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SUMMARY:“Sex education is always trouble” The representation of sex educa
 tion and HIV-positivity on the BBC’s Grange Hill
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DESCRIPTION:This seminar is part of the lunchtime seminar series for the 
 Centre for the History of Science\, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM). Lun
 chtime seminars are typically no more than 30 minutes in length\, follow
 ed by a period for audience questions (ending before 2pm). All are welco
 me.\n\n“Sex education is always trouble” The representation of sex educa
 tion and HIV-positivity on the BBC’s Grange Hill\n\nHannah Elizabeth (Un
 iversity of Manchester)\n\nAbstract:\nIn 1990 the BBC broke new ground w
 hen EastEnder’s character Mark Fowler returned to the show much changed 
 by his HIV-positivity. The storyline fostered intense media interest and
  research indicates that both HIV-awareness and HIV-antibody testing-rat
 es increased as the storyline aired. 5 years after Mark’s storyline bega
 n\, another BBC series picked HIV as a plotline: the long-running childr
 en’s drama Grange Hill.\n\nThe 1995 Grange Hill’s HIV storyline followed
  the impact of the death of Lucy Mitchell’s mother from AIDS-related com
 plications. This representation of HIV-positivity served as more than me
 re dramatic effect\; over the course of 5 key episodes\, Grange Hill pre
 sented its audience with some of the factual and emotional realities of 
 HIV/AIDS’ impact on family and friends\, deliberately situating the dise
 ase within a salient familial context. Throughout the same episodes\, se
 x education lessons are also represented\, with their potential to cause
  controversy used to provide a further source of drama. The resulting ep
 isodes provide the historian with unique texts\, not only are they rare 
 examples of AIDS edutainment aimed at young adults\, but as this paper w
 ill argue\, they also represent a critique of government sex education p
 olicy.\n\nThis paper will explore and contextualise how HIV-positivity a
 nd sex education were represented in Grange Hill\, revealing the didacti
 c and political elements of the text\, whilst demonstrating how the BBC 
 deployed differing ideas of childhood and the child as vulnerable or age
 ntic to create compelling drama\, empower its teenage audience and criti
 que government policy.\n
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LOCATION:2.57\, Simon Building\, Manchester
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