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Episode 23

British Sign Language magazine series. A suitably seasonal celebration packed with Christmas cheer and featuring signed carols, Christmas songs and a few other yuletide gifts.

With the countdown to Christmas underway, this week's See Hear has a decidedly festive feel to it! There's the traditional See Hear signed Christmas music video, a Town Crier who has gone deaf due to his extremely noisy job, signed carols from Trafalgar Square and Memnos dons his Santa costume!

Santa visits school
Our presenter, Memnos makes a surprise visit to the children at Frank Barnes School for Deaf Children to find out what Christmas means to them

Music video
Every year See Hear challenges a well known deaf director to produce an exclusive signed Christmas music video. This year Samuel Dore has been entrusted with the important task. Watch the show to find out which well known festive song has been chosen. And If you've ever wondered how a signed music video is put together then this is your chance to find out. The See Hear cameras go behind the scenes to see the making of the video.

John Smith, deaf comedian
Deaf comedian, John Smith pops in to the studio for a chat. Known for entertaining in deaf clubs and theatres all over the country he performs his entire set in BSL. John shares his unique Christmas memories with Memnos and Radha and they find out what he'll be up to over the coming weeks.

Town crier
Christchurch's award winning town crier Keith Jackman has been ringing his bell for a quarter of a century often reaching a volume of over a hundred decibels and his hearing has suffered as a result. But it's not just noisy jobs like Keith that can cause you to go deaf. See Hear finds out about the RNID's new campaign called 'Don鈥檛 Lose the Music' which aims to educate music lovers about the damage that can be caused to your hearing from listening to loud music.

29 minutes

Last on

Fri 2 Jan 2009 01:25

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