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Date: 21 January 2006 22:31:58
Had a chat with a man from the BBC yesterday. (Who sounded exactly like Tom Archer, which made me giggle as I was expecting a reference to Gourmet Grills at any moment.)
It's a five part series, to be shown on BBC1 in the daytime, about different aspects of disability. So the first programme is about babies and young children, and then later ones will be about education, independent living and similar issues. So they might want us for the first one.
It's an observational thing, which would mean a crew of two just being there while we do our normal stuff - probably coming to a hospital appointment, that sort of thing.
We need to make a decision about whether we want to be involved, then he can take it to the people in charge to see if they want us. He did say that the other people they'd spoken to had much younger babies and he thought that might be more what they wanted.
So we need to decide. We've had discussions before about how much we tell people about some aspects of baby b's care, and to suddenly decide we're happy for it all to go on the telly kind of seems a bit odd. Not that there's anything that drastic, but it's not just our privacy we're dispensing with - I'd hate it if in a few years time baby b was unhappy that we'd decided to do it, and that he'd had no say even though it was really all about him.
On the other hand people do have remarkably short memories, and it's not as if it's going to be seen by millions and millions anyway. This is daytime tv we're talking about.
Actually even if we decide to say yes to them I strongly suspect we'll get a phone call saying (very nicely and not in so many words) "thank, but your son isn't really disabled enough for our needs.".
Which is Fine By Me.