Stuck in wheelchair, I was the child no one wanted to play with

Anne Wafula-Strike, a Paralympian.

As a journalist, you do not always get to work on intriguing stories, and some days can be rather ordinary. But sometimes you get an opportunity to interview a personality with a life-changing testimony. On this day, it is a call from BBC World Service that makes the difference.

The broadcaster has just started a new weekly podcast, Lives Less Ordinary. The show is all about stepping into someone else’s life and expecting the unexpected. My subject is the podcast’s subject of the...