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English transcript: Rebecca: Good morning! Thank you for joining us here at The Limping Chicken. Matt: Good morning! Thank you. Rebecca: Today I’m chatting to Matt Kirby. So today, Matt can you int… ...
To read the updated version of this article, with new illustrations and BSL translation, click here. Hearing people, eh? You can’t live with them, you can’t live without them. Of course, the term ...
I went to a great conference today. It was riveting and I was hooked on pretty much every word. And then I got home and collapsed on the sofa. I’m not just tired, I’m shattered. I’ve had to turn my ...
For many UK-based Deaf viewers of the Nelson Mandela service today, something didn’t seem quite right about the sign language interpreter (scroll down for video) who stood to the side of the … ...
Hearing people. Want to make friends with a deaf person? Then wise up and don’t say any of these sentences. Us Deafies will never forgive you… “Wow – I would never have gues… ...
The UK Government is being taken to court tomorrow, in a landmark legal case with the potential to strengthen the rights of Deaf British Sign Language (BSL) users. The judicial review hearing over ...
Please scroll down for BSL videos and details of a BSL chat via Zoom on working remotely. New to communicating remotely? Want to know more? I asked deaf friends, interpreters, and speech to text ...
Films about Deaf people really need to stop presenting music as the antithesis to the Deaf community. Hot off the heels of Amazon Prime’s drummer-gone-deaf drama Sound of Metal, Apple TV+ unveiled its ...
Song in Sign is a creative musical project led by FormidAbility with workshops crafted by deaf musician Ruth Montgomery and delivered in collaboration with FormidAbility’s Joanne Roughton-Arnold. The ...
Before this dance project, I had met Chris Fonseca twice in Newcastle. The first was on my birthday a few years ago, and in typical Deaf culture, we had a long chat. After I explained that I had ...
The brand-new BBC revenge thriller Reunion, written by William Mager, is now available in full on BBC iPlayer. The first episode is a beautifully written, acted and directed piece of drama, ...
In February 2012, BBC3 broadcast a documentary about five deaf teenagers. In one scene, a university notetaker told a deaf student that she couldn’t take notes for the whole lecture because “my ...