“The floor beneath me just crumbled in. I heard smashing, cracking, and everything turned to black. And I just braced for it.”
An earthquake of 6.9 magnitude rocked Morocco’s Atlas Mountains in September 2023, causing around 3,000 fatalities.
For six hours, British tourist Robbie Greatrex was trapped in the rubble; unable to feel his legs, unsure he would emerge alive.
Locals clubbed together in the rescue effort, improvising tools from what came to hand. The prognosis was not good.
In this compelling conversation with Olly, Robbie recounts his agonising rescue, his complex surgeries and his long road to recovery.
He explains why his experience left him shaken but not angry; how he got himself through the hardest moments in the disaster’s aftermath; and why you should *always* buy travel insurance…
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Meanwhile, in the Zeitgeist, Ollie Peart tries his hand at ‘vibe coding’.
With a carefully-crafted series of AI prompts, can he create a functional web app from scratch?
And, if he can, what does that say for the future of web design and computer coding? Ollie has a warning for the currently complacent…
Got a trend you’d like to challenge Ollie to test out on a future edition of the show? Fill out the Feedback form on our website, or join our Discord.
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Elsewhere, down the Foxhole, Alix Fox fresh from discovering exciting news about her future prospects, is on-hand for a listener whose sex life is troubled by his wife's UTI.
How can you get back to bedroom fun when a urinary tract infection is interfering between the sheets?
Can UTIs be passed on to your partner? And what new tests and techniques are there to diagnose and treat this common, yet sometimes devastating, complaint?
Resources:
• Chronic Urinary Tract Infection Campaign
… Got a sex and relationships question for Alix to answer in 2026?
Head to our Feedback form - you can remain anonymous if you wish.
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Finally, our record of the month is comes from Japanese singer-songwriter Joji, and his melancholic new single, ‘Love You Less’. Yum!
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We’ll be back with something new on 10th March.
In the meantime, thanks for your help supporting the show into 2026 with your beer money and/or reviews. Mwah!
