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by 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?by Mik Scarlet
After a crazy few weeks rehearsing for and performing in the Graeae Theatre Company’s production of Rhinestone Rollers – Wheels On Broadway I thought I deserved a day off. As I sat flicking through the channels on my Sky+ I stumbled upon an episode of a favourite show from my
Read More about We come a short way baby!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
Read More about Out of Touch?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
Read More about Disability & TV – The Mik Scarlet Lecture – Part 3by 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
Read More about Disability & TV – The Mik Scarlet Lecture – Part 2