Tagged with: diversity
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Improving socio-economic diversity at the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ
Alan Davey
Controller, ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ exists to represent the whole of the UK. Because we are funded by everyone via the licence fee we must make programmes that educate, entertain and inform all our audiences. This means whatever your interest in music, be it classical, pop or folk; whatever you taste in television, be it d...
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Diversity: more to do to better reflect our audiences
Tunde Ogungbesan
Head of Diversity, Inclusion and Succession
When Justin Trudeau was asked why it was so important to him to have a gender balanced cabinet, his answer was simple: βBecause itβs 2015β. The Canadian Prime Minister was making the point bluntly that itβs impossible for organisations that represents society to pay lip service to diversity.
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Aim High with ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Arabic's AimHigh trainee scheme
Ellis Palmer
Journalist, ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ News (World Online)
As ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Arabic accepts applications for AimHigh: its first ever trainee scheme in the region for journalists with disabilities, Ellis Palmer, Journalist, ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ News (World Online) blogs about his experience working for the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ.
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Twoβs Employable Me: life with Cerebral Palsy
Nicola Golding
Twenty-six year old Nicola was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy at the age of two. She is one eight disabled job seekers whose stories are told in ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Twoβs Employable Me to take on the (seemingly impossible) challenge of finding employment.
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CBeebies Pablo: empowering young people with autism
Kay Benbow
Controller, CBeebies
Kay Benbow introduces the first animated TV series to star an autistic character and the first TV programme with an all-autistic core cast.
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The mothers of invention β Can women change the world?
Fiona Crack
Editor ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ 100 Women season
In its fifth year, the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ 100 Women season looks for solutions. Can you help?
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ welcomes talented TV professionals from diverse backgrounds to its Commissioner Development Programme
Fatima Salaria
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Commissioning Editor, Specialist Factual
Fatima Salaria is the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs Commissioning Editor for Religion and Ethics and took part in the first Commissioner Development Programme. Here she meets this year's participants to talk about what they can expect.
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Disability Works: The idea behind the pitch
Johny Cassidy
Producer, ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Business Unit
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ News producer, Johny Cassidy, explains how sometimes 'you identify an important issue at the right time and the story just seems to take off'. As is what happened with 'Disability Works' an idea he pitched to explore the experiences of disabled people in the workforce and as consumers.
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Directing The Break II
Nour Wazzi
Director, The Break II
The Break II is an exciting collaboration between ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Writersroom and ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Drama Production to make five original short monologues for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Three, written by up-and-coming BAME writing talent from across the UK.
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Seeing in the New Year across the UK with a special recording of Auld Lang Syne
Ken MacQuarrie
Director, Nations and Regions
Director, Nations and Regions Ken MacQuarrie introduces a special recording celebrating the diversity of radio presenters across the UK.
