Listen: Exploring the human behind the hero, Canadian icon Terry Fox

Guests: Sean Menard, Toronto-based filmmaker and director of 'Run Terry Run' and Kirsten Fox, a director at the Terry Fox Foundation and Terry Fox's niece.

Terry Fox is a Canadian institution.

His crown of thick brown spirals, heathergrey 2.5 inch shorts, 'Marathon of Hope' shirt and prosthetic walking leg he fashioned to support athletic capacity are legendary markers of a truly extraordinary human being.

But there's so much more to Fox than just these instantly recognizable symbols.

Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope is an incredible feat that has captivated Canadians young and old for decades, but who was he really when the media vans dispersed and the crowds went home? Sean Menard's newest documentary 'Run Terry Run' aims to show viewers the human behind the hero using 45-year-old footage that hitherto sat unseen in a Fox family storage locker.

Today on This Matters, we speak with Toronto-based filmmaker and a director at the Terry Fox Foundation, Sean Menard as well as Terry Fox's niece, Kirsten Fox, to discuss Terry's prevailing legacy, the tech-primitive world of the 1980s and what 'Run Terry Run' taught Kirsten about her late uncle.

This episode was mixed by Paulo Marques