Jamie Oliver is back on his soap box – but the Government isn’t listening ...Middle East

This is a personal plight for Oliver. We watch him struggle with reading his lines for his cooking programme voiceovers and find out that he didn’t read his first book until he was 33. In one of his many speeches to the camera, the TV chef remembers how being taken out of class to be given special lessons made him feel like he was “stupid”, like he was “wearing a dunce hat”. He delivers these distressing memories with a forced breeziness that doesn’t quite manage to hide his residual pain.

Oliver sets out to make a real change to how children with dyslexia are treated in school (TV still: Jamie Oliver Productions/Channel 4)

Oliver visits a boxing gym, where dyslexic children struggling in school find an outlet where they don’t have to contend with reading and writing. Fifteen-year-old Amira reflects Oliver’s own school experience back at him, telling him that he feels isolated from everyone else in class. “When they do their best, you can see it,” he says, “but when I try to do my best it feels like I’m not doing anything at all.” Most upsetting is his outlook on the future: “I don’t see any hope.”

With Oliver’s point – that dyslexia is a problem worth tackling – proven, he sets about getting the attention of the Government. It’s here that Jamie’s Dyslexia Revolution becomes less urgent, as he cosies up to MPs in an effort to get his campaign under the nose of Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson. He wants her to increase spending and support for teachers, who are only taught how to teach children with learning differences for half a day in a three-year course. He also wants Phillipson to make screening for dyslexia mandatory for every primary school child, so no one else slips through the net of diagnosis.

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Jamie Oliver: At school I felt worthless - I didn't read a book till I was 35

With no concrete change made yet, perhaps Jamie’s Dyslexia Revolution is a little premature. But in sounding the alarm over the struggles that thousands of children are facing in school, Oliver has at least made a move in the right direction. My generation will remember Jamie Oliver as the man who took away their Turkey Twizzlers. Hopefully, a younger generation will remember him as the man who gave them back their education.

‘Jamie’s Dyslexia Revolution’ is streaming on Channel 4

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