Silenced: The Hidden Story of Disabled Britain review â have attitudes changed? Cerrie Burnell explored Britainâs treatment of disabled people over history, from the Victorian workhouses for the âfeeble-mindedâ to the activists and trailblazers of the modern day Cerrie Burnell with activists Jane Campbell and Alia Hassan in Silenced: The Hidden Story of Disabled Britain. Photograph: Tom Hayward/BBC/Blast! Films Cerrie Burnell with activists Jane Campbell and Alia Hassan in Silenced: The Hidden Story of Disabled Britain. Photograph: Tom Hayward/BBC/Blast! Films Tue 19 Jan 2021 17.00 EST Childrenâs TV presenters are often at the forefront of social change. Perhaps this is because â as one of the people interviewed in Silenced: The Hidden Story of Disabled Britain (BBC Two) remarked â âchildren are much better at inclusionâ than their angry-letter-writing, Ofcom-complaint-making parents.