SEE HEAR - Wednesday 6th May, 1pm ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ2
On this week's edition, we look back at the remarkable career of 86-year old Lord Jack Ashley of Stoke, the
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We also look at new research from Sandwell Medical Research Unit in the
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We also go behind the scenes of the new programme Wicked!, part of the BSL Zone on the Community Channel, and speak to the presenters and programme makers. We also hear from the BSL Broadcasting Trust about their future plans for Deaf programming.
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And - in our latest instalment of Stories Behind the Signs, Memnos looks at how developments in political correctness have affected some of the signs we use.
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To watch this programme on the iPlayer, click here. If you want to have subtitles, just press the 's' on the right-hand side of the bottom bar that appears after you have pressed play.
Comment number 1.
At 10th May 2009, MM wrote:Wicked could drop the Dr Buff thing, it seems pretty pointless. As far a signs go, where I am they are still used and not the new ones ! I think most 'new' signs are just sops to political correctness really, they do not seem to have realised the nature of sign language or how deaf use it. Context is the thing, under that ideal we can sign how we please. It is a pity they want to use PC signing to force deaf to comply with something completely unnecessary. Such is the annoyance with these new signs, it is extending to the young people who are using them, with heavy criticism especially from over 30s deaf, they cannot understand the new terps we see, using the new signing.... It seems to me no-one was really consulted as to if deaf NEEDED new signs to replace already established ones. New signs for NEW things, not old ones !
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