Making the next ‘States of Fear’

Mary Raftery’s 1999 documentary changed people’s minds about institutional abuse. Fifteen years later, what can it teach today’s programme-makers?


What are your children learning about being gay?

It starts with ‘that’s so gay’ in the playground and can end with physical abuse – so will the new policies on homophobic bullying make schools safer places for LGBT students?





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