Jason Arday
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16 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 7 Aug
Jason Arday’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The reaction has been amazing and I'm truly grateful to everyone for their kind sentiment.
I always had that sense that, OK, there was something different about me.
And what my mum was brilliant at was making sure that I understood that that difference is a thing of beauty.
The period of kind of living non-verbally, to be quite honest, was a privilege.
I got to observe and absorb the world in a really unique way that most people don't get to.
So I got to observe.
If someone asked me what has been the highlight of this year, I would say being the guest editor of the Today programme is probably about as good as it gets.
right all right uh busy busy uh but all right all right how's things going your way
I was part of a programme, actually, which...
It doesn't really exist anymore, but it was called Seven Up at the time.
And Seven Up is basically when they follow you over the duration of your life.
So they follow you at kind of 7, 14, 21.
And I was pulled out of the project when I was 14.
You know, I didn't understand the language people used when they were lecturing.
I didn't understand text.
And you've got to remember that when I went to university, I was 20, but I had the reading age of a 12-year-old.
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