Damon Rose

About

I am currently editor of a team of talented writers and producers in BBC News who create innovative written articles, video and TV about disabled people - often in long form. It has received many industry awards. We have a more personal and funny strand called Ouch which consists of a weekly long-running multi-award-winning podcast and a spinoff BBC Two TV show, Ouch Storytelling Live, filmed at the Edinburgh Fringe - now in its fourth year. Also brilliantly funny and revealing is 1800 Seconds on Autism which we make for BBC Sounds. You can hear me on both of those podcasts from time to time. I am that fella who presented BlindKiss too, in case you’re wondering. Recently I presented Pick Up Your Stretcher and Walk, a documentary about disability and Christianity for BBC’s World Service and Radio 4, as well as presenting pieces for BBC One's The One Show and Sunday Morning Live. I am executive producer on a couple of other non disability related radio programmes. I’m really keen to jump further into creative writing with TV or radio scripting or a novel. I have years of experience doing standup poetry, comedy projects and general irreverence with a distinct sometimes raucous edginess. I also want to: get into commissioning, help people reach their potential, do something with my vast knowledge of broadcasting history and I might even want to learn how to code (again). I’m constantly curious and want to meet people who can properly inspire me or who want to collaborate – please get in contact. I’m a bit of a geek. I’m utterly at home with pushing the barriers on disability and have been blind myself since I was a teenager. Bring me the next disabled hacker, I want to write about him or her. I’m more interested in, say, disabled business people above sports people or mountain climbers - to my mind they get too much coverage which I find a bit odd.