Tagged with: Disability
Posts (10)
Wanted: A Very Personal Assistant – ‘We felt like long lost friends!’
Emily Staunton and Jasmine Rankin
Tattoos, partying and crude comedy: meet the new, younger generation of carers
Marvellous: Q&A with Lou Macari
Lou Macari
'He looks nothing like me!' Lou Macari tells of his first impressions of Tony Curran who would play him in BBC Two's uplifting drama, starring Toby Jones.
Best Of Men: Acting in a Paralympic drama
David Proud
Actor
As an actor there are some auditions you are invited to where you want the part so much it's hard to control your excitement and nerves. For me The Best Of Men was one of those. I had known of Dr Guttmann ever since playing wheelchair basketball at the Guttmann Centre (now Stoke Mandeville S...
Britain's Biggest Hoarders: Lifting the stigma for mum
Jasmine Harman
Presenter
My mum's house had become so full of clutter that she couldn't get through the front door without a struggle. She was sleeping on a scrap of floor in the hall as each of her five bedrooms were inaccessible.
Making Rita Simons: My Daughter, Deafness and Me
Sophie Leonard
Producer/Director
When we approached Rita about making Rita Simons: My Daughter, Deafness and Me, she was initially unsure about the amount of exposure it would bring her then five-year-old daughter Maiya. Rita Simons: My Daughter, Deafness and Me Maiya was diagnosed with hearing loss at six months old...
Harry's Arctic Heroes: My North Pole adventure
Martin Hewitt
On completing a ski race I arrived back at the mountain lodge to publish the results on my blog and noticed an email from a friend, which was entitled "North Pole". My heartbeat raised and I became immediately excited. For the first time since my injury I knew without hesitation that this wa...
Between Life And Death: Why medicine is art as much as science
David Menon
About 18 months ago, I was approached by the BBC asking whether we would be interested in making a programme about critical illness, death, and dying. I work as a consultant in the Neurosciences Critical Care Unit (NCCU) at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. Our unit is one of the largest i...
Sectioned: Filming inside a mental health unit
Ben Anthony
Director
I'm really interested in making documentaries that go into worlds we seldom get to see, so I was thrilled to be asked to work with producer Lucy Cohen on an observational film made inside a psychiatric hospital. I'd also had an old mate who'd been in and out of psychiatric hospital many time...
The daily dilemmas for doctors at Great Ormond Street
Charlotte Moore
Controller, BBC One
Almost 10 years ago I produced and directed a BBC television series called Living With Cancer. The team and I spent two years at the Middlesex Hospital following the experiences of a group of patients as they confronted the realities of living with a life-threatening disease. One of the most rem...
Dancing On Wheels: 'I never thought I'd dance again'
Harry Lansdown
Commissioning Editor
Hello. I'm the commissioning editor for factual programmes on BBC Three. A key part of my job is to find and help manage programme ideas that feel distinctive and original. Disability is a subject that can easily be forgotten or pushed aside by the mainstream. But at BBC Three we've aimed to ...
