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Sam Jackson

Sam Jackson

American football player

Aug 18, 2026

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Would
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love to.
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Yeah, so Saturday we got into Germany in Berlin about 10 a.m., 10.30, and really hit the ground running.
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We immediately went and got a snack at one of the host family homes, and then we went to kind of a common square.
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There was a market happening there.
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Um, and we did street evangelism, um, and, and the Grosjeans had kind of told us before that, uh, Berlin is very atheistic as a city.
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Um, and at least in my experience, definitely felt that, uh, there was just a lot of rejection, but on the bright side had some really good conversations, um, with, uh, Eunice was one of them.
speaker_1HOST
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So over to you.
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As a child, I grew up in a home where my mother was a Christian and my father a Sunday Catholic.
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From a young age, I experienced health problems.
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I was almost blind in my left eye.
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My pulmonary and digestive systems didn't work properly.
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I was hypermobile in all my joints and couldn't run or do other movements without injury that kids can generally do.
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People in my private and school life would say, What's wrong with you? Why can't you just be normal? As a teenager, my health and development problems continued, affecting my endocrine and reproductive systems.

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speaker_0ANNOUNCER
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can
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But I wonder, do you still get some pushback for doing these kind of more controversial, non-classical concerts? Or is it easier than it used to be?
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You will always get some people saying, why is there that problem? And people are completely entitled to ask that question.
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My response to that would be that in a season in which there are 86 concerts worldwide, I think that there is more than enough room to explore genres of music that lend themselves very well to an orchestral treatment.
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And prog rock, a genre that was birthed out of this country and has an amazing story, worked very well for us.
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But likewise, the centenary of the birth of Miles Davis, arguably the most important, the most influential jazz musician who ever lived.
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I think it would be a very sad day if we said that we couldn't celebrate Miles Davis at the proms.
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And indeed, that is what we will be doing.
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What about Radio 3 and what about the proms?

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