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What Goes On Here: John and Matthew

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03/04/2016

John and Matthew

BBC Radio 5 Live - What Goes On Here, John and Matthew

John Joseph and Matthew Syed talk to Sam Walker about what changed their lives.

Sam Walker speaks to John Joseph and Matthew Syed about the events that changed their lives and careers.

Sam Walker presents a series of in-depth interviews with people who changed their lives after life changed them.
 
John Joseph is an Iron Man athlete, a published author and lead singer of a seminal punk band. He also experienced nothing but violence, crime and abuse for the first decades of his life. If violence is all you have ever known - how do you change who you are? 
 
And Matthew Syed is a journalist, writer, broadcaster and champion table tennis player. But at a crucial point in his career- something happened that he admits changed him forever. If you've been building your whole life to one moment and at that moment you fail- how do you carry on.

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