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- Magic Hands is a brand new series for CBeebies that is breaking new ground by featuring poetry for children translated entirely into British Sign Language (BSL) and, at the same time, opening up the world of poetry to a younger audience.
- News-based magazine for the sign language community.
- A family of deaf gangsters in the 1950s use sign language rather than guns to carry out their activities.
- Deaf Canoeist Matthew Sykes is competing for a place in the mainstream Irish Olympic squad. Laurentia Tan is training for gold. Big ambitions, Olympic Dreams. Who will succeed?
- Lifestyle programme in which the Punk Chef helps Deaf people to eat healthier food. 63% of Deaf people are overweight, compared to 12% of hearing people, with Deaf people twice as likely to have heart disease. Presented by Scott Garthwaite.
- Documentary following the lives of two Deaf men and their families who are affected by Parkinson's. One in every 500 people will develop Parkinson's during their lives, which means the brain cells involved in movement start to die. There is no cure. Because of the effect on movement, Parkinson's can also affect communication in BSL users.
- Documentary about the evolution of British Sign Language (BSL). Presenter Ramon Woolfe takes us on a journey into the development of BSL, as seen through the eyes of of his relatives - Ramon is the eighth generation of his family to be born Deaf. We meet Ramon's grandmother, who refers to her sign language as 'ordinary sign language' while his mother shows how she uses BSL with less English influence. We find out about attempts to preserve regional signs through Ramon's father, and also meet leading figures in the Deaf community, the media and academia to find out about the history of the language, and what the future might hold.
- The first part of a documentary telling the story of 400 years of Deaf education in the UK, from early sign-language schools onwards. Starting with Thomas Braidwood's methods, which were part of what is described as the golden age for sign language education from 1792 to the 1860s, we find out how increasing tension in Europe about teaching methods led to the 1880 Milan conference, where a policy of oralism was adopted. But even after technology came in, and sign language was banned from the classroom, Deaf children continued to sign in the playground. Presented by Louise Harte.
- Factual series explaining all the mysteries of the world of science in BSL! In this episode, Professor Knowitall and his sidekicks Dr Spark and Dr Bright explain electromagnetics. How does a rollercoaster take off so fast, and stop so quickly? What happens if you place the north and south sides of a magnet against one another? Dr Bright is sent on a ride on a magnetic vehicle to find out how magnets caused by electricity - electromagnets - can have a use in our everyday lives. Aimed at children of Key Stage 3 level. Don't miss it!
- From New Broadcasting House, 30 years after he first presented himself, Clive Mason takes a look back over the history of Deaf TV.