The BBC has launched a month-long season of films looking at the lives of young disabled people, featuring issues including parenting, hate crime, relationships and the qualities required of personal assistants.
Comedy panel gameshow
BBC Three’s Defying The Label season steers clear of pity or voyeurism and tells the compelling, untold stories of the lives of young disabled people. It launched on Monday 20th July with a factual drama called Don’t Take My Baby about a disabled couple’s struggle to keep their daughter.
Throughout the month it will feature drama, documentaries and a comedy panel gameshow all based around disability.
Disability hate crime
The Ugly Face of Disability Hate Crime will see presenter Adam Pearson exploring the issue of disability hate crime and why it is “under-reported, under-recorded and under the radar”. Another documentary looks at Ghana, the ‘world’s worst place to be disabled’, where disabled children can be ‘disposed of’ for money.
Throughout the month it will feature drama, documentaries and a comedy panel gameshow all based around disability.
The season also features a two-part mini-series which follows a group of young people for 10 days as they apply for the job of personal assistant for a young disabled person.
Mock gameshow
A one-off mock gameshow will ‘explore disability by disabling its celebrity contestants’. It aims to play with taboos and will flip between action on stage to a behind-the-scenes comedy drama backstage.
You can find out more about what’s on during the Defying the Label season by visiting the BBC website.
