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For all the latest news from the 2018 TV Festival.
Wednesday the 22nd of August will see the UK's Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport will make his first speech about broadcasting at the Edinburgh International TV Festival in Edinburgh. Further details to follow.
BBC One controllers including CHARLOTTE MOORE, PIERS WENGER, ALISON KIRKHAM & KATE PHILLIPS.
AWARD-WINNING ACTRESS, SCREENWRITER, SINGER, SONGWRITER, POET & PLAYWRIGHT presents the 2018 MacTggart lecture. A must for anyone attending the TV festival.
How to describe the MacTaggart Lecture in 2018? Well it has taken just over 40 years since the Edinburgh Television Festival started. The centre piece lecture has seen James Murdoch, Jon Snow and a long list of other important men deliver the lecture to the good and great in the television industry. However the 2018 MacTaggart was different for several reasons.
Firstly a woman was delivering the lecture, this isn’t the first woman but it was the first time a black woman delivered the speech. To say it was ground breaking and a wakeup call wouldn’t be over stating it. In around an hour Hackney Londoner Michaela Coel told a story from her childhood in a inner London borough housing estate which rubs shoulders with the City bankers but are worlds apart. Micheala Coel may not be a UK household name but it will be only a matter of time before she is.