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BBC's diverse history montage described

IMAGE ONE:
Una Marson (centre) introduced Uriel Porter, Gladys Taylor, Ike Hatch, and Lionel Trim, during a ´óÏó´«Ã½ broadcast to the Caribbean in 1941.

Una Marson (centre) introduced Uriel Porter, Gladys Taylor, Ike Hatch, and Lionel Trim.

IMAGE TWO:
The Wednesday Play: Fable, broadcast in 1965, was a play where those in authority were black, and white people their social underlings.

The Wednesday Play: Fable, broadcast in 1965, shows three black police around a white women in the centre of image.

IMAGE THREE:
Juliet Alexander and Vince Herbert presented Ebony and a range of other programmes for the Black British community from 1982-1990.

Mid shot portrait of Ebony presenters Juliet Alexander and Vince Herbert (l-r)

IMAGE FOUR:
Linda Mitchell was the ´óÏó´«Ã½â€™s first Head of Diversity from 2000-2003.

Mid-shot portrait of Linda Mitchell who is smiling

IMAGE FIVE:
Mahendra Kaul OBE was presenter of all the major ´óÏó´«Ã½ Asian TV programmes between 1968-1982.

Mahendra Kaul sitting at a desk covered in papers

IMAGE SIX: 
Having joined the ´óÏó´«Ã½ in 2007, Ryan Shiotani is now leading services, marketing, creative, content and affiliate ´óÏó´«Ã½ sales teams in Southeast Asia and India.

Ryan Shiotani smiling wearing a Madonna headset

IMAGE SEVEN: 
Noreen Khan is a regular ´óÏó´«Ã½ Asian Network presenter with Desi music, Bollywood news and entertainment.

Noreen Khan holding a mic at an open air festival

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From ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 5 Live reporter to main anchor of ´óÏó´«Ã½ News bulletins, Reeta Chakrabarti has covered nearly every major news event since 1994.

Reeta Chakrabarti pointing at a touchscreen during the EU Referendum results.

IMAGE NINE: 
International wheelchair basketball player and ´óÏó´«Ã½ TV presenter Ade Adepitan, has become a household on-screen name in the UK.

Paralympics Athens 2004 Ade Adepitan (right) celebrates with Jon Pollock after beating the USA during their Wheelchair Basketball

IMAGE 10:
Actress Liz Carr is a regular on Silent Witness. Living with Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita, Liz is a wheelchair user, and her important and central role in the series has improved visibility for disabled people on-screen.

Liz Carr holding a microscope and looking right of camera

IMAGE 11: 

 

Peter White first presented In Touch, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4's programme for the blind community in 1974, and since 1995 he has been the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Disability Affairs Correspondent.

Peter White in a radio studio, smiling to camera

IMAGE 12:
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson is one of the most successful Paralympians, winning medals at five Paralympic Games. She is now a ´óÏó´«Ã½ non-executive director.

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson at a photo call, smiling to camera and clasping her hands together

IMAGE 13: 
It is commonly thought the first gay kiss on ´óÏó´«Ã½ TV was seen in Eastenders. Not so. In fact it was in ´óÏó´«Ã½ Two's production of Edward II by Christopher Marlowe, 1970.

Two men embrace ahead first same sex kiss on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Two's production of Edward II by Christopher Marlowe, 1970

IMAGE 14:
´óÏó´«Ã½ TV hit the headlines in 1979 with a ground breaking fly-on- the-wall documentary, following Julia Grant as she transitioned.

Mid shot portrait of Julia Grant, smiling to camera

IMAGE 15: 
Never shy in being a publicly ‘out’ ´óÏó´«Ã½ TV news journalist, Jane Hill continues to front ´óÏó´«Ã½ events discussing the representation of the LGBTQi+ community in ´óÏó´«Ã½ output.

Jane Hill (centre) with two photographers taking snaps

IMAGE 16:
Johannes Radebe and Graziano di Prima performed together in Strictly Come Dancing. Despite their positive representation of gay life on the dance floor, the couple’s performance still produced a flurry of complaints to the ´óÏó´«Ã½.

Johannes Radebe and Graziano di Prima performed together in Strictly Come Dancing.

IMAGE 17: 
Depictions of older lesbian couples are still rare on ´óÏó´«Ã½ TV. The characters Bernie Wolfe and Serena Campbell broke the mould in Holby City in 2018.

Holby City characters Bernie Wolfe and Serena Campbell just about to kiss

IMAGE 18: 
Jean Sheridan, was an Irish Traveller evicted from Dale Farm, in Essex, once Europe's largest traveller site. The dramatic evictions took place in 2011. The incident was one of the few moments on ´óÏó´«Ã½ News when the Irish Traveller community’s voice was heard.

Mid shot portrait of Jean Sheridan looking into camera

IMAGE 19: 
Roma presenter and writer Damian Le Bas, was one of the first broadcasters to tell the Roma story from his own community’s perspective, with Betsy Mobey, David Donaldson, Jonathan Lee, Lisa Smith, and Johnson Welch, all members of the European Roma Rights Centre at the Appleby Horse Fair, June 2018.

Roma presenter and writer Damian Le Bas (right) at the Appleby Horse Fair, June 2018 looking at a woman and girl on a horse,

IMAGE 20: 
The famous 'class sketch' from 1960s satirical comedy series The Frost Report, which featured John Cleese, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett.

Left to right: John Cleese, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett in the class sketch

IMAGE 21: 
Johnny Speight was a working class writer responsible for the timeless classic ‘Till Death us do Part, amongst others. Born in Canning Town, London, his raw depiction of everyday life was full of comedy and controversy in equal measure.

Writer Johnny Speight right of photo at a desk on a typewriter

IMAGE 22: 
Wendy Richard as Pauline Fowler, Gretchen Franklin as Ethel Skinner and June Brown as Dot Cotton, in a very early Eastenders,1985.

Left to right: Wendy Richard as Pauline Fowler, Gretchen Franklin as Ethel Skinner and June Brown as Dot Cotton

IMAGE 23: 
Love across the class divide in the 2020’s. Paul Mescal plays Connell in Normal People.

Normal People character Connell has hands behind his head looking vexed during football match

IMAGE 24: 
Now a regular on ´óÏó´«Ã½ TV, Maxine Peake is still shocked at the lack of working class women on-screen. She struggled to name more than one other British working-class actress in a 2011 Radio Times interview.

Tight head and shoulders of Maxine Peake smiling on a street

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