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Paul Atherton FRSA (born 20 March 1968) is a London based film & television producer and director who specialises in social commentary productions. He is known for being the only person to have screened a film on the Coca Cola billboard on Piccadily Lights at Piccadilly Circus with The Ballet of Change and having his video-diary Our London Lives taken into the permanent collection of the Museum of London. .

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Early life
Atherton was three months old when he was abandoned in a tent at a disused airport in Cardiff but placed with a white foster family shortly after.

He grew up in the village of Ystrad Mynach in South Wales attending Lewis School Pengam until the age of 16.

He left home at 15, when he spent time in children's homes and completed his "O" Levels. At 16 he set up home on his own against the wishes of Social Services and started work on a Youth Training Scheme in Howells (department store).

He was appointed the Welsh Young Conservatives Press Officer later that year and focused on addressing the issues of homelessness with a programme working with Sixth Forms in schools in Cardiff. At the age of 21, Atherton was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome. He attended Cardiff Business School and obtained a BSc Honours Degree in Business Administration in 1994.

While studying he set up a gift delivery company specialising in silk lingerie called "A Touch of Silk" in 1994 which became Vogue Magazine's Valentine gift of choice the following year.