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What do you expect?

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio OrkneyLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Orkney

What impact does the box you’re placed in have on your path through life? Either because you’ve put yourself there or someone else has? How heavily does the expectation of society weigh on what we are capable of achieving? And what of our own expectations? Set them too high and are we inevitably going to fall?

Endurance athlete Lee Craigie sets off on her bike to unpick questions around expectation. On route Lee talks to top choreographer and dancer, Claire Cunningham, who has defied all expectations about just what its possible to achieve when you have to use crutches. She also meets inspirational young traveller, Davie Donaldson, who has battled expectations and prejudice of what being a traveller means his whole life.

Don't expect all the answers...do expect a fascinating and thought provoking journey from Lee and the people she meets along the way. Show less

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