News about TV, radio and internet coverage of hearing voices
Page last updated 12/12/2008
News about TV and radio programmes on hearing voices from around the world
2008
7th November 2008: The Voices Within ... Special Hearing Voices 'All In The Mind' interview with Sandra Escher, Dirk Coerstens and Rufus May - broadcast on ABC across Australia. See here for comments that have been submitted to ABC's web-site:
21st April 2008 "The Doctor who Hears Voices" shown on UK TV . Over a million people watched the broadcast and thousands of people are now down loading from several Internet sites. It has provoked a strong response from viewers. Many people have been inspired by the film, others more attached to a medical approach to distress have been outraged, read Rufus Mays' reflections on making the film here
7th April 2008: Angels and Demons
broadcast on ABC in Australia.This well regarded documentary made by Andrew Denton as part of the "Enough Rope" series considers what it is like to hear voices. You can watch it here and read the programme transcript here
27 April 2008: Am I Normal?: Programme information, review and description
A growing number of mental health experts in Scotland agree that there is a need to scrap the term schizophrenia, since it has, they believe, become a stigmatised and scientifically redundant category. BBC 2, UK, TV programme
7th May 2008: "Thinking Allowed" a series presented by Laurie Taylor, broadcast Wednesday, 7 May, 4pm and repeated Sunday, 11 May 12.15 (night)
This week it covers the phenomenon of hearing voices ".. voices might not be as unusual as we think, and many people even live quite happily with the voices they hear. Dr Julie Kirby, senior Lecturer at Edge Hill University talks about her research study of over sixty people who live with voice hearing. "
You can listen to a stream of the programme here