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You and Yours: The 'Greta Effect', TV Streaming, Mental Health Units

21/08/2019

The 'Greta Effect', TV Streaming, Mental Health Units

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, The 'Greta Effect', TV Streaming, Mental Health Units

The 'Greta Effect': how publishers are responding to Greta Thunberg's climate campaign.

Children's books become focussed on the environment as publishers react to Greta Thunberg's climate campaign. Plus are we ready to pay for more TV streaming services?

Mental Health units which look after young people with learning disabilities and mental health problems in England are coming under pressure to change the way they use restraint and segregation. You & Yours has been told that urgent inspections are to be carried out at some hospitals, after concerns over the safety of a number of young people who have been segregated. A further two units have already been put into "special measures". One mother tells the programme how her son who is now 20 has been cared for at five different hospitals since the age of 13.  

The number of books about climate change and the environment that are being published for children has doubled in the past year - according to market researchers Nielsen BookScan. Children's publishers are talking about a "Greta Effect", after the teenage campaigner Greta Thunberg. Dr Jess French, vet and author of "What A Waste: Rubbish, Recycling, and Protecting our Planet" and Kate Wilson from publishers Nosy Crow talk about how authors can best present these often scary ideas to children, and why the sudden interest now. 

Plus around half of UK homes now subscribe to a TV streaming service like Netflix, Amazon Prime or Now TV. And as if the choice of TV programmes is not big enough, the UK will soon get a number of new streaming services, including one from Apple and one from Disney. Winifred Robinson finds out what the appetite is for more streaming services, and why companies are so keen to join this market.  

Presented by Winifred Robinson
Produced by Natalie Donovan

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