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Is Me Before You offensive to disabled people?

Penny Pepper and Melanie Reid discuss new romance film Me Before You.

Last week there were protests by disability activists at the premiere of Me Before You, a film about the relationship between a paralysed man and his carer.

Penny Pepper, a disability activist who reviewed the film for the Guardian, and Melanie Reid, columnist for the Times who had a spinal jury and is paralysed, debate the controversies around the film.

(Image: Protestors at the European film premiere of Me Before You. Credit: PA.)

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