Britain’s Got Talent winner Lee Ridley - aka Lost Voice Guy – comes to Aberystwyth Arts Centre this week.

The first stand-up comedian to use a communication aid, Lee will take to the Great Hall stage on Friday at 8pm.

Lee, who was diagnosed with a neurological form of cerebral palsy when he was a baby, is unable to talk, so he delivers his routine with the aid of a synthesiser, with some jokes pre-entered and others added during his set.

Lee made his first stand-up appearance in February 2012. He has performed in some of the UK’s most popular comedy venues as well as in solo shows at festivals including the Edinburgh Fringe, the Brighton Fringe, Glasgow International Comedy Festival, and the Comedy Festival at Leicester, Nottingham and Liverpool. 

As well as winning Britain’s Got Talent this year (the first comedian to do so), Lee also won the BBC New Comedy Award in 2014 and his TV and Radio credits have included The One Show, Voice Of The People and BBC At The Edinburgh Festivals.

Ability – the Radio 4 series that Lee stars in and co-wrote with Katherine Jakeways – has just been recommissioned for a second series.

The show is recommended for those aged 14 years and above.

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