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A review by dunneniamh
Access All Areas: The Diversity Manifesto for TV and Beyond by Marcus Ryder, Lenny Henry
4.0
A must read if you want to work in television, feel passionately about increasing diversity in the media both in front of and behind the camera - or if you've ever watched television in your life.
Henry and Ryder make one point particularly clear throughout the book. The groups that we can view as 'in the minority' in the TV industry - people of colour, disabled people, women, LGBTQIA+ people, working class people etc are actually the majority. The numbers back it up! The problem is that the decades old institutions - particularly in the UK - aren't doing enough to open these hallowed halls to the majority, merely letting one or two trickle in at a time.
I really hope that this book, and the continued work that Sir Lenny Henry, Marcus Ryder and so many other people working in the media is highlighted further and we actually start to see good, actionable change. It made me feel positive about the industry I'm about to enter.
Highly recommend the audiobook - Lenny Henry reads it himself and there's plenty of jokes along the way (I definitely giggled out loud a few times).
Henry and Ryder make one point particularly clear throughout the book. The groups that we can view as 'in the minority' in the TV industry - people of colour, disabled people, women, LGBTQIA+ people, working class people etc are actually the majority. The numbers back it up! The problem is that the decades old institutions - particularly in the UK - aren't doing enough to open these hallowed halls to the majority, merely letting one or two trickle in at a time.
I really hope that this book, and the continued work that Sir Lenny Henry, Marcus Ryder and so many other people working in the media is highlighted further and we actually start to see good, actionable change. It made me feel positive about the industry I'm about to enter.
Highly recommend the audiobook - Lenny Henry reads it himself and there's plenty of jokes along the way (I definitely giggled out loud a few times).