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BBC1 Songs of Praise episode

on Faith and Laughter, I speak to 

Rev Kate Bottley about joy in church (clip 2)

Full version BBC Iplayer now

BBC1 Sunday Morning Live. A quarter of new recruits don't turn up to work on their first day. I join presenters Sean Fletcher, Holly Hamilton and actor Adam Pearson. Full version BBC Iplayer Series 15. Episode 11

BBC News24 with broadcaster Jane Hill, Dr John Simmonds (CoramBAAF) and myself. We discuss the Sikh couple who got turned down by a UK adoption agency and the complexity of overseas adoption

Reforming the Adoption System in the UK interview with Nina Nannar for ITN.

SKY News interview about Madonna and cherry picking celebrities adoption children

SKY News. Are we a National of moaners? I join broadcaster Julie Etchingham to discuss

Newsnight with Mary Nightgale. I join the panel to discuss racism in the UK and the Shipla Shetty incident with Jade Goody

Channel 4 interview with Jon Snow about the changes in the adoption laws in February 2011 surrounding colour matching and race

SKY News Tommy cooper statue, The Comedy Store show and Jon Snow broadcast from 2015

‘I thought you were really good!”
Mike Braithwaite, BBC1 Sunday Morning Live producer

*Full bio of work PDF coming soon

Quote's about Joy

‘Her comic style certainly makes her one to watch out for’

Daily Mail

 

‘Spontaneous, eccentric and a true individual’

BBC Home Counties

 

‘warmed and wowed me’

Arthur Smith Comedian/writer 

The Stage

 

‘So Brilliant’

Jo Brand. Comedian

 

‘Joy mines a rich seam of gold in her hilarious stand up material. She is sharp as a pin but she is fluid too’

Lemn Sissay. Broadcaster/poet

 

‘Her warmth, passion and incredibly high energy levels captured the audience’s imagination’

Dr Sharon Lockyer, Director at Centre for Comedy Studies Research, Brunel University

 

‘From the second it started we were hooked! We would highly recommend it (Spot the Difference'

Helen Stead, NCF Comedy Festivals

 

‘An outstanding public speaker who was able to bring a unique combination of warmth, wisdom, personal experience and edgy observational humour to the complex subject of transracial adoption'

Joan Fletcher Head of Social Work, Department of Social, Therapeutic and Community Studies, Goldsmiths University

 

‘Amazingly funny and talented performer, Joy is also an insightful, compassionate and an inspirational woman – the young people, the children, in fact the whole audience just loved her”

Diane Carrington, Team manager, Virtual School for Looked After Children & Careleavers. City of Westminster

 

Funny, intriguing, entertaining, respectful, you took the audience on a fluid journey of comedy that made them believe the story was theirs as much as yours’

Philippe Granger, CEO Rushey Green Time bank

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