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Lex Gillette

Standing On The Shoulders

Release Date: 11/19/2020

Lex Gillette show art 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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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 show art 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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Standing On The Shoulders

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Lemn Sissay show art 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 show art 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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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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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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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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Aleks Krotoski chats to Beth Comstock about the giants that shaped her career. 

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Lex Gillette is a blind Paralympics champion in the long jump category. He started losing his sight aged seven and despite ten different surgeries at the age of eight doctors told him there was nothing they could do. At school his coach introduced him to long jump, which he excelled at, collecting medals at all levels. 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.

Lex talked to Aleks about the challenge of adjusting to his circumstances at such a young age, the encouragement he received from his mother to maintain his independence, and about the process he uses to navigate the world and his chosen sport. He also talked about an inspirational pastor whose YouTube videos help him keep focus on his training and his writing. 

Find out more about Lex: https://lexgillette.com/

Follow Lex on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LexGillette