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Countryfile (last night). Inclusive farming. about 3/4s through the prog, a young woman with ME is featured (using a motorised wheelchair). https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001fqgg/countryfile-inclusive-farming

There's a programme on Channel 4 tonight at 1930, described thus in the Radio Times: "Richard Butchins reports for Dispatches on a series of deaths, including suicide, by disabled benefits claimants, examining how failings by the Department of Work and Pensions may have contributed. He looks...

Hi. There's a programme tonight about Long Covid. Here are a couple of trailers: 1. 2. Here is the synopsis: https://www.bradfordhospitals.nhs.uk/2021/03/15/channel-4s-dispatches-to-profile-bradford-long-covid-clinic-the-first-in-yorkshire/ I know a colleague of the film-maker. I intend...

Steph McGovern is starting a new lunchtime show on channel 4 from her home. I believe she has been asking people to contact her. She was pretty good when she did the BBC breakfast interviews for Unrest. Came across as open minded. It could be worth people with ME who have blogs/involved in...

This was on last night. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fjrg The bit on Endemetriosis was towards the end of the programme. I hadn't really heard the BBC use 'medically unexplained symptoms' on any of their tv progs before. Of course they didn't go into how these 'MUS' are now being...

Emerge Australia CEO, Heidi Nicholl, and Sydney patient, Jade Barclay, appeared on the Today show on Channel 9 in Australia this morning. The segment runs for just over 10 mins. (Sorry, I can’t figure out how to embed the clip. Feel free to let me know if you do!)...

from the Ulster Herald: " A BRAVE Omagh boy who has ME hopes his upcoming appearance on Children in Need will help inspire young people to ‘live life to the fullest’. Even though Mark McAnulla is only 13-years-old, he has courageously battled the side-effects of his ‘myalgic encephalomyelitis’...

This article has just been posted to the ABC (Australia) website, ahead of a story on the current affairs show, 7.30, on the same network tonight. Based on the article, we are on tenter hooks about the story tonight...

http://ldifme.org/2018/05/18/whats-up-tv-wants-your-voice-for-me/

coverage last month of the NIH changes https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/what-doctors-want-you-to-know-about-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-397029955917 looked ok as a report until the end where Natalie Azar their "medical contributor" who is a rheumatologist said that treatments vary and...

Health journalist Josefin Lennen Merckx provides information about ME through four questions. Dette behøver du veta om ME google translation: This is what you need to know about ME 1. What is ME? 2. Why is it an unknown disease? 3. Why has it been controversial among health personell? 4. What...

Can you Rebuild my Brain? Interesting prog on C4 This was very interesting but also a bit scary! "Lotje Sodderland's brain was damaged by a stroke when she was 34. She meets neuroscience pioneers who are developing cutting-edge treatments for conditions like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and autism."...

Today there was a news section about ME on Swedish television. The Netflix-launch of Unrest was given much attention with scenes from the trailer. In studio were prof. Jonas Bergquist (ME-researcher and member of OMFs Scientific Advisory board) and Henrik, a carer over several years for his...

"Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has been brutally taken down by Ralf Small in 42 tweets – after he challenged the actor to a ‘double-dare’. Small accused Hunt of lying on Twitter about claims he masterminded the ‘largest expansion of mental health provision in Europe’ on the BBC’s Andrew Marr...