2021-02-13T08:32:00+00:00
A trio of prominent diversity campaigners unpick last month’s Diamond diversity results
Below is a transcription for the hard of hearing of this week’s Newswrap podcast featuring diversity campaigners Caroline O’Neill, Andrew Roach and Marcus Ryder, hosted by Max Goldbart
Max [00:00:03] Hello and welcome to the Broadcast Newswrap. Your shorthand guide to the week’s TV news stories featuring the experts and campaigners you really should be listening to. The Diamond diversity figures were released last fortnight and were met with a chorus of frustration with disappointing slumps and plateaus for disability representation and representation of black, Asian and minority ethnic people. This week, campaigners Marcus Ryder, Caroline O’Neill and Andrew Roach join me, Max Goldbart, to analyse where the industry is going wrong and what can be done about the shortfalls. We take a deep dive into issues of intersectionality and there’s even a bit