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“TV Has Failed Disabled People, Utterly And Totally”, Says Jack Thorne In Impassioned MacTaggart Lecture — Edinburgh

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Acclaimed screenwriter Jack Thorne has slammed the industry for its treatment of disabled people both on and off screen, saying, “TV has failed disabled people.

Utterly and totally.”Thorne used his invitation to give the prestigious MacTaggart Lecture at this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival to announce the creation of a new pressure group named Underlying Health Condition, which will push to make TV’s working environments more easily accessible to all and create a cross-industry fund to pay for it.During his speech, prolific scribe Thorne, known for series such as His Dark Materials and This Is England, and movies such as Wonder and Enola Holmes, revealed a disturbing story about a disabled friend working on a project based in an old factory,

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