IAN SINGLETON

About me

I suffer from aphasia - the inability to understand or produce speech, as a result of brain damage. Before the stroke I was first pick for the pub quiz team. Now I’m on the substitutes bench.

Experience

In 2003 I co-conceived icanplayit an early e-learning business to teach music instrument playing online. It covered guitar and keyboard and clarinet lessons. The business attracted early-stage money but failed to find a sustainable route to income.

I am a Stroke survivor a failed entrepreneur and old-fashioned video director. I was educated at Manchester Grammar School and St Johns College Oxford.

Quotes and comments

"Ian turns dreams into reality. He sees the essence and value of an idea before anyone else and has the skills to turn that into digital images that delight and astound people. He has an instinctive knack for new technology and is a sound judge of where and when it can best be used. When Ian gets involved, things happen fast." (SJ)

'Ian is a storyteller in person and on video. He gives me different book every time I meet him but I haven't finished a single one of them.' (CB)

"Ian is a historian, director, comedian, adventurer... we have shared some great adventures."(RJ)

"Ian is a voracious learner, thinker, producer, writer and a person who knows things"(RG)

Running marathons

In January 2014. I ran the Dubai marathon. 4:17 (four hours and seventeen mins - all marathon runners here obsessed with times).

Four months after it, I had a stroke my blood pressure was unmeasurable. After eleven years. I’m still disabled, before the stroke I was right handed. My right hand still doesn’t work.