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 introdu

Martha Lane Fox

Nov 5th, 2020 29m 7s

Martha Lane Fox is an entrepreneur and internet activist who first made her name with lastminute.com. She’s had a fascinating and varied career, revolutionising the Karaoke industry, and helping the UK government transform its digital service.

Ytasha Womack

Oct 22nd, 2020 33m 26s

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. Ytasha frequently lectures on the subject across the world. Her book

Roman Mars

Oct 8th, 2020 32m 26s

Roman Mars is an American radio producer and host of the podcasts 99% Invisible, which has been telling stories about design and the things that shape our world for a decade. Both have been credited with defining a new movement of independent r

Lemn Sissay

Sep 24th, 2020 38m 23s

Lemn 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

Anab Jain

Jun 10th, 2020 21m 28s

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. ---------- Anab Jain is

Jude Kelly

May 27th, 2020 27m 44s

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’. Jude Kelly is a British theatre direct

Rachel Weiss

May 13th, 2020 20m 41s

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

Anna Higgs

Apr 29th, 2020 34m 56s

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 iconi

Beth Comstock

Apr 15th, 2020 33m 57s

Aleks Krotoski chats to innovator and visionary Beth Comstock about the giants that shaped her career. Beth Comstock's mission is to understand what’s next, navigate change and help people and organizations do the same. By cultivating a habit

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Season 1 Trailer

Mar 12th, 2020 3m 11s

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.

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