Subtitlers need to up their game
I’ll say it again. Subtitlers of mainstream television really need to up their game. The delays, the out-of-sync subtitles, the …
Category Archives: Coping Strategies
The Magna Carta Peregrinations Continue
In this 800th anniversary year of Magna Carta, I have just been to a couple more of the the associated …
Access to History – The World of Magna Carta
Yesterday I visited the David P J Ross Magna Carta vault at Lincoln Castle – the new vault intended to …
Subtitling Music
I’ve started with a contradiction in terms – and no, this post isn’t about subtitling song lyrics – that would be …
Kurt Jackson: River at the Horniman Museum, Christmas 2014
Kurt Jackson’s work captures a sense of place and of the essence of individual rivers: from the Thames, river of …
British Folk Art Exhibition: Tate Britain
Lack of an integrated approach I visited the British Folk Art exhibition at Tate Britain yesterday and, like the curate’s …
Good Vibrations
Hearing through your feet . . . We deaf people become attuned to vibrations: sound filters into our universe through …
Lost in translation
I’ve just spent a few rather lovely days in Caen, which I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend as a place to …
Boundaries
Twice recently I’ve come across sign language interpreters who have very seriously crossed professional boundaries as far as I’m concerned. I …
Extreme lipreading
At a recent ‘do’ I found myself slightly flummoxed. Lifelong lipreader as I am, I’ve come across a few conversational …
