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Oh, to be an able bodied older woman!!??

January 12, 2011 by Mik Scarlet

I was very pleased to hear that Miriam O’Reilly won her case for age discrimination yesterday. It is time that the BBC’s obsession with youth was ended, but I do feel it is important to point out that however bad it might be to be a female presenter/broadcaster of advancing

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Disability, discrimination, media, Miriam O'Reilly

Disability & TV – The Mik Scarlet Lecture – Part 3

December 8, 2010 by Mik Scarlet

Before I explore the subject of content, disability and television I feel I must just quickly give my solution of the issue of the title of the C4 show “Freaks of Nature”, that I posed in my last blog. The answer is a question mark. “Freaks of Nature?” not only

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Channel 4, Disability, discrimination, equality, Freaks of Nature, inside incredible athletes, media, olympics, paralympics, portrayal, Royal Television Society, Television, TV, words, writing

Disability & TV – The Mik Scarlet Lecture – Part 2

December 4, 2010 by Mik Scarlet

In my last blog I hope I helped to explain why most disabled people find the use of the words brave and courageous in television output offensive, and why these words can have an effect the the mental health of anyone during the process of readjustment that occurs after coming

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Channel 4, Disability, Freak, Freaks of Nature, inside incredible athletes, media, paralympics, Royal Television Society, sad, social model, Television, that paralympic show, tragic, TV, words

Television & Disability – The Mik Scarlet Lecture – Part 1

December 2, 2010 by Mik Scarlet

Last night watched the Huw Wheldon Lecture with Dr Brian Cox OBE. As my wife Diane is currently studying for a degree in Physics, and so I am becoming interested in science by osmosis, we tend to catch whatever programs he is involved with. Not only is the Coxster one

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Disability, discrimination, Dr Brain Cox, euthanasia, Huw Wheldon, illness, Lecture, media, Physics, portrayal, Royal Television Society, Science, Television, TV

Wedding Blues

November 16, 2010 by Mik Scarlet

So, Prince William and Kate Middleton are getting married eh? The country goes Hooray. As Philip Scofield said today on This Morning, “Everybody loves good news”. But then isn’t that part of what the Royal family is there for in the modern UK? To take our eyes off times of

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