大象传媒

A moving account of the accident which left Melanie Reid tetraplegic.

Melanie writes a weekly column in The Times about her life as a tetraplegic. Six years ago, on Good Friday 2010, she was out cross-country riding in the Scottish countryside near her home in Stirlingshire. The horse refused a jump and she was thrown off - flipping her body. She broke her neck and back.

Since then Melanie Reid has been paralysed from the armpits down. In Private Passions, Melanie Reid talks about adjusting to life after her accident, 'a painful rebirth'. Although music has been important to her since childhood, after the accident she found that for several years she could not listen to it - the emotional effect was unbearable. Now, though, she finds music inspiring and sustaining.

First broacast: Private Passions, Radio 3, 27 March 2016.