Referencing the pressure on comedians to demonstrate balance, co-host Romesh Ranganathan said that balance would require describing the Bafta audience both as British TV’s luminaries as well as “shark-eyed narcissists”. The stars of British television paraded down the red carpet into the ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in the glorious sunshine as crowds in London’s South Bank craned for photos. “If I have a hope it’s that people entering the industry today, people from backgrounds like mine, minority communities, council estates, that they might find their journey through the industry a little easier.” In his acceptance speech, Olusoga said he had been inspired by David Attenborough. Prof David Olusoga was also given a Bafta special award for his history documentaries, which have examined black British history as well as the legacy of slavery and colonialism. Majumdar used his final speech as chair of Bafta before stepping down to urge the TV industry to continue building on the “seismic changes made over the past three years” in diversity and representation. I wouldn’t be standing here if it wasn’t for you,” he said. “You have paved the way for so many others – seeing is believing. Putting her glittering bindi on her face-shaped Bafta award, Syal, 61, recalled how growing up as a “chubby brown kid from Wolverhampton, I got othered a lot”, and how her father had studied philosophy and dreamed of being a singer and a poet, yet encountered the attitude: “Never mind bloody Plato, can you drive a bus or not?” on his arrival in the UK.īafta chair Krish Majumdar described Syal as a “national treasure”, whose role in Goodness Gracious Me – shown on BBC Two from 1998 to 2001 – had “changed the game”. They do because the untold stories are the ones that change us, and sometimes can change the world.” She dedicated her win “to all my fellow travellers, all the ones who’ve been made to feel because of their race, sex or class that their stories don’t matter.
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