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	Podcast:		All Things Considered
	Episode:		Dilys Price OBE
	Category:		Music
	Duration:		00:27:47
	Publish Date:		2019-08-11 03:31:00
	Description:		Dilys Price OBE is a teacher, dancer, and founder of the Cardiff based Touch Trust, a charity working with people with disabilities through arts, movement and dance. She’s most widely known as the world’s oldest female skydiver, and now at 86 she’s just become 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. She says she has a mission to spread joy and eliminate fear; and in this week's programme Mary Stallard meets her to talk about her journey of faith through the - sometimes literal - ups and downs of a remarkable life. This programme was first broadcast in September 2018.
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