Series 34

Supporting Content

• Horizon 1972-1973: The Curtain Of Silence

  • See Hear: Looking behind the Curtain of Silence
  • See Hear revisits the Curtain of Silence (2014)

  

• See Hear airs on the first Wednesday of every month at 8am

  

• Eva Fielding-Jackson — Episode 32

  

  Duration: 1:38

• Deaf children in mainstream education — Episode 31

  

  Duration: 1:19

• Deaf karting — Episode 30

  

  Duration: 2:02

• See Hear : Child of our time — Episode 29

  

  Duration: 1:36
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• Deaf Gain and Surdophobia — Episode 32

  

• Mainstream Education — Episode 31

  

• See Hear Motoring Special — Episode 30

  

• Deaf Child of our Time Special — Episode 29

  
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• Interview with Ofcom

  Ofcom is the body which oversees communications in the UK, including broadcast television. Since the 2003 Communications Act, they’ve required broadcasters to make a certain amount of their content accessible through subtitling, signing and audio description. They were also instrumental in the creation of the British Sign Language Broadcasting Trust (BSLBT) and currently have a new consultation relating to how the BSLBT is funded. This consultation closes at 5pm on the 22nd of September 2014.

  See Hear’s William Mager went to talk with Peter Bourton, Head of TV content policy at Ofcom, about subtitling, signing, deaf television and what the consultation is all about.

  Read the full consultation document on the Ofcom site.

• BBC Horizon - The Curtain of Silence (1973) now available on iPlayer with subtitles

  Earlier this year, See Hear revisited a controversial Horizon documentary from 40 years ago, The Curtain of Silence.
  
  Now for the first time ever, the Curtain of Silence can be viewed in full, with subtitles for deaf viewers as part of Horizon's 50th Anniversary Collection on iPlayer. Other fascinating programmes specially chosen to celebrate 50 years of Horizon are also available with subtitles.