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BCIDN and FIVE event sparks debate about disability in children's programming
22nd February 2010
BCIDN Chair Oona King, Head of Diversity at Channel 4, talks to Five Children's Commissioner Nick Wilson and CBBC presenter Ceri Burnell at an event held by the BCIDN and FIVE to encourage the Children's TV industry to ensure disability is more widely reflected in their programmes and programme making teams.
The event brought together commissioners and producers from across the UK TV industry. Speakers included Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, who featured in the popular Milkshake animated children's series Hana's Helpline as a disabled athlete, Bafta award-winning writer Alison Hulme (Summer Hill), producer Jonathan Frisby, who worked with Ade Adepitan on the children's wildlife show Tiger Tiger, and Milkshake trainee Nicola Dormer, who was FIVE's first disabled trainee.
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