“Real rights. Real choices.”
Ruth Madeley and Arthur Hughes star as Barbara Lisicki and Alan Holdsworth, two disabled cabaret performers who pushed the campaign for disabled rights into the spotlight.
#ThenBarbaraMetAlan , coming soon to iPlayer
Watching with the legend that is Barbara Lisicki 💙 #Thenbarbarametalan Amit Sharma Jack Thorne Genevieve Barr
Thrilled #ThenBarbaraMetAlan has been nominated for RTS Single Drama Award. Woo! 🙌🏻🎉🤞🏻Royal Television Society
#ThenBarbaraMetAlan was just a glimpse of the radical organising the Disabled people's movement has done to fight for the rights we have today. Access is better, but our fight to live independently isn't over - we won't sit quietly, NOTHING ABOUT US WITHOUT US! #PissOnPity
“We will change people’s perceptions of what disabled artists can do.”
Meet the team of disabled artists behind and in front of the camera on real-life drama Then Barbara Met Alan.
Watch #ThenBarbaraMetAlan on iPlayer
Been thinking a lot about #disability , access & ableism recently, & with every thought, I feel more & more proud of our film, #ThenBarbaraMetAlan .
Proud of how far we've come. Determined to go further.
'Then Barbara Met Alan', available now on BBC iPlayer
Forever proud of our 'Then Barbara Met Alan' family, nominated for Best Single Drama at last night's #RTSAwards
This film & the incredible team behind it will stay in my heart forever.
'Piss on Pity!'
#ThenBarbaraMetAlan #DisabilityRepresentation
“Real rights. Real choices.”
Ruth Madeley and Arthur Hughes star as Barbara Lisicki and Alan Holdsworth, two disabled cabaret performers who pushed the campaign for disabled rights into the spotlight.
Watch #ThenBarbaraMetAlan on iPlayer from 21 Mar at 9pm
“Whatever it took, we were gonna win!”
We’re looking forward to tuning in to @JackThorne’s new drama #ThenBarbaraMetAlan on @BBC2 at 9pm tonight! 📺
Will you be watching? 👀
In the latest episode of the The Sick and Sickening Podcast podcast . Out Friday 1st April
Myself and Josh Merritt #autistic #dyspraxic #ADHD #disabled discuss the iconic BBC iPlayer #thenbarbarametalan & what is was like to have a disability and be apart of something so important for #DisabilityRights #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
Brilliant #ThenBarbaraMetAlan . However we compromised on not getting the DDA and subsequent 2010 Act based on the Social Model. We will never get true equality until we win this battle! D.A.N. the disabled people's Direct Action Network
Congratulations to Indefinite's very own Director bruce goodison, Amit Sharma and the amazing team behind #ThenBarbaraMetAlan for winning the Broadcast Award for Best Single Drama.
'Vibrant, entertaining and important.' Fact-based storytelling at its best and most ground-breaking!
New #showreel update!
Now includes work from #ThenBarbaraMetAlan , which means you get to see the wonderful Ruth Madeley TWICE!
🤣🎬🤣 - might as well be your reel too Ruth!
Thanks to Chris Stone for the cut and Daniel Edwards Casting CDG for the opportunity!🔥🎬🔥
really enjoyed tonight's #ThenBarbaraMetAlan , a densely packed but efficiently told story about 90s disability activism that makes a nice change from television about the obscenely wealthy nationalworld.com/culture/televi…
Well...what a night...
WE ONLY WENT AND WON BEST SINGLE DRAMA Broadcast Awards !!!!
For the brilliant production, cast, supporting artists and technical teams who made #ThenBarbaraMetAlan an utter joy ❤️
Feeling so many emotions watching #ThenBarbaraMetAlan It’s beautiful, raw, and powerful. I feel so grateful for the rights I have today because of the brave and disruptive disabled people before my time fought for them.
Just in case you missed it last night here is Act On This - The TV Actors’ Network’s very own Ross Grant on the new #BBC2 drama #ThenBarbaraMetAlan opposite the wonderful Ruth Madeley!
Proof again that what he teaches WORKS!
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“Once you change the storyteller, you really start changing the story.” BBC Disability Ambassador Cerrie Burnell (Cerrie Burnell 🇺🇦) and #ThenBarbaraMetAlan stars Ruth Madeley (@ruth_madeley) and Arthur Hughes discuss disability representation on-screen. bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…