the media show. hello. welcome to the media show. in a moment, we re going to talk about channel 4. its new headquarters in leeds havejust opened, and the government s consultation on whether to privatise it is into the final straight. we ll hear the case for privatisation from a former channel 5 ceo, and if you re wondering whether any of this has anything to do with the telly you watch, well, we ll unpack that, too. first, though, let s talk to jack thorne who is an acclaimed screenwriter who s worked on his dark materials, shameless and skins among many others. and at this year s edinburgh tv festival, he gave the mctaggart lecture, which is one of the most high profile moments for the tv industry, and in that, jack thorne was blunt, telling the audience tv has failed disabled people utterly and totally. jack, welcome to the media show. i wonder if you could explain to us in more detail why you came to that stark conclusion about the state of the tv industry. primarily bec
so there is a real problem in terms of disabled people being employed within the industry. the second thing, and related to that is the stories that are told about disability are few and far between. that i can only think of a handful of shows in my lifetime and it is very hard to get those disabled stories told. i ve been trying for years to tell disabled stories on conventional drama budgets, and every time i ve been able to tell a disabled story on tv, it s been with a reduced budget because that s the only way of doing it. and we need to be elevated and we need to be put into the mainstream, and the reason why, and this was i think the reason why this speech belonged this year, is that i think that what covid showed beyond anything else is the ableism is rife in our country and the fact that disabled people were shut out of conversations and ignored in the statistics as to how many deaths were put into different columns, how many disabled deaths, those with underlying h
hello this is bbc news. the headlines. emma raducanu makes history at the us open, beating leylah fernandez to become the first british woman to win a grand slam singles final in 44 years. the queen is among those congratulating the teenager following her stunning victory in new york, just months after finishing her a levels. the uk s health secretary says the government won t introduce vaccine passports in england, ahead of plans to protect the nhs from rising covid cases this winter. the trade union congress warns that up to 660,000 jobs could be at risk, if the uk fails to reach net zero carbon emissions as quickly as other countries. the anti immigration hungarian prime minister, viktor 0rban, meets pope francis in budapest. now on bbc news.it s the media show, with ros atkins. hello. welcome to the media show. in a moment, we re going to talk about channel 4. its new headquarters in leeds havejust opened, and the government s consultation on whether to privatise it is in
for ukraine. he said it should last five months and do real damage to russia s war machine. throughout our history we ve learned that when dictators do not pay the price for their aggression, they cause more chaos and engage in more aggression. they keep moving. and the cost, the threats to america and the world keep rising. we can t let this happen. the new military aid comes despite vague and ominous threats from russian president vladimir putin that he will retaliate against any country that interferes with his war in ukraine, which does not seem to have an end in sight. secretary-general gutierrez met with vladimir putin in moscow. he is in kyiv today meeting with volodymyr zelenskyy and touring the damage done to the surrounding region. he is trying to broker a peace deal and an immediate cease-fire in mariupol so civilians can evacuate. so far no word of any deal. as many as 2,000 troops remain trapped at the steel plant there longside civilians. this is ukraine s l