Good interview with Sophie Morgan

[davidgillon]

 There's a really good interview in the Guardian today with Sophie Morgan, who's a reasonably prominent UK tv presenter, and wheelchair user.

Her two decades as a presenter and as a disabled person have pretty much gone hand in hand as she started in a couple of reality tv shows almost as soon as she was out of rehab from being spinally injured in a car crash, but it's depressingly revealing to see how much she's had to overcome behind the scenes to be taken seriously as a presenter of disability stuff, never mind non-disability.

It's also interesting to note that I read a lot of Guardian interviews, which have occurred in all kinds of venues - hotel suites, zoom, people's kitchens, the French countryside - but this is the first one I can remember where it's mentioned it was in the Guardian offices; it's own comment on accessibility?

The Trials and Triumphs of Sophie Morgan

 

Comments

[jadelennox]

Oh my god people steal parking placards??? And by definition you can't even hide it away, it has to be visible, what a nightmare.

(I remember getting in a fight with my dad because he'd leave it in the car when my sister wasn't there, not to park in a reserved spot, but because he believed (possibly accurately? I'm not sure) that with it in the car he wouldn't get ticketed if the parking metre ran over. And I was like, dad, if they take it away for abuse, she'll be stuck at home, just carry quarters like a normal person! To his credit it did eventually sink in and I believe he stopped eventually.)

(I know that placards aren't the point of the article but since the stolen blue badge was in the article kicker it's what I walked away with.)

[davidgillon]

There's actually a recommendation when you get one that you don't leave it in the car overnight.