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Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Jason Arday

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

On paper, a professorship at Cambridge is not an obvious outcome for a person who cannot read or write by the age of 18. It is also not what we might expect for an eleven-year-old boy who cannot speak. But after listening to Jason Arday's account of his early life, academic excellence sounds more like destiny. Now a sociologist at one of the world's most prestigious universities, Jason speaks to James about perseverance, love and the importance of the collective.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:06.0

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0:22.3

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0:27.2

Selected locations.

0:28.3

Exclusions and tis and seas apply.

0:32.1

This is a global player original podcast.

0:47.8

Okay. Global Player Original Podcast. Hello and welcome to Full Disclosure, podcast project designed.

0:51.9

We've heard this spiel before to let me spend a lot more time than I'd ever get on the radio with somebody that I fully expect to find fascinating.

0:59.3

I'd just take a moment before I introduce this week's guest to remind you that sometimes, because so many very, very famous people are kind enough to come off full disclosure,

1:08.8

we build up a following in an audience that then allows me to introduce you to people

1:13.2

that I know you're going to be fascinated by,

1:16.5

but whose name perhaps you won't recognise at the first mention.

1:21.1

I think that's a fairly accurate description of you, Jason R. Day?

1:25.0

I think so. I think so, James. Yeah.

1:27.3

Let me begin with a paragraph I read

1:29.5

that prompted me to find out more about you. Diagnosed with autism and global development delay

1:37.3

in his early years, Jason Rade was unable to speak until he was 11 years old and could not read or write until he was 18.

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