Standing On The Shoulders

Standing on the Shoulders is a podcast about giants. Not the kind you run into in fairytales...but the more metaphorical, inspirational kind - whose symbolic shoulders you can stand on to reach greater heights. Across each episode Aleks Krotoski chats to innovators and visionaries about what they’ve learned from inspirational giants that shaped their lives.

Lex Gillette 11/19/2020

Lex Gillette 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. /episode/index/show/standingontheshoulders/id/16873973

Martha Lane Fox 11/05/2020

Martha Lane Fox 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. /episode/index/show/standingontheshoulders/id/16694096

Ytasha Womack 10/22/2020

Ytasha Womack 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. /episode/index/show/standingontheshoulders/id/16502768

Roman Mars 10/08/2020

Roman Mars /episode/index/show/standingontheshoulders/id/16321247

Lemn Sissay 09/24/2020

Lemn Sissay 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. /episode/index/show/standingontheshoulders/id/16138340

Anab Jain 06/10/2020

Anab Jain 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. /episode/index/show/standingontheshoulders/id/14768576

Jude Kelly 05/27/2020

Jude Kelly 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’. /episode/index/show/standingontheshoulders/id/14585270

Rachel Weiss 05/13/2020

Rachel Weiss 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. /episode/index/show/standingontheshoulders/id/14399945

Anna Higgs 04/29/2020

Anna Higgs 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. /episode/index/show/standingontheshoulders/id/14198918

Beth Comstock 04/15/2020

Beth Comstock Aleks Krotoski chats to Beth Comstock about the giants that shaped her career. /episode/index/show/standingontheshoulders/id/13918484

Season 1 Trailer 03/12/2020

Season 1 Trailer Coming soon, Standing on the Shoulders. Aleks Krotoski chats to innovators and visionaries about what they’ve learned from the inspirational giants that shaped their lives. /episode/index/show/standingontheshoulders/id/13521539

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