Everyday Extraordinary: Recent Episodes
Bobby Twidale
There's a network of people we encounter every day - family, friends, colleagues, the guy at the end of the street. Some we know well, some occupy one dimension of our lives. Everyday Extraordinary celebrates the things we didn't know about the people we spend time with every day.
In 2018, a team of enthusiastic individuals from Excelsior in the western suburbs of Minneapolis set out to resurrect a rather unique winter event that takes full advantage of the predictably cold and snowy Minnesota winter climate. What the organizing committee couldn't have predicted was that by 2023, tens of thousands of spectators would line the streets for the start of the event and local sponsorships would be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The other thing they couldn't have predicted was that in 2024, Minnesota would experience an historically warm winter.
Karen tells the story of married life and the impact of her husband Amir's childhood trauma on family life
Amir was a child of 13 during the siege of Sarajevo when he was hit in the stomach by a sniper's bullet. The injuries he sustained were life changing. His words are shared by his widow Karen.
On the leafy shores of Lake Minnetonka in Minnesota, the winters are hard and long. But out of the cold comes a sweet surprise - the climate provides the perfect conditions for producing maple syrup.
Jim Ward has been using a traditional method to cut the hedges on his farmland in rural England for more than 70 years