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Ann Daniels

lines on the record: 49
first: 2007-01-21
most recent: 2007-01-21
sittings or episodes: 1
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“I would run to say you rhythmics and sweet dreams just because of the whole package of Annie Lennox and the song and just dreaming and everything's going to be wonderful.”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I want a bar of soap to keep clean because that's what I always wanted when I was in the Arctic and the Antarctic washing”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My eighth record is sometimes out of sort of disasters great things happen and what happened out of my disastrous sort of breakup of a marriage was that I met a wonderful man, a wonderful man who I now share my life with and this record is just the way he is and it's Oranako Flow by Enya and it's me and him together in a wonderful way”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's very difficult, and our last expedition, the 2002 expedition, got £6 million worth of track coverage. It's getting over that concept and actually getting people to believe in you and back you. And you can't do these things without backing.”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I am planning a second attempt. At the moment there is still the ever sponsorship problem that I am really battling against but I want to leave at the end of February and settle from Canada and make the solo attempt. No woman has ever done it and I feel I am the woman to bring it back to Britain.”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, in 2005 I put together the solar because no woman has ever walked from land to the North Pole. And I arrived in Russia and set off and there was two other expeditions doing different things on the ice. And we kept going. And then on day 21 I had a call from Ian Wesley, my base manager, and he said, and I have to tell you, the Russians are removing the permits and they're pulling you off and they're pulling them off. You be out.”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Nina Simone and feeling good is a great record for me. She has just the voice to die for. And feeling good, my marriage did split up after the 97 relay and it was a real traumatic time for me. But I moved on and this was, I sang this all across Antarctica and going to the South Pole was me starting again a new life. I was feeling good and a new start for me and this record means the world to me.”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yet often Scott went to the south pole who knew what was there. There could have been, it could have been the black hole in the earth. And also when he got there with his woolly pully and his nails in the bottom of his shoes he had come back. There's nothing there he didn't know what it was, and then he would have to turn round, where taken in, where fed, where at the peak of our physical fitness, we walk and then we're brought out. So I do think about them a lot and what they went through, and I'm glad and honoured to share a tiny bit of what they experienced.”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The terrifying moments are when the ice suddenly, because the ice in the Arctic suddenly can start to move. So you can be on what you consider to be a solid piece of land and it's feet deep and it goes on for a long way and suddenly there's a rumbling and a shaking and it starts to break and that is the most heart stopping moment in you looking around where can I go? Where did it start? How can I get away from this?”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We took in 4,500 a day and still lost, I lost £21 on the North Powell expedition. And the Frostbite, the pain of your fingers when they've crystallised, is just excruciating. It's all encompassing and you just get through those moments of real pain until they warm a little bit and you can start to think again. And that really is a battle with the mind of I've just got to ignore it and move on.”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's windy, and there are days that you ski one time we skied for five days constant wind and in whiteout, and then one occasion at the end of the five days the sun came out, we saw a mountain, and it was beautiful. So again, there's the real contrast.”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Antarctica is continent and it is so different from the Arctic. It's a landmass and the skies are enormous because there's nothing to stop your view. The skies are really blue azore and they just cover the whole of your world. And then there's the snow in the eyes which is beautiful. It has sculptures and it has waves upon wave of snow and you can ski along and suddenly the sun will come out and the rainbows go round the sun. So you have a rainbow that just circles the sun and sometimes there's two rainbows circling the sun and you stand there and you feel as if you're skiing between the sky and the land in that place where the horizon meets calm, beautiful environments windy and horrible. It doesn't move.”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My next road card is Abba and the Dancing Queen, which really reminds me of the polar North Pole girls Pom and Caroline and it's sort of a group record as something that binds us all together. It's just such fun and great.”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've asked this an awful lot and obviously there's possibly some of it in there but actually my marriage was breaking up before the trip was even thought about and that we had problems and I don't imagine it helped but I don't think the marriage would be together without the North Pole either.”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's right, it was a relay, it was five teams of four women with two guides, and I was chosen to be on the first leg, so I physically never reached the pole on that expedition. But to me it was part of a team, and when the last team Echo got there I felt it was all our achievements, and thankfully on the twenty seventh of may we made it.”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And to sort of play in this context, it was a relay. So I was gone for four weeks, three to four weeks in total. My parents were the ones that were actually going to do the day-to-day taking over of the children. And they said, for those four weeks, for this opportunity in your life, we will just move in and take over and life will go on as normal for the children.”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Now at the end of the four days all the women walked into a barn and they stood up and started to call out the twenty names and I just waited and waited and my name was called and it was amazing I was so emotional so excited and it was a real emotional experience to actually be chosen in front of everybody else and with everybody else”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“second weekend was four days of SAS style training and selection and we had four days of getting up when it was dark and this time we had to navigate we had to take a team with us absail in the dark we'd go to bed and then they would get us up two hours after we'd gone to bed and make us do a night run and race each other and then the next morning they would take us out for hours again relentless just relentless it was just relentless for the whole four days”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My next piece of music is the title theme to Chariots of Fire by Vangelis and it really is interwoven with the foam and I just watched them and had so much admiration for them and what they achieved and every time I listened to this I really think the impossible is possible”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, what changed was I had gone through that terrible baptism and I got to the farm and I had somebody gave me a hot mug of something and I sat down and I was interviewed by the TV and they said to me what will it mean as a mother of triplets when you get to the North Pole? And I had to answer them and I said I'd be great. And I said, and what were your children think about? What a wonderful thing experience to give to your children. And somewhere along that, I suddenly thought wow actually wouldn't that be fantastic this is my opportunity I'm not giving this up I'm not going home and again going I wanted to do that but I just didn't have the background I wasn't good enough didn't have the train in I'm gonna do this”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We went through two days out on the moors, eighteen hours tromping across the moors, just walking for hours on end in the dark and the mud and the rain and particularly for me I was sobbing most of it. Where are you? There was a time that I was in so much pain and the rucksack her it was raining I couldn't see anything it was dark and I distanced myself from the front person and the person behind me not enormous and just cried for the sure horror of it all At the end of the weekend and they pulled the cars up I crawled into this car to take us back to where we were going and I looked out of the window at the back and there was this group of girls healthy and happy and singing and what a great day they'd had and”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We got together and I had borrowed all this military equipment from my friends and I turned up and every single woman there had outdoor experience and I did feel totally and totally outclassed and out of my depth and my thoughts for the weekend were just get through it and that'll be fine you've had an adventure and get through the weekend and that's it”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I really do do that, mainly with the South Pole because you're crossing Antarctica. It's the windiest continent in the earth and you're just walking for miles upon miles in this terrible cold. And it's really a battle of the mind. And so I chant their names just to get me through the day and get the rhythm and keep their picture in my mind. And it just drives me on and stops me from the pain and thinking about the horror.”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not my opinion. And I actually don't want to change them because life's about different people, but I haven't just suddenly said I'm going to go solo across the ice. My first expedition had guides and I learnt my craft. And yes, what I do is really difficult and you have to suffer the pain and keep going. But I don't take reckless risks. The children keep me safe because when I get to a piece of particular tricky eyes that might be thin, I think about them. And so there are many ways I use the children to make safe and sensible decisions rather than recklessly just charging ahead.”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because what I do is about life as well, and I am a mother and I have children. Yes, it's blatant sexism. People don't say that about Richard Brunson when he goes on his balloons and his children. But actually, I want people to know that I'm a mother as well as doing these things. It's a part of who I am. And whilst, yeah, it's enough, it is enough. But also as characters when we do things and we talk about them, the whole of who we are is important and”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I only went to the ballet as recently as around three years ago Pom Oliver took me, and it just hit me emotionally, the music, the sounds, it reminded me in many ways of the Arctic and how it moves, and I loved the grace with the dynamic music, and I just love this music. And every time I hear it, I'm taken back to the ballet and that rush of emotions. And this is wonderful music.”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was pure madness my life was aware of bananas and ten minutes sleep and just running around and shopping I had them all in a big pram and the cute factor of three new babies in a pram is great and whilst as I enjoyed it I did but I think it was a state of mind when I looked back now I just think how did I get through that how did we get through that tough love it was tough”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There was one nurse in particular Col Carroll, who came up to me and she said to me as I was leaving, she went right and she said, I have to say this to you. When you leave this hospital you will not cope I'm not saying that because I want to be horrible because I want you to be realistic seek advice take help and above all don't feel you've failed and as she said I thought it was a wonderful thing to say actually but I also thought inside myself I've waited six years for these I will cope not only will I cope I'll enjoy these babies because this is what I've wanted and I went out with what she'd said new determination that yeah I'm gonna cope but I'm also going to enjoy them as well”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“because I'd got my dream, and I knew I was going to get horrendously big and fat, and I knew so I expected that. And it was what I had to do to have my babies”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I knew as soon as they put them in, I came out and Jess said to me, you think you're pregnant, don't you? I went, I know I am. I know I am. And I've got the ball. I've got all three of them. They're not going. I've got them. And so for me, when they told me you've got the three of them, I thought wow, I've kept them all. That's fantastic. And I was never afraid of the three. I just thought, never, not one side, just kept thinking how wonderful I've got three and I got to know them and the way they were. and put on nine stone and just got enormous with his babies out here. And I got to know their features Rachel sucked her thumb all the time she was inside me, Lucy curled up and Joseph being the boy to call the room. It was funny. Of course he did.”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Just one shot at IVF, and by then I'd accepted that I probably wouldn't have children, and thought, well, okay, if that is going to happen, I will then look at other things. And if it doesn't work, then I will give up the job and we'll travel and we decided that we would sell the house, buy a camper van and go and travel. So I had accepted it and perhaps that may have been one of the reasons that when I went for my first IVF treatment, it worked.”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I did, and by the time I got to the IVF I was really told this is your last chance and the likelihood is in those days it wasn't as successful as now is that it may not occur.”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I did, and it was six years of operations and tubes removed and goodness knows what to try and actually have my family, and that then I was desperate then, I want a child.”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Devon and his Parker because I got cold in those days, but we did. We leave the club, jump on his skit and we just thought we had the world. And we did, of course.”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My next record is the Jam and Eaton Rifles. I love the jam, I always wanted to be a rebel. It takes me back to my youth when we all used to dance to it. And for me this brings back great memories of my youth.”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“While I joined at sixteen, of course, because it was straight from school, and I just imagined I would further my career to a not a great extent, but I knew I'd do pretty mediocre, then I would leave. I would get married, I would have children, but that would be my life mapped out. There would be no more.”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I want you on the place or I wanted to join the services or do something quite physical, but I'm also very short-sighted. And I went to the eye exam for the police and he just laughed and said, don't be silly. And I fell into banking. It's a career that you can use your brain with also. So I enjoyed that challenge”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Or else for my father would like me to say this, but the truth of the matter is in those days, in my father's ideas, long-head layabouts went to university that just couldn't be bothered to get a job. People worked, they went out and they brought money into the family and brought income in.”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was, which was in some ways quite a tragedy Really for me, I'd always wanted to go to university whilst I was at school. But that's not really the background that I came from and not really acceptable for me to do. It was a case of you went to school, you”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is Annie Lennox is, I would say, one of the people that I could aspire to be. I think she's beautiful, she's strong. She is just a fantastic icon for women and for me.”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My second piece of music is eurythmics and sweet dreams. I love Annie Lennox. I think she's got a fantastic voice. She to me is a great woman. And this record in particular sweet dreams, sweet dreams are made of this and life and I love this record. Sweet dreams are made of the disagree I travel the world and the seven seas”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My mother has always and absolutely been behind me and isn't it wonderful? I think at the very beginning in nineteen ninety seven when I began this my father found a little bit difficult he's from a background where women don't go out and do these things but what I would say about him is he's still supported me and actually he's now proud of the things I've done and sometimes my mother's heard him boasting about his daughter Father's not like that.”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We played on the streets. I lived on a state and we played out on the streets and did hop scotch and jumping middens and people had backyards and huge walls and we'd climb up onto the walls and we'd run across and jump from one gate to another and I always did get a kick out of doing that and amongst all the boys you would see this little girl that was running along the middens and jumping around and just enjoying that kind of exciting sort of life.”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Wasn't a gonna go, but I came up and I'd got four older brothers who I adored and who I wanted to be with and I wanted them to accept me so I became an absolute tomboy and did the biggest jumps, climbed the highest trees just so that they would let me be one of them and play with them.”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've chosen Neil Diamond, I am I said. I am I said particularly because I feel a lot that I'm on two shores. I love the Arctic, my passions out there and I also adore my home life and my children and sometimes it battles and sometimes it's just fantastic.”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because you're living in quite a dirty environment, you can't wash and you can get infection. And then gangrene gets into the real painful frostbite and starts to eat away at your toes. So they start to rot and it's just appalling. And as Pom took her boots off on a night, the smell of gorgonzola cheese would just hit the tent and we'd almost gag with it. She was in such pain she would weep when she put her boots on, and then to keep the expedition alive she went out of that tent every morning and skied for nine hours so that the expedition wouldn't stop and it made me want to weep with her because she didn't get to the pole, but she just went through so much to enable us to achieve the dream.”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is appalling, Pom particularly who is on the North Pole 2002 team. She had horrendous wet gangrene and frostbite. Can you explain that?”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But thankfully, it wasn't a scam, and having started that journey, I fell in love with the Arctic. I come from an ordinary background, and for some delight me to go to the Arctic, which is magnificent, beautiful, and challenge yourself and get a world record why would you not do something so fantastic?”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've always believed that you should challenge yourself and do something extraordinary. And then a newspaper advert came up that was an advert for ordering women to apply for the North Pole. And so I applied, sent £75 off and thought I'd be on crime watch having lost all the”
2007-01-21 · Desert Island Discs · Ann Daniels · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source