After a decades-long battle, the chef read his first book aged 33. This striking and dismaying documentary sees him tackle the government to do better for kids today. The scene with Bridget Phillipson is really somethingAbout 15 years ago I was at a do for a children’s literacy charity and the guest speaker was Jamie Oliver. He got up and spoke easily, wittily and movingly – without notes – about his experiences as a child at school with undiagnosed dyslexia that meant he only read a book for the first time at the age of 33. Now he is channelling those experiences, with what he has learned over the last two decades as a campaigner (most famously about school dinners, when he brought to public attention the pennies’ worth of cheap slop we were pushing down our children’s gullets five times a week), into the cause of educational reform.Jamie’s Dyslexia Revolution marks the culmination of six months’ work by Oliver and his team, including his right-hand woman for activism, Alison Corfield, and the beginning of a media blitz designed to force the government’s hand. Continue reading...