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Right to Die? Right to Live is better!

April 18, 2013 by Mik Scarlet

Yet again the press is filled with the story of a campaigner who are going to court to end the terrible suffering of their life as a disabled person. This it is Paul Lamb who is claiming that his life is should be ended at the hands of the medical

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Assisted Suicide, benefits, depression, Disability, disabled, discrimination, equality, euthanasia, illness, mik scarlet, mindfullness, Pain, Paul Lamb, portrayal, pride

The Upload begins….

May 17, 2012 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

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: CBBC, Channel 4, children's TV, Disability, Luke Jeans, mik scarlet, paralympics, portrayal, Television, Tiny Epic

Epithany

March 23, 2011 by Mik Scarlet

I am writing this at 5.15am after laying in bed watching the green numbers on my bedside clock inexorably click forward for many hours, my head full of thoughts. I found myself unable to sleep after watching the Channel 4 program Katie: My Beautiful Friends, which I was looking forward

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Channel 4, charity, courage, Disability, discrimination, equality, inspiration, Katie Piper, Katie: my beautiful fiends, Language, media, mik scarlet, portrayal, Scars, Television, tragic, words

Out of Touch? Part 2

March 14, 2011 by Mik Scarlet

I would like to say sorry for being away for a while (mad busy) and thanks to everyone who commented on my last blog. I’m so glad that there are people who do believe that how we are portrayed in the media is as important as just being portrayed. Part

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: courage, determination, Disability, equality, inspiration, Language, paralympics, portrayal, sport

Out of Touch?

March 1, 2011 by Mik Scarlet

I regularly run a session of disability awareness training for various companies, and am about to venture into training for media companies. I got the gig after I passed on some comments about language and disability to a TV production company. But before I begin advising them, I must admit

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Disability, discrimination, media, paralympics, portrayal, presenting, representation, social model, Television, TV

Saints, Sinners and Commissioning Editors

January 10, 2011 by Mik Scarlet

After a weekend of trying to stick to my new year’s resolution of keeping fit, that involved a four hour wheel in and around Central London, I have spent the day stuck on the sofa with back pain. When they say “feel the burn” I don’t think they mean it

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Disability, Homes Under The Hammer, portrayal, Saints and Scroungers, Wright Stuff

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