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Dilys Price OBE

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The life of Dilys Price, founder of the Touch Trust and celebrated skydiver.

Mary Stallard marks the life of Dilys Price: founder of Cardiff-based charity the Touch Trust; dancer, teacher, and the world's oldest female skydiver.

This week's programme marks the life of Dilys Price OBE, who's died at the age of 88. 

Dilys was perhaps best known as the world’s oldest female skydiver. A remarkable woman whose infectious enthusiasm inspired everyone who met her, she was a dancer, teacher, public speaker, the founder of the Cardiff based Touch Trust, working with people with disabilities, and much more. Her life was one of ups and downs – quite literally – including in her relationship with her Christian faith – and in 2018, at the age of 86, she added to her list of achievements working as a fashion model.

She grew up in a Bible College where her family welcomed Jewish refugees who'd arrived in Swansea on the Kindertransport, and as a young woman she learnt to dance with the celebrated Rudolf Laban, a German exile who had fallen foul of the Nazis at the 1933 Berlin Olympics. A whirlwind romance in the 1950s saw her marry the man she'd got engaged to on the evening they first met, and on retiring from a career as a dance teacher and educator she founded the Touch Trust in the late 1990s, just in time to become part of the new Wales Millennium Centre.

In September 2018, Mary Stallard met her to talk about her journey of faith through the - sometimes literal - ups and downs of a remarkable life.

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