BBC Three to highlight individuality across the UK
BBC Three launch Sorry Not Sorry season celebrating individuality across the UK.
“BBC Three explores issues affecting 16-34 year olds across the UK and helps give them a voice and understand their place in the world. Our Sorry Not Sorry season offers a platform to proudly celebrate individuality within the UK, sharing inspirational stories of self-identity and uniqueness.” – Damian Kavanagh, Controller, BBC Three
The season kicks off on Sunday June 18th across BBC Three’s iPlayer and YouTube channels with Murdered For Being Different, the flagship programme following on from the award winning Murdered By My Father and Murdered By My Boyfriend.
I’m Coming Out starts on Sunday, July 2nd and brings us a programme that looks how videos of teenagers coming out to their friends and family have become viral hits across the internet. Despite the common presumption that homosexuality is more widely accepted, many are still rejected by family and friends because of their sexuality. The two part series follows two teenagers as they film their experiences and the emotional roller coaster that surrounds revealing your sexuality to family and friends.
Then on the 4th July Eighteen-year-old Bradford-born Hiba Maroof faces a genuine moral dilemma in Should I Marry My Cousin?. As the title suggests the programme looks at whether she should she marry one of her cousins or go her own independent way? First-cousin marriage has gone on within Hiba’s family for generations. In this informative, authentic and deeply personal film, the BBC Three audience will get insight into one person’s complex dilemma as Hiba finds out if it is possible and even sensible for her to desire such a close relative. We will follow Hiba as far as Pakistan where there are eligible cousins as she finally makes her decision – could she marry one of the family?
Programming to air this month includes on June 18th, Murdered for Being Different. The centre piece of the season begins with this programme which looks back to 2007 and the brutal attack of 20 year old Sophie Lancaster, in a small town in Lancashire. Sophie was kicked to death in a park by a gang of kids she didn’t know. Her boyfriend Robert Maltby was severely beaten into a coma. The two of them were randomly attacked because they were dressed as Goths, but Rob survived.
Made in close collaboration with Rob, his family, Sophie’s mother and the police investigating team, this factual drama is the true story of a young relationship and of the violence and chaos that destroyed their lives, for simply being different.
On June 19th BBC Three meets Leo who is one of the first children in Britain to be prescribed hormone blockers to help him achieve what he feels is his natural gender identity of being a man. The programme Leo: Becoming A Trans Man, follows his difficult journey to finally be comfortable in his body and as he turns 16, Leo faces big changes and life changing decisions, including whether he will one day be able to have his own kids.
And in an emotionally charged one off, one hour film, BBC Three follows the stories of three young men who all came to Britain as children, grew up here and feel British. But after becoming adults, they discover the shocking news that British government no longer welcomes them in the UK. Don’t Deport Me I’m British airs on June 27th.
