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“Is it really nearly 34 years since I took part in the ‘I Ran the World’ Sport Aid Event? In common with millions of others around the world, I took part in a 10k ‘charity run’ to help raise funds for the starving in Africa. I am sure that I can still feel it in my legs! I ran with a group of fellow squash players from my local club who were determined to make it competitive. At the end of it I was “exhausted…knackered….f*****d”
And those are exactly the words that author Chris Long uses in the prelude of ‘I Ran the World’, to describe how he felt as he landed ...

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The book ‘I Ran the World’ is being previewed on Sunday 10th November at 1:00 pm and on Tuesday 12th November at 7:00 pm on the Tara Dolby show on BBC Three Counties Radio.

“Michael Burke’s famine report changed me forever” Bedfordshire’s Chris Long founded Sport Aid & Run The World raising millions

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Tara Dolby brings you the People’s Playlist – Life stories through music. Release date: 10 November 2019. 1 hour

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Extract from Chapter 21

“As I write this, [I Ran the World] Greta Thunberg who started a school strike for climate change outside the Swedish Parliament building, is now regarded across the world as a model of determination, inspiration and positive action.

National presidents and corporate executives are lining up to be criticised by her, face-to-face. Her skolstrejk för klimatet (school strike for climate) banner has now been translated into dozens of languages.

I like this girl.

The teenager’s lone protest has developed via social media into a powerful global movement challenging politicians to act.

She wants to change the world.

In 1992 at the UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, who was only 12 at the time, demanded the same of policymakers: