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On Friday August 22nd I took part in the monthly BBC Ouch Podcast, with presenters Simon Minty and Shannon Murray. It was great to be back at the BBC, to be in a studio covering stories about disability and to be working with such great people. However the whole experience
Read More about Memories of Representation!This Friday I am appearing on ITV’s This Morning commenting on that day’s newspaper stories. The show starts at 10.30am and the section I’m in right at the start. So if you’re in tune in, and if not watch it on the ITV Player. I’ll post the link after it
Read More about Watch out… Mik’s about!I just had to put finger to keypad to express my feelings over a phenomenon that has recently appeared on the nation’s TV screens… adverts featuring disabled people! During my career in the media, which will enter it’s 25th year in 2013, I have discussed the lack of disabled people
Read More about Whatever next?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….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 AmbitionsNow where to start? As I’ve been crazy busy recently the list of things “Grinding My Gears” is quite long. The first was C4’s Sainsbury’s Super Saturday. This music and sports show was to celebrate the launch of ticket sales for the Paralympics and was aired over a whole weekend
Read More about Ranting Round-Up No.1
