Entries

The Mental Health Media Awards 2007 was hosted by Trisha Goddard on World Mental Health Day, Wednesday 10th October, at Bafta in London. A list of the shortlisted entries and winners (marked with 'W') of each category are featured below.

Print:

Madness (South London Press) W
The Killer Inside Us (Men's Health)
Sentenced to death? (Society Guardian)

TV & Radio News:

Today: Alzheimers (Radio 4)
Newsnight: Child prisoners (BBC Two)
BBC Six O'clock News: Children and mental health (BBC One) W

TV Documentary:

Sunny Intervals and Showers: BBC Storyville (VBB Productions, BBC Four)
Help me help my child : OCD (IWC Media (London) Ltd, Channel 4)
Tourettes on the Job: Hidden Lives (Cicada Productions, five)
Rain In My Heart (BBC Two) W

Factual Radio:

Schizophrenia: Between Ourselves (BBC Birmingham, BBC Radio 4)
Madness: Am I Normal? (BBC Radio 4)
Desert Island Discs with Paul Abbott (BBC Radio 4) W
Combat Stress: Eye on Wales (BBC Radio Wales, BBC Wales)

Raising Public Awareness:

Rethinks’ Northern Ireland anti-discrimination Campaign
The Secret Life (including BBC Two's Stephen Fry's "The Secret Life of a Manic Drepessive" and "That's a bit mad - the real story of manic depression on BBC Radio Stoke") (BBC Two, BBC Radio Stoke, IWC Media)
Mental Health Week (BBC Radio Bristol)
Feed Your Head (BBC Radio 1, 1 Xtra, bbc.co.uk/radio) W

Single & Serial TV Drama:

Mysterious Creatures (Leopardrama Ltd for ITV 1) W
Recovery (Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC One)
Fear of Fanny (BBC Four)
Wide Sargasso Sea (BBC One/BBC Four Kudos/BBC Wales)

Soaps & Continual Drama:

Doctors: The Protector (BBC Birmingham, BBC One)
The Archers: Jack’s Alzheimers’ storyline (BBC Radio Drama, BBC Radio 4) W

Radio Drama:

Standing Sideways: Afternoon Play (BBC Radio Drama, BBC Radio 4)
Sunbathing in the Rain (BBC Radio 4, BBC Wales) W

Young People’s Media:

I'm a child anorexic (BBC Three)
Newsround Extra: The Wrong Trainers (BBC One) W
That Summer Day (CBBC)

The list is downloadable here as a pdf.

A gallery of photographs from the event is here

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The following pdf documents contain information relevant to entries to the Mental Health Media Awards 2007. Similar criteria and guidelines are likely to apply to 2008 Awards entries, but they are subject to change.