The most recent upload is the video recording of the entire two and half hour live performance “The First To Go” as presented at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow in 2008. I have subtitled the whole show, a) for deaf and…
Nabil Shaban
Here is my YouTube channel – 2BenefitPeople which archives the hidden TV and Film Cultural History of Disabled People over the past three and half decades. As I said yesterday, the channel contains only those film and television that I…
Breaking Bad star RJ Mitte: End stigma around disability
From bbc.co.uk Actor RJ Mitte rose to fame at the age of 14 when he was cast as Walter White Jr in cult series Breaking Bad. He has cerebral palsy and was bullied when he was younger because of his…
Photographer with Down’s syndrome ‘sees the world differently’
From bbc.co.uk Photographer Oliver Hellowell has Down’s syndrome, which his mother says means he sees the world differently from most people. Oliver’s unique way of capturing the natural world has recently gained him a lot of fans. Just over a…
Can advertisers be persuaded to use more disabled models?
Published on bbc.co.uk on 4 August 2014 In a new advert for disability charity Scope, model Jack Eyers strips down to his underpants, revealing not only his torso but also his prosthetic leg. According to campaigning group Models of Diversity…
Opportunity for disabled actors with RJ Mitte
BBC Newsnight Published on Jan 14, 2015
Evan Davis discusses opportunities for disabled actors with Breaking Bad’s RJ Mitte and Hollywood Reporter writer Leslie Felperin.
Evan Davis discusses opportunities for disabled actors with Breaking Bad’s RJ Mitte and Hollywood Reporter writer Leslie Felperin.
I’m With Stupid
Fridays Ep. 101 “The Comedown”
Switched at Birth (2011–)
Series on ABC Family, featuring deaf character Daphne Vasquez.
The Fifth Gospel (1990)
In 1989, Nabil Shaban with his then girlfriend, Tina Leslie, went to Lourdes to make a television documentary about disability and Christianity, commissioned by the BBC. It was called “The Fifth Gospel”.
It was produced and directed by Nigel Evans, and written by Nigel Evans, Tina Leslie and Nabil Shaban.
The programme was screened in 1990 as part of BBC’s Everyman religious affairs slot.