Photograph by Richard Young:
Paul Atherton and Helen Lederer: at Paul’s 37th birthday party in the exclusive 43 South Molton Street  
In this modern age of psychobabble and technospeak Paul reminds us its just good storytelling and great people that gets excellent programming made.
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Biog:
 
Paul’ s story is hardly a rags to riches story.  Rather a journey through life that most would rather not experience and those that would, never get the chance too.
 
Having been abandoned at 3 months old in a tent in an derelict airport in Cardiff, Paul had the good fortune to be found, passed to Social Services and then fostered by a white family who lived in a small Village in South Wales called Ystrad Mynach.
 
Being “the only Black in the Village” he soon came to realise the true impacts of racism in all its incarnations.  Struggling with Parents of his friends who were refusing to let the “Black Boy” play with their sons or daughters.
 
His upbringing, as Paul puts it “dispelled any notion that I was different to anybody else - I had a different colour skin and one that most people wished to acquire especially during the months from May to September.  My Mother instilled into me the notion that we are all Equal regardless of colour and nothing should interfere with my goals.”
 
It is with this ethos that he engaged with life.
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Paul Atherton
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