When inclusion fails: Unpicking the BBC’s response to John Davidson’s on-air Tourette’s

Risk assessment should have flagged that ill-placed microphone would pick up any involuntary, offensive tics at the BAFTAS

BBC Broadcasting House headquarters of the British Broadcasting Corporation in Portland Place
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If you have ever known someone with Tourette Syndrome whose tics include involuntary, audible swear words – or indeed you have watched “I Swear”, the biographic film of Tourette activist John David