with Andrew Lee, Director of People First
What’s been your best job?
Director of People First (self-advocacy)
If you were stuck on a desert island, and you could take one person and one object, who and what would they be?
My Wife Olcay and an Organ so i could learn to play organ music again
Who inspires you and why?
I had to think about this.
Alison Lapper because she showed disabled people can have a life like any other, home, family, children, job - even when the system tried and failed to prove otherwise
Where is your favourite place?
The New Forest
Which celebrity would you want to play you in a film?
Elton John
What was the last CD you bought?
Now (that’s what I call) music 62
What are you reading?
I don't read books - it comes from teachers criticizing my reading when I was young 0
What’s your favourite film?
Mr and Mrs Smith
'Big Brother' - Treat or Trash?
Trash
Pets – yes or no?
No
If you were on Death Row, what would be your final meal?
Roast Beef Yorkshire pudding with all the trimmings at Harrods
How would you want to be remembered?
As a disability rights campaigner that told bad jokes to his friends and that young people with learning difficulties could use what had happened in my life to prove dreams can come true even when the system tries to prove otherwise
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