‘I’m really grateful for that friendship: Katarina Johnson-Thompson speaks about schoolfriend Jodie Comer

Great Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson is the double World champion and double Commonwealth Games heptathlon champion. This year she won the silver medal in Paris, her first ever Olympic medal.

Katarina joined Anita Rani on Woman’s Hour to talk about her memoir, Unbroken – My Journey from Despair to Glory, and discussed the pressures of representing Great Britain as a 19 year old at the London 2012 Olympics, and the relentless resilience and determination she has showed to come back from career-threatening injuries.

She also spoke about the importance of her childhood friends, including her friend and actor Jodie Comer.

You can hear the full interview on BBC Sounds - it’s the Woman’s Hour episode from 21 November.