This is a repository copy of Erasing diversity: Mediating class, place, gender and race in The Moorside. White Rose Research Online URL for this paper: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/145269/ Version: Accepted Version Article: Forrest, D. and Johnson, B. (2020) Erasing diversity: Mediating class, place, gender and race in The Moorside. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 17 (1). pp. 91-111. ISSN 1743-4521 https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2020.0509 This is an Author’s Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Edinburgh University Press in Journal of British Cinema and Television. The Version of Record is available online at: http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/jbctv.2020.0509. Reuse Items deposited in White Rose Research Online are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved unless indicated otherwise. They may be downloaded and/or printed for private study, or other acts as permitted by national copyright laws. The publisher or other rights holders may allow further reproduction and re-use of the full text version. This is indicated by the licence information on the White Rose Research Online record for the item. Takedown If you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing
[email protected] including the URL of the record and the reason for the withdrawal request.
[email protected] https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ 1 Erasing Diversity: Mediating Class, Place, Gender and Race in The Moorside David Forrest (The University of Sheffield), Beth Johnson (The University of Leeds) Keywords: diversity; class; race; women; broken Britain; television Advertised by the BBC as a two-part factual drama ‘based on the kidnapping of Shannon Matthews’i, The Moorside (BBC One, 2017), written by Neil McKay and directed by Paul Whittington, aired in Britain on 7th and 14th February 2017 respectively.