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Today I’m talking to a man who’s lived a life that belongs in ten different films stitched together with duct tape.
Colin Prescott is a ballooning pioneer, record-chaser, movie stunt coordinator and the only person I know who introduced Richard Branson to ballooning… and immediately regretted it.
He’s flown around the world for 18 days straight, ditched into the Pacific Ocean, hung under helicopters for Bond films and trained as a cosmonaut to reach the edge of space. Yet somehow he also ended up here on Alderney, the tiny island that quietly stole his heart.
From launching the only hot air balloon ever flown from the island, to the eerie coincidence of meeting a woman who now lives in the exact house he grew up in, Colin’s life is threaded with the kind of magic this place specialises in.
He tells these stories with the calmness of someone ordering a cup of tea. An entire lifetime of danger, invention and accidental comedy delivered with a gentle smile.
You’re going to love this one.
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