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by Mik Scarlet
Right, it seems that the entire media wants to focus on the tragedy of the disabled, whether we have managed to triumph over it or not. I have always been against this kind of coverage but it seems that people who agree with me are being ignored. So if everyone
Read More about How do you like dese tragedy?by Mik Scarlet
I am currently at the start of a marathon encoding session, with a pile of old VHS tapes filled with some of the programs I recorded for TV. I thought I’d lost them, but my Mum found them all in the loft of our family home. It’s weird experience watching
Read More about The Upload begins….by Mik Scarlet
Recently I was challenged by someone claiming “You’re Mik Scarlet!”. They held their mobile phone up and showed me a photograph of little old me that was taken as part of the Re-Framing Disability exhibition. Now it’s not my favourite photo, but before I had the chance to say anything
Read More about Chairman Scarlet Speaks…by Mik Scarlet
A few months ago I had a meeting with a BBC exec who works with talent, to see if the BBC might be interested in getting me back on our TV screens. We had a productive chat, and fingers crossed things might happen. One thing that threw me was the
Read More about Blonde Ambitionsby Mik Scarlet
I spent the weekend encoding and uploading a pile of old video clips from my TV presenting career, as well as editing a new showreel. I’ve now got that online too, and here it is…. What was really weird was having to sit and watch myself presenting, especially as the
Read More about Showreel-tasticby Mik Scarlet
At the minute I am transferring some of my previous TV work into the digital domain so I can up load it on to You Tube, in the hope that it might get me back into the media. While most of what I did was really very good, even if
Read More about With age comes wizdom… or what was I like?