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Episode 7 - Phillipe Crinelli, Part 1
Philippe Crinelli begins the deeply personal story of a life shaped by difference, resilience, and constant reinvention.
Born in Paris in 1953, Philippe contracted polio at the age of one, leaving his left leg permanently affected. Philippe reflects on growing up in postwar Paris. He shares stories of working as a vegetarian cook on cargo ships, learning to feed meat-eating sailors, and how these early experiences shaped his independence and resilience.
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Episode 8- Phillipe Crinelli, Part 2
Philippe's third book, "Moi, Julie, jambe polio" (Me, Julie, polio leg), published in April 2025, emerged from a moment of profound irony.
After a serious motorcycle accident, Philippe discovered that his polio-affected leg – the leg he later named Julie at age of seventy, the leg he had spent years trying to hide and compensate for – was the only limb that came through unharmed.
Everything else was broken, but Julie survived intact. This stark reversal became impossible to ignore. For the first time in his life, Philippe gave Julie a voice, writing the book in first person from the perspective of his wounded leg.
The book explores the exhausting price he paid for appearing "normal," the strategies he developed to hide his disability, and the decades of silence between himself and the part of him that had been there since the beginning.
At seventy-two, Philippe finally stopped running from Julie and started listening. The result is his most vulnerable and honest work – a conversation with the wound he had spent a lifetime trying to forget.