‘Colouring wounds of the past’ is a radio documentary explaining self-harm and exploring the effects of tattooing over self-harm scars. The project aims to raise mental health awareness and answer the question ‘Can tattoos ease the emotional pain of self-harm?’ Click here to visit the official website of Colouring Wounds of the Past
MMP-Docs
Fan Media: Changing the voice of football
As social media has risen to prominence in football, so has fan media. What is fan media? Generally speaking independent, amateur content that reports, analyses or interviews a fanbase in relation to their club’s performance. For the fans, produced by fans. The rise has somewhat mirrored the growing commercialisation of Premier League football. In a […]
You Can’t Stop Me Loving Him – a radio documentary about conversion therapy in the UK
The UK has come very far with LGBT rights over the past 50 years with the decriminalisation of same-sex relations to the legalisation of same-sex marriage in 2014. There are still problems lying underneath the surface of LGBT rights in the UK which is conversion therapy. This documentary explores the dark and emotional use of conversion therapy in the […]
Sports star Leon McKenzie admits keeping battle with depression a secret
Ex-professional footballer and boxer Leon McKenzie has admitted football negatively affected his mental health during his 18-year career. The 40-year-old, now a mental health advocate, shared his past regrets on not seeking professional help, and his reasons for keeping his battle with depression secret. “I think if I had spoken to the right people, if […]
Combating Dementia
Throughout this audio documentary, I explore the future of dementia and aim to answer the question everyone’s been wondering, “How close are we as a society, to finding the cure for dementia?”. Within the 7 minutes, you’ll hear from 4 individuals who are living with dementia, work within the care sector or are working to […]
SEND IT! – YOUTUBE URBAN ADRENALINE
This TV documentary sets out to explore the lives of YouTube content creators within the Parkour and Urban Exploration community, assessing their relationship with society especially after tragedy. Calum Goddard-Mocklow immersed himself deep within the Parkour and Urban Exploration community, becoming extremely close with the UK’s biggest Parkour Group ‘Brewman’, interviewing members Jack Milnes and Aiden Knox. Brewman have over 20,000 YouTube subscribers and […]
Bumps, births and babies: the phobia
How does it make you feel to hear a baby cry? Concerned, broody? For tokophobics this noise can bring on a panic attack, uncontrollable shaking or a need to flee the scene. Tokophobia is a fear of pregnancy, childbirth and all that goes along with it. It is derived from the Greek ‘toko’ (childbirth) and […]
The Ethics of Sex Robots in a Digital World
According to UK Futurologist, Dr Ian Pearson, by the year 2050 it could be more common to have sex with robots as opposed to humans. Sex robots have made a large impact on the sex-tech industry. Just this year alone a brothel has opened in Paris charging customers up to £100 for 30 minutes with […]
Early Menopause | HRT – What’s the Reality?
There’s been a lot of controversy surrounding HRT since a 2002 report linked the treatment with a heightened risk of breast cancer. A lot of women are prescribed the treatment and are wary of it, some even coming off it completely. The BBC documentary, The Truth About The Menopause detailed concerns about the treatment and spoke to […]
The Tracks to Recovery
With 236 railway fatalities in the UK last year, what consideration, if any, is given to the unsuspecting and powerless train driver? How are their lives impacted after witnessing somebody take their own life and what support is available to assist them in their recovery? The Tracks to Recovery explores just this. To find out more about the project, visit […]