Jason Arday

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.