Georgia Coan

Dec 4, 2023 | inews.co.uk | Georgia Coan

Working-class audiences want the BBC to take more risks when producing new programmes, according to research from Ofcom. The findings from the UK’s media regulator, has shown that in recent years people in lower socioeconomic groups, which account for nearly a quarter of the UK population, are less satisfied with the BBC, with many of these audiences now turning to social media, podcasts and streaming for new authentic voices over BBC content.

Sep 6, 2023 | inmyowntimeline.substack.com | Georgia Coan

I wrote this blog post a few years back about how the video game ‘The Last of Us’ helped me cope with the loss of my brother. Since then, it’s been made into a TV series for HBO (the creator Craig Maizen actually read the original blog which I’m still not over), so I thought I’d re-share it in the hopes it might inspire you to find comfort during your grief in the art of videos games, books or TV shows.

Aug 30, 2023 | inmyowntimeline.substack.com | Georgia Coan

In the weeks and months after my brother Elliot passed away, I trawled through pages and pages of Google searches, desperately trying to find someone who’d shared their experience of sibling loss. As insomnia took me in it’s arms like an overbearing relative, keeping me alert to the uncertainty of the long, dark nights that come with grief, I would arrive at the doors of internet forums that had long been abandoned, trying desperately to relate to the stories I found there.

Aug 23, 2023 | inmyowntimeline.substack.com | Georgia Coan

Sometimes I worry that I’ve become the orchestrator of my own misery, that I’ve been conducting the same symphony of sadness for the last 10 years of my life because I don’t know any other piece of music. As I scroll mindlessly through my timelines on social media, watching the lives of other people I have known in the last ten years since my brother died, I can’t help but compare my life to theirs, to wonder what life in my 20s would have been like if my brother hadn’t died.

Feb 5, 2023 | bbc.co.uk | Hayley Mortimer |Georgia Coan