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Following the success of last year’s acclaimed Inside Our Autistic Minds, which recently won best Specialist Factual series at the Broadcast Awards, the BBC has commissioned a second series, exploring what it is really like to live inside dyslexic and ADHD minds.

Described as a ‘magical journey through the life, mind, and heart of iconic artist Frida Kahlo‘, the film is based on her illustrated diary. At 18 she was in an accident and broke her pelvic bone, spine, right leg and collarbone, and was left with chronic pain. While spending months in bed with a full body cast she started painting. The film is in selected cinemas from 8 March, and on Prime Video on 14 March.

Michael Sheen is grilled by 35 neurodivergent young people … and it’s pure TV joy! This interview format is a breath of fresh air: funny, endearing, novel – and the Welsh actor is charm personified. Expect tears, laughter and unexpected celebrity beatboxing The Assembly is available on BBC iPlayer.

In an interview with The Sunday Times, Rishi Sunak said he planned to pay for further cuts to national insurance contributions (NICs) in the next parliament by cutting working-age benefits. He again appeared to suggest that disabled people were partly responsible for the country’s economic problems, and that it was not “right” that so many disabled people had been found not fit for work and did not have to carry out any work-related activity.

The Kings Fund’s latest Social Care 360 report highlights that adult requests for social care have hit a record high of two million, and across the sector, the key measures all point towards a social care system that is under intense pressure.