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TV's Gail Porter meets Mystery Jets' Blaine Harrison
All round good egg Gail Porter interviews Mystery Jets frontman Blaine Harrison in the fourth of our Dis Connected interview series.
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Blaine talks about the practicalities of being in a band if you're disabled. And guess which celeb he had as a poster on his bedroom wall when he was a teenager? mmm.
Gail knows a bit about bands being a music manager. And she talks about the difference in attitudes towards her mental health problems and the alopecia she had.
• In the next video, Blaine Harrison swaps chairs to become interviewer, the discrimination and rights barrister John Horan joins him as interviewee.
Dis Connected: the series in full
Watch all seven Dis Connected videos in a row as the interviewer baton is passed from one guest to the next. Each brings their own experience of disability to the discussion.
1. Telly's Trisha Goddard meets kids presenter Cerrie Burnell
2. Cerrie Burnell chats to actress Cara Readle
3. Cara Readle meets TV's Gail Porter
4. Gail Porter meets Mystery Jets' frontman Blaine Harrison
5. Blaine Harrison meets barrister John Horan
6. John Horan meets Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson
7. Tanni Grey-Thompson talks to Baroness Jane Campbell
1. Telly's Trisha Goddard meets kids presenter Cerrie Burnell
2. Cerrie Burnell chats to actress Cara Readle
3. Cara Readle meets TV's Gail Porter
4. Gail Porter meets Mystery Jets' frontman Blaine Harrison
5. Blaine Harrison meets barrister John Horan
6. John Horan meets Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson
7. Tanni Grey-Thompson talks to Baroness Jane Campbell
The Dis Connected series was produced by Kate Ansell.
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