Jasmine Burkitt’s latest documentaries, Small Teen, Bigger World, starts on BBC Three on Monday 11th July from 9.00pm. The four-part series follows Jazz as she leaves home to start college to find her feet in the world and meet her Dad for the first time. In the meantime, here’s a sneak preview… (links to the …
Category: Arts / Culture
The Dwarves Are Coming
I subscribe to the wonderful BBC Ouch programme through my Facebook account to keep up to date about when the latest disability news when an article on their blog caught my eye. The season of the dwarf Turns out that there are few programmes that are going to aired in the coming months. Excited!?! Well, …
Warwick Davis – Size Matters Not Book Review
I’ve mentioned Warwick Davis a number of times on this blog with his interview on Able Radio and his interview in Disability Now and have been anxious to get hold of his autobiography Size Matters Not for some time now. Imagine how glad I was to find a copy of the hardback in my local …
Dwarf Culture?
Since watching BBC Question Time that inspired a previous post it got me wondering about the visibility of dwarfism/restricted growth in society. From my own personal perspective, there appears to be little understanding of the day to day lives that we lead, the problems we face and the experiences we have. Why does the term …
Mini me enters the Celebrity Big Brother House!
Unfortunately, I lost the early posts when my web hosts changed. Below is what I have been able to retrieve from web.archive.org. —- Well, it was a surprise to hear that Austin Powers actor – Verne Troyer has entered the Celebrity Big Brother 2009 house. On the one hand, I’m indignant – how dare the …