ESM x Jenna Preece: Our World

Imagine a world where everyone is included, where disabilities don’t hold people back, where we take the time to understand and make more room for those people battling physical or mental conditions every day.

Jenna Preece is an actor, presenter, and all-round force of nature. She became an actor because she didn’t see people with physical disabilities like her on television and wanted to do something about it.

Bursting with personality, humour, and a little sass, she’s a huge advocate of people identifying as disabled and was the perfect choice to lead this BBC Radio Wales programme, Jenna Preece: Our World.

With Jenna, we spoke to the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama about the adaptations they’d made and lessons they had learned while Jenna completed her Masters there. We met the people behind a theatre production company that embraces disabilities as part of the process of making a play, including sign language and audio description as part of the performance rather than added on at the end. Or not at all.

A paralympic sprinter talked to Jenna about life training under lockdown and we found out how people who have been caring for loved ones 24/7 with no respite because of Covid restrictions have been coping. Not one of them asked for more money, staff, a job, car or anything like that.

They all asked for the same thing. More patience and kindness in the world. We were very proud to produce this original radio documentary with Jenna, to provide a platform for her and other's like her to share their voice, and to hopefully provide food for thought in the audience's mind as they consider what little things we can all do to make the world a better place for everyone.