All Disability articles – Page 42
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TRADE TALK - In a Real world
After winning a£1 million order to make Front Room at Pebble Mill, Tony Steyger is leaving the BBC for Victoria Real, reports Dominic Timms.
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CUTTING EDGE TO FEATURE TWO NEW DISABILITY DOCS
Channel 4 has ordered 2 x 30-minute documentaries focusing on disability as part of the forthcoming 16-part run of Cutting Edge. Love is Blind is made by Hannah Berryman for Carlton
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Partially sighted gain from BBC/DTI web deal
The BBC has given the Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) web technology to enhance internet access for the partially sighted free of charge, enabling it to meet requirements set out
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C4 unveils disability initiatives
Channel 4 has unveiled two new initiatives to encourage people with disabilities to work in television, writes Wale Azeez.The first of the schemes, the C4 TV Skills Course, is being run
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EDINBURGH: NEXT GENERATION
What happened to last year's list of twenty-something hotshots? David Wood charts their progress, while Leigh Holmwood gets on the trail of some of last year's TVYP young guns as they set off on their careers.
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Soap rubs off
Brookside an educational show? 'Tis so, says Liz Warner, commissioning editor at Channel 4, who argues that educational programming must quit the ghetto to survive.
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First Circle to chronicle Deaf Century for Channel 4
Channel 4 has commissioned First Circle to produce a 3 x 60-minute series chronicling the experiences of deaf people over the last 100 years, writes Tim Dams.The Deaf Century is based
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Radio 4 lines up disabled comedy first
BBC Radio 4 has lined up a new four-part comedy series it hopes will become the disabled equivalent of successful R4 and BBC 2 series, Goodness Gracious Me, writes John Plunkett.Drop
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OFF THE RECORD - PC plod
As former England coach Glenn Hoddle knows to his cost, sensitivity is a key requirement when referring to people with disability. Broadcast hacks found themselves in similarly hot water last week
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C4 boosts budgets as funding formula ends
Channel 4 is to boost its programming budget by£43 million and pump an extra£44 million into digital expansion, marketing and film production, in its first year without the funding
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C4 INTRODUCES DISABLED TALENT DATABASE
Channel 4 is launching a new disability talent database as part of an effort to offer disabled people a fast-track route into programmes and programme-making. The database, comprising actors, presenters, journalists,