how Chri…
Gina - Surrogacy, Friendship and Filling People's Buckets Up
In today's episode, I talk to Gina, who is a surrogate, who has given birth to 3 children for parents who could not carry their own.
Gina tells us all about her surrogacy journey's, how she found the …
Ryan - Surviving The Boxing Day Tsunami
In today's episode, I meet Ryan. 20 years ago, on Boxing Day, 2004, over a quarter of a million people were killed, across 14 countries in the Indian Ocean Tsunami. At 11am, when the Tsunami hit Krab…
Tyler - Showmen, Sexuality and Traveller Pride
Tyler is a Showman and the founder of Traveller Pride.
We discuss growing up on the fair and how he felt being bisexual in a community where being gay was seen as a bit of joke, and where reputation …
Angela - Death, Regrets and the Afterlife
In today's episode I meet Angela, who has been a nurse for over 40 years, and for 20 of those she has worked in a hospice.
This is the story of how she overcame her fear of death to work in a hospice …
Sophie - A Life Changing Injury, Skiing and Finding Your People
At the age of 22, Sophie sustained a spinal cord injury which left her paralysed from the chest down.
We discuss how she struggled to adapt to life with a disability, in a world where disability isn’…
Vernel - Gang crime, Prison and the Power of the Mind.
At the age of 12, Vernel was taken to live on the notorious Pembury Estate in Hackney. He saw a man shot dead within the first week.
We discuss how he was drawn into gang crime, his suffering at the …