Michaela Coel's MacTaggart Memorial Lecture

The Edinburgh International Television Festival is best known for its keynote address: the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture. The lecture features speeches from leading media figures connected with British and international television over more than 40 years.

 

Somehow I’ve found myself standing before you all, in front of this podium, to give a ‘lecture’; ex-boyfriends have accused me of giving these; Universities have accused me of never attending them; but my relationship with this word has ...