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Podcast: How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Episode: Ade Adepitan - ‘At 16 I’d seen more violence than anyone should ever see’
Description: TW: contains references to racist abuse and racially-aggravated violence.
This is probably one of my favourite episodes of all time, and I don’t say that lightly. The former championship wheelchair basketball star turned TV presenter, Ade Adepitan, came into the How To Fail studio with an open heart and a moving story to tell. He blew us all away.
Ade talks about growing up working-class, Black and disabled and how the intersection of these left him feeling he had to prove himself twice as much. He talks about letting his parents down and a fam...