1. The Silent Epidemic

The number of people who lack basic literacy skills is of epidemic proportions, but most able readers will never know that friends, colleagues or relatives can’t read properly. In this episode, we explore what ‘functional’ illiteracy means, the multi-faceted impacts on all aspects of their lives, and the costs to us as a society. And all this raises the question: how did we get to this place, when we fund education for every child to the age of at least 16?

 

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Inside the Reading Gap is a Thinking Reading and Made by DBM co-production

Written and created by James and Dianne Murphy

Narrator: Emilie Carrington

Editing, audio production, script supervision: Rob Birnie at Made by DBM https://madebydbm.com/podcasts

Additional interviews: Alice Ball and Emilie Carrington

Administrative assistance: Charlene Johnstone