Amazing Starts Here

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If you could champion a Game Changer, someone helping transform the UK, who would YOU choose? Aimee Fuller – two-time Olympian, author and broadcaster – presents Season 3 of The National Lottery 'Game Changers’ podcast. This extra special series celebrates the 30th birthday of The National Lottery, as Aimee travels the UK to hear from exceptional individuals who have been transforming communities over the last three decades, with a little help from The National Lottery. Including the music initiative providing a launchpad for artists like chart-topper Rizzle Kicks and supported by Rag ‘N’ Bone Man. There’s also Alice Dearing, the first black woman to swim for Team GB at an Olympic Games.  Meanwhile, at Jodrell Bank the universe is revealed in bold new ways to the public with the help of a pioneering physicist, remarkable things also emerge from the earth thanks to the brains behind the Eden Project.  Hear too from well-known names like Sir Tony Robinson, Adele Roberts and Clare Balding, and why they are championing our Game Changers and their incredible work.  Be inspired. Follow to catch every episode.  Game Changers is brought to you by National Lottery players, who raise £30 million each week for good causes across the UK. For more information about projects that help ordinary people, visit: https://www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk (https://www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/)  A Listen (www.listen.co.uk) production for The National Lottery.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

The National Lottery

Category

health & fitness · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Jun 2022

Latest episode

18 Dec 2024

Latest episodes

9 of 26 episodes have a transcript.

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   18 Dec 2024TRANSCRIPT

   Audio Active: Changing lives through music

   Game Changers host Aimee Fuller meets Adam Joolia, founder of Audio Active, to explore how his innovative music projects empower young talent and change lives.

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   11 Dec 2024TRANSCRIPT

   Nandi Jola: Telling Our Stories

   Nandi Jola, a poet and playwright, empowers marginalized youth through art and tackles women trafficking with her 'Nandi J Project', telling their stories through innovative storytelling and adaptation.

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   4 Dec 2024TRANSCRIPT

   Black Swimming Association: Swimming for all

   Alice Dearing, Olympic swimmer and Black Swimming Association co-founder, shares her incredible journey and reveals how she's helping to dispel stereotypes and get more black and Asian people into the water.

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Audio Active: Changing lives through music

Published 18 Dec 2024 · Transcript excerpt

[…] He loves telling the story about how he walked into Red Veg Berger's in Brighton, which is a veggie burger joint. And he met one of my colleagues, Tom Hines, who still works with us today. And this is going back, you know, 18 years or so. And he said, Tom became a sensei really. Like basically, I think that Jordan was, I hope you won't mind me saying, one of those archetypes of young people who are so talented and disruptive in their eyes in a good way that makes them a bit of a handful to deal with in school. And quite often you see young people who everything that makes them really exciting potential artists is also the stuff that makes it difficult for them to manage in school in formal sayings. […]

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