Session Focus: Interesting ways of representing minority groups on public broadcasting As public broadcasters one of our missions is to build understanding and empathy between people who live very different lives. In this session we are introduced to three worlds we know little about. Each programme takes a distinctive approach. In our first programme, it’s by immersing us in the sensory experience of the deaf. In the second we are shown an unfamiliar world through the eyes of a comedian. Finally we take a journey with a second generation immigrant who becomes a huge success story, but still doesn’t fit in. Can anyone truly understand another person’s experience? Is it really possible to build a bridge from one world to another?
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