Tom shakespeare, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, its great to be here. Great to have you. In your personal life and professional life everything has been intertwined in terms of your campaigning work, your academic work. I just wonder whether you ever, for a moment, considered going into something entirely disconnected from your own personal circumstances such as accountancy, law, geology . There are short people, restricted growth people in all of those professions. There are farmers, teachers, solicitors, everything. But i did not go that way. So as a social scientist i have always been interested in what ive experienced and disability has to be top of the list. Let me ask you about growing up. Your family has its own history which is important to talk about, i think. Your grandfather, it seems, experienced a mutation, a genetic mutation. My father. He was born in 1927. William shakespeare, unfortunate name. And his father, geoffrey, who was a Junior Minister in the liberal governmen
Tom shakespeare, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Its great to be here. Its great to have you here. Now, in your personal life, in your professional life, everything has been intertwined in terms of your campaigning work, your academic work. I just wonder whether you ever for a moment considered going into something entirely disconnected from your own personal circumstances, Something Like accountancy, law, geology. And you know what . There are short people, restricted growth people, in all of those professions. There are farmers, teachers, solicitors, everything, who are short. But i didnt go that way. And so, as a social scientist, ive always been interested in what ive experienced. And so, obviously, disability has to be top of the list. Let me ask you about growing up, because your family has its own history, which is important, i think, to talk about. Your grandfather, it seems, experienced a mutation, a Genetic Mutation. My father. So he was born in 1927. William shakespeare unfo
Everything has been intertwined in terms of your campaigning work, your academic work. Ijust wonder whether you ever, for a moment, considered going into something entirely disconnected from your own personal circumstances . Something like accountancy, law, geology . You know what, there are short people, restricted growth people in all of those professions. There are farmers, teachers, solicitors, everything. But i did not go that way. So as a social scientist, ive always been interested in what others experience and so obviously disability has to be top of the list. Let me ask you about growing up. Your family has its own history, which is important to talk about, i think. Your grandfather, it seems, experienced a mutation, a genetic mutation. My father. So, he was born in 1927. William shakespeare unfortunate name. And his father, geoffrey, who was a Junior Minister in the liberal government the last time the liberals were in coalition was very worried about it and was very upset ab
You ever, for a moment, considered going into something entirely disconnected from your own personal circumstances . Something like accountancy, law, geology . You know what, there are short people, restricted growth people in all of those professions. There are farmers, teachers, solicitors, everything. But i did not go that way. So as a social scientist, ive always been interested in what others experience and so obviously disability has to be top of the list. Let me ask you about growing up. Your family has its own history, which is important to talk about, i think. Your grandfather, it seems, experienced a mutation, a genetic mutation. My father. So, he was born in 1927. William shakespeare unfortunate name. And his father, geoffrey, who was a Junior Minister in the liberal government the last time the liberals were in coalition was very worried about it and was very upset about it because suddenly his child was short. The reason i mention the grandfather first because isnt it the