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Transcript: CBC Radio’s As It Happens
Posted: March 18th, 2008, 2:20pm UTC by Jen Dodds
The issue has now reached Canada - CBC Radio interviewed Tomato Lichy for the As It Happens programme, which was broadcast last night. Listen here (for a limited time). Many thanks to Mary Therese Durr for transcribing it below: Title: A deaf couple in England wants a second deaf child but the government won’t hear of it. Introduction: Tomato Lichy and his partner, Paula Garfield, are trying for another baby, but trying for this baby has put them in an unusual fight. Both parents were born with congenital deafness. Their first child deaf is deaf and now they want their second child to be deaf as well. Which is a possibility, thanks to modern genetic testing and ... -
Deaf People & Genetics: Media Coverage, Part 2
Posted: March 17th, 2008, 2:17pm UTC by Alison Bryan
Following this post, here’s the second summary of coverage on this subject (from the past week): Radio: BBC Radio 5 Live: The Victoria Derbyshire Show, Transcript here, Discussion here and here BBC Radio 4: The Moral Maze, transcript and online discussion BBC World Service: Have Your Say, transcript, discussion, and transcript comment BBC Radio 4: Today, Lord Winston & Professor Jones, transcript Television: BBC Breakfast: Interview with Tomato Lichy and Paula Garfield BBC Breakfast: Interview with Jackie Ballard (link to follow) Scottish Television: The Five Thirty Show, Transcript here BBC News: Catholic pressure on ... -
Transcript: BBC Radio 5 Live’s The Victoria Derbyshire Show
Posted: March 14th, 2008, 7:51pm UTC by Jen Dodds
Broadcast on Wednesday at 9am, this programme featured interviews with Tomato Lichy and Paula Garfield, the RNID’s Jackie Ballard and David Blunkett, then a phone-in discussion, with quite a few phone calls from parents of deaf children and people who know Deaf people. Listen here. Discussions here and here. Big thanks to Claire from Team HaDo for transcribing it below! Victoria Derbyshire – Also this morning an important and for some very worrying debate – should IVF treatment screen out embryos that are likely to develop disabilities? One deaf couple doesn’t think so. They want to try for a child using IVF, but say that a proposed law would force doctors to screen out some embryos ... -
Transcript: Scottish Television’s The Five Thirty Show
Posted: March 14th, 2008, 7:30pm UTC by Jen Dodds
The British Deaf Association’s Richard Jones was interviewed on Scottish Televisions’ The Five Thirty Show on Wednesday. You can watch it here (link valid until Tuesday 18th March). Richard uses BSL but there are no subtitles - many thanks to Rachel Belk for transcribing it below: Male presenter (Stephen): Now, who would choose for their child to be anything less than perfect? Well, a Deaf couple in say they, at least, would like the option. New fertility legislation is set to make it illegal to use embryos with an abnormality like deafness during IVF treatment, but the couple argue that is discrimination. Female presenter (Debi): They believe they have the right to choose to have a ... -
Transcript: BBC Radio 4’s The Moral Maze
Posted: March 13th, 2008, 12:17pm UTC by Jen Dodds
Click here to read BBC Radio 4’s own transcript of yesterday’s broadcast of The Moral Maze, starring Dr Steve Emery. Great to see an internal transcript at last! Discussion here. ... -
Transcript: BBC World Service, Have Your Say
Posted: March 13th, 2008, 12:03am UTC by Alison Bryan
Tonight BBC World Service, Have Your Say’s broadcast touched on the subject of genetics and what this campaign has been about. It featured Dr. Anna Middleton. A full transcript is below, and a massive thank you to Sam Taylor for transcribing this. To the BBC: shame on yourselves, your a multi million £ organisation, where’s the access for the very people you are talking about? If you wish to participate in discussion, you may do so here. World Have Your Say, BBC World Service, 6pm. March 12th 2008 Ros & Shymar are the two presenters; everyone else is a guest. Ros Atkins: Do you see blind and deaf people as a minority in society and no more disabled ... -
BBC Breakfast, Interview with Tomato Lichy and Paula Garfield
Posted: March 12th, 2008, 7:46pm UTC by Alison Bryan
Here’s a BSL/English Interpreted version of this morning’s BBC Breakfast interview with Tomato Lichy and Paula Garfield: Hopefully the earlier interview with Jackie Ballard, CEO of RNID will be available online soon. ... -
Transcript: BBC Radio 4 Today, Lord Winston & Professor Jones
Posted: March 12th, 2008, 7:23pm UTC by Alison Bryan
Yesterday’s BBC Radio 4’s Today featured Lord Winston and Professor David Jones (note link will be inappropriate a week later, broadcast Tuesday 11 March 2008). Both discussed the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, with specific reference to wanting deaf babies. Below is a transcript, with thanks to Neil Corry (shame on the BBC for not providing access, again): John Humphries: As far as you’re concerned Lord Winston, your reaction to what that man said on this programme yesterday, accepting that there will be very few cases where this choice would have to be made. LW: I think there was a misunderstanding there, because I think that no government, and certainly not this one, is intending to enforce screening ... -
Deaf People & Genetics: Media Coverage
Posted: March 11th, 2008, 9:44pm UTC by Alison Bryan
Firstly, for those of you in the UK, tomorrow BBC Breakfast will air an interview with the RNID (7.10am) and also Tomato Lichy plus Paula Garfield (8.10am). Dr. Steve Emery will be appearing on BBC Radio 4, The Moral Maze (8.00-8.45pm). Irrespective of where you are located, you should be able to participate in debate online afterwards and we would actively encourage you to do so. We will try and make available media on this blog. Things have taken a faster pace in the UK, and within the last two days here’s media covering this issue (in response to Clause 14(4)(9), which this campaign is about). Radio: BBC Radio 4: Today BBC Radio 2: ... -
Transcript: BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vine Show, Deaf Babies
Posted: March 10th, 2008, 8:08pm UTC by Jen Dodds
BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vine Show aired a programme on as a follow up to BBC Radio 4 Today this morning (see this blog post). You can listen to this programme here, and a full transcript of the programme has kindly been provided by Claire, of Team Hado. Shame on the BBC for not providing immediate access! Transcript begins: Jeremy Vine (JV) - We’ll talk in a moment about deaf campaigners asking for the right to choose deaf children and why they say being deaf is not a disability….. JV - Should deaf parents be allowed to choose to have a deaf child over one that has all its senses intact? This is the controversial debate ... -
Transcript: The Right To be Deaf (BBC Radio Four)
Posted: March 10th, 2008, 12:05pm UTC by Jen Dodds
From today’s BBC Radio 4 Today programme (audio recording may not be available for readers accessing this page later on). Discussion here. [text on web page] The Right to be Deaf A new bill going through Parliament could mean embryos used in IVF treatment would have to be screened out if the child would be born deaf. [interview transcribed by Claire from Team HaDo] John Humphrys (JH) – You would think that if deaf people had children they would hope that their hearing would be normal. You might be wrong. There is an important, and to many people, deeply disturbing, debate at the moment over whether they should be able to choose, effectively whether their ...