02-08-2023, 12:00 PM
By coincidence after reading this thread, I went into the People's History Museum in Manchester yesterday and their disability exhibition has a bit about the Telethon protests and how it did actually help bring together quite a solid disability protest movement going forward. So at least something positive came out of all the anger! I didn't realise they also protested Children in Need in the early 90s too for the same reasons.
This Coronation St Telethon scene just came up on YouTube. The product placement at the end from Heineken is quite something, and a bit weird. I'm guessing that bit was live given how late she walks in and how they seem to cut them off. Maybe they were doing other bits in the Rovers with the actors throughout the show given that he calls her by her actual name Jean.
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This Coronation St Telethon scene just came up on YouTube. The product placement at the end from Heineken is quite something, and a bit weird. I'm guessing that bit was live given how late she walks in and how they seem to cut them off. Maybe they were doing other bits in the Rovers with the actors throughout the show given that he calls her by her actual name Jean.
youtu.be