In this week’s show I interview Stuart Kettell who creates a wacky charity fund raising event for Macmillan Cancer Support each year. For several years Stuart has devised a ‘Mad Fool’ task that he does to raise money for Macmillan. His past challenges have included cycling on a replica Penny Farthing from Lands End to John O’Groats and kayaking across the channel from France to Coventry.
Last year he suspended himself, David Blaine style, inside a perspex box suspended above Broadgate in Coventry city centre for a week and this year the idea was for Stuart to run a marathon every day for a week inside a giant hamster wheel. If that wasn’t enough to spark some interest the hamster wheel was to be balanced on one end of a giant see-saw. On the other end there would be a donation pot for the people of Coventry to make donations towards Macmillan. As the donations increased the see-saw would start to tip and on day 7 with around £7000 in the pot the wheel would be lifted up.
