Lex Gillette
Standing On The Shoulders
Lex Gillette is a blind Paralympics champion in the long jump category. He is the current world record holder in this field. He won the gold medal for long jump in the last Paralympics championship, which was in 2019 in Dubai. He's also a motivational speaker and a singer-songwriter.
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Martha Lane Fox
Standing On The Shoulders
Martha Lane Fox is an entrepreneur and internet activist who first made her name with lastminute.com. She is a director of Twitter and Non Executive Director of Chanel, Chancellor of the Open University, and a crossbench peer in the House of Lords.
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Ytasha Womack
Standing On The Shoulders
Ytasha Womack is an award-winning author, filmmaker, independent scholar, and dance therapist. She is a leading expert on Afrofuturism, the imagination and its applications, and frequently lectures on the subject across the world.
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Roman Mars
Standing On The Shoulders
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Lemn Sissay
Standing On The Shoulders
Lemn Sissay is a multi-award winning poet, performer, and chancellor at the University of Manchester. Lemn spoke to us about growing up with a foster family that rejected him, spending his teens in children’s homes, then realising at the age of 18 his entire life was a lie. He also spoke about a giant who gave him strength and inspiration throughout.
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Anab Jain
Standing On The Shoulders
Futurist, designer and filmmaker Anab Jain talks to Aleks Krotoski about the wild world of future-oriented thinking, our hyper-connected planet, and about an anthropologist and a mushroom that inspired much of her work.
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Jude Kelly
Standing On The Shoulders
Theatre director and producer Jude Kelly talked to Aleks about growing up in ‘50s Liverpool, finding and fostering revolutionary theatre, and about a woman many refer to as ‘The Mother of Modern Theatre’.
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Rachel Weiss
Standing On The Shoulders
Aleks Krotoski talks to L'Oréal's Rachel Weiss about bringing together her two great loves, make-up and technology, and about being an early adopter of podcasting, blogging, online dating, and beauty-blogging. She also talked about her undying love of a musical innovator and icon, who she considers her secret mentor.
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Anna Higgs
Standing On The Shoulders
Aleks Krotoski talks to Facebook's Anna Higgs about finding your way up the rickety climbing frame to success in a creative field, why she was sneered at at film school, and about an inspirational movie giant who produced some of the most icon movies ever made.
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Beth Comstock
Standing On The Shoulders
Aleks Krotoski chats to Beth Comstock about the giants that shaped her career.
info_outlineLemn Sissay is a poet, performer, and chancellor at the University of Manchester. His work ranges from volumes of poetry and plays to documentaries, and an autobiography. He’s been awarded an MBE for services to literature by the Queen, and in 2019 won the PEN Pinter Prize, given to writers who take an “unflinching, unswerving” view of the world.
Lemn talks to Aleks us about his childhood spent with a foster family who rejected him at the age of 12. He speaks about spending five years in four different children’s homes and realising at the age of 18 his entire life was a lie. He also speaks about transforming experience, however harrowing, into memory and meaning, and about the giant who gave him strength and inspiration throughout.