The Paralympian basketball player and television presenter Ade Adepitan MBE will be visiting Ealing in April to talk about his life and work with Lorraine Heggessey, former Controller of BBC1.

He is the latest guest in the 'Pitzhanger Perspectives' series hosted by Pitzhanger Manor, with previous guests including author, political commentator and educationalist Anthony Seldon and TV presenters Angellica Bell and Konnie Huq who discussed growing up in Ealing.

Ade Adepitan MBE is an accomplished wheelchair basketball player, having been a member of the Great Britain team that won the bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens and the gold medal at the 2005 Paralympic World Cup.

In the years following his basketball career he has featured regularly as an actor, presenter and guest on national television programmes including for the BBC and Channel 4.

At Pitzhanger Manor he will discuss surviving childhood polio, growing up in east London and his services to disability sport, for which he was made a Member of the British Empire in 2005.

Pitzhanger Perspectives is a new series of conversations with contemporary thinkers, inspired by Sir John Soane who used Pitzhanger Manor to entertain his wide circle of friends, celebrities and potential clients - bringing together opera singers and politicians, academics and poets at eclectic dinners.

This event will be hybrid so you join from the comfort of your own home or hear Anthony in person at Pitzhanger Manor.

Online tickets (£7/£5) and in-person (£10/£7), taking place on Tuesday, April 26 at 6.30pm.

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