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I've been trying for years to tell disabled stories on conventional drama budgets, and every time i've been able to tell a disabled story on tv, it's been with a reduced budget because that's the only way of doing it. and we need to be elevated and we need to be put into the mainstream, and the reason why, and this was i think the reason why this speech belonged this year, is that i think that what covid showed — beyond anything else is the ableism is rife in our country and the fact that disabled people were shut out of conversations and ignored in the statistics as to how many deaths were ...

In the statistics as to how many deaths were put into different columns, how many disabled deaths, those with underlying health conditions were sort of relegated out of main statistics, and if you look at care homes and disabled people in those homes there was a massive over proportion of disabled deaths — of the first 100,000 covid deaths, 61,000 were disabled. and then the third thing, and the, sort of, the thing that i'm particularly aiming at is that our spaces in which we make our work are inaccessible and that disabled people cannot make shows because there is frequently huge barriers ...