thus the thing about the mctaggart lecture.i was speaking on behalf of a community and that's all i tried to do and all three of these people actually read the speech before i did it it and all three gave notes on how to get the speech as strong as can be and there is a very big reason to be angry here. that the cdn set this target with broadcasters of doubling disability by this year. in fact delayed a year by covid. and there was just massive, massive failures that instead of the sort of 5%, 10% incremental kleap that we needed there was 0.9%. tv is claiming that it is opening its arms and it's claiming that's changing and it's not. it's just not. in your speech you directly address that and say that disability is the forgotten diversity, the one that everyone leaves out of speeches. briony, presumably you would agree with that. wholeheartedly. it is important we raise any diverse group because the problem with the media industry is its full of white homogenous cis men and we want to make sure that we are telling created dive

and at this year's edinburgh tv festival he gave mctaggart lecture, which is one of the most high—profileled 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 because it's true. and i think that the argument must be broken down into three parts. one is that if you look at figures for representation, disabled people are chronically underrepresented. you know, 20% of our population are disabled and yet only 8.2% of on—screen talent are disabled. 5.4% of people working behind the screens, and if you look at the executive level, it goes right down to 3.6%, so there is a real problem in terms of disabled people