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About me Charlie Swinbourne I’m a freelance journalist and scriptwriter – often (but not always!) writing about the world I know: I’m partially deaf and grew up in a deaf family. As a journalist, I’ve written over 25 articles for the Guardian, including a … Continue reading → Tue, May 07 2013 About me Charlie Swinbourne I’m a freelance journalist and scriptwriter – often (but not always!) writing about the world I know: I’m partially deaf and grew up in a deaf family. As a journalist, I’ve written over 20 articles for the Guardian, including a … Continue reading → Fri, Oct 19 2012 About me Charlie Swinbourne I'm a freelance journalist and scriptwriter – often (but not always!) writing about the world I know: I'm partially deaf and grew up in a deaf family. As a journalist, I've written for the Guardian, with a piece for G2 ... Continue reading → Wed, Mar 14 2012 Check out The Limping Chicken – offering news, features... Charlie Swinbourne Hi all, I've set up a new website called The Limping Chicken, offering news, features and opinion on deaf news, issues and culture in the UK. This means that a fair bit of my writing will migrate to the new ... Continue reading → Fri, Feb 17 2012 Photos from Graeae’s rehearsals for ‘Reasons To Be... Charlie Swinbourne Last week I was lucky enough to spend the afternoon watching the cast of Reasons To Be Cheerful reunite for a new tour. Their rehearsals made quite an impression on me, as you might be able to tell from reading ... Continue reading → Tue, Feb 14 2012 Deaf production company searches for actors – could YOU... Charlie Swinbourne Deaf production company VS1 are searching for deaf and hearing actors to play a number of roles in their new drama, Life's Out There, which will be funded by the BSLBT and shown on the Community Channel in Autumn 2012. ... Continue reading → Mon, Feb 13 2012 Interview with deaf actor, playwright and stand-up comedian... Charlie Swinbourne Sophie Woolley is an actor, playwright, and a stand-up comic. She starred in Channel 4′s drama series Cast Offs, has written numerous plays for theatre and Radio 4, and recently performed in her own online series, Deaf Faker. She has ... Continue reading → Fri, Feb 10 2012 Why we all owe the ‘Chickengate’ notetaker an apology.... Charlie Swinbourne Ok, ok. So we've had our fun. In going viral, ‘Chickengate' has expanded from a mere few seconds on BBC3′s Deaf Teens: Hearing World to inspire numerous gags on Twitter, hundreds of Facebook comments, and now, amazingly, a handful of ... Continue reading → Fri, Feb 10 2012 The notetakers limping chicken from Deaf Teens: Hearing... Charlie Swinbourne Wow, what's happened to the online deaf world in the last 24 hours? There's only one word on everyone's lips and hands: ‘chicken.' Actually there's two: ‘ill chicken.' Who knew that one dodgy excuse from a notetaker in BBC3′s ‘Deaf ... Continue reading → Tue, Feb 07 2012 Interview with Claire Braden, director of BBC3s Deaf... Charlie Swinbourne First published in the February 2012 edition of the Hearing Times. Claire (pictured right, with Meghan after her cochlear implant operation) has worked in TV for eight years, starting off in wildlife documentaries before moving into filming people instead. After ... Continue reading → Mon, Feb 06 2012 Hearing people its time to give subtitles a chance Charlie Swinbourne Last week, the Mail Online ran a story called SPEAK UP! Or why mumbling actors are ruining TV drama, in which Leo McKinstry described sitting down to watch the BBC's expensive production of Birdsong, only to find he couldn't understand ... Continue reading → Wed, Feb 01 2012 Families with deaf children need support to sign with their... Charlie Swinbourne Please read my Guardian article about families with deaf children and the support they need in order to sign. Just click here. Mon, Jan 16 2012 This new year, why not set up your own subtitled cinema... Charlie Swinbourne First published in the January 2012 edition of The Hearing Times. Three years ago, I became a father for the first time and with feeding times and the general chaos of life-change, I suddenly found it harder than ever to ... Continue reading → Wed, Jan 11 2012 Interview with That Deaf Guy cartoonist Matt Daigle Charlie Swinbourne First published in the January 2012 edition of The Hearing Times. Matt Daigle is a deaf cartoonist, designer and illustrator who lives in California. He and his wife produce a hilarious comic strip called That Deaf Guy, about a deaf ... Continue reading → Thu, Jan 05 2012 Uncovered: deaf prisoners treatment at the hands of the US... Charlie Swinbourne “Imagine serving decades in prison for a crime your sibling framed you for. Now imagine doing it while profoundly deaf.” An incredible article by investigative journalist James Ridgeway for America's Mother Jones magazine uncovers the story of Felix Garcia, a ... Continue reading → Tue, Dec 20 2011 Deaf people are body language experts. So what jobs could... Charlie Swinbourne A study has shown what signing deaf people have long suspected – that we pick up faster on body language. And it gets better – researchers at the University of California say that because we're so canny at picking up ... Continue reading → Mon, Dec 19 2011 How deaf viewers were let down by decision to use live... Charlie Swinbourne Last night, my wife and I sat down ready to watch the final of BBC1′s Young Apprentice. Admittedly, the show's a bit of a guilty pleasure for us, but after eight episodes and ten firings, we found ourselves rooting for ... Continue reading → Tue, Dec 13 2011 How live subtitles ruined tonights Young Apprentice final... Charlie Swinbourne My wife and I watched the whole series of Young Apprentice. Being deaf we rely on the subtitles, so we were more than a bit gutted when tonight's subtitles ran with a massive delay... ruining our enjoyment of the programme. ... Continue reading → Mon, Dec 12 2011 Coming Out is nearly five years old! Charlie Swinbourne Five years ago, director Louis Neethling made my first script a reality. It's a short comedy called Coming Out and it went on to win awards at domestic and international film festivals, as well as clocking up over 200,000 views ... Continue reading → Thu, Dec 01 2011 An authentic look inside a deaf club by deaf filmmaker... Charlie Swinbourne Deaf filmmaker Simon Herdman sent me this fantastic short documentary earlier tonight, filmed at Newcastle's deaf club. At a time when deaf clubs are increasingly threatened (Middlesbrough's deaf club is the latest to be faced with local cuts) this is ... Continue reading → Thu, Nov 24 2011 Dont Taser us were deaf Charlie Swinbourne A story has broken today about an elderly deaf man in America who died after a police officer (it is alleged) presumed he was ignoring him, and Tasered him while he was riding his bicycle. It's in the Mail Online ... Continue reading → Thu, Nov 24 2011 If youve never seen a comedy mini-series mix sign language... Charlie Swinbourne Two things that happened in quick succession this week made me write this post. First, director William Mager won a prestigious AMI award on Sunday night (meeting the legendary Mike Leigh shortly afterwards), and second, our comedy The Fingerspellers (which ... Continue reading → Tue, Nov 22 2011 Deaf school opens on Gaza Strip Charlie Swinbourne In the UK, we're accustomed to reading stories about deaf schools closing (there are now only a handful left in Britain), but from Gaza comes the heartwarming story of the first Secondary School for deaf children being opened on the ... Continue reading → Sun, Nov 20 2011 The most cynical advert featuring deafness ever. Charlie Swinbourne An advert for Thai Life Insurance called ‘Silence of Love' featuring a deaf Dad has become a hit on YouTube with well over a million views. This article on The Huffington Post described it as being “poignant,” but on first ... Continue reading → Mon, Nov 14 2011 Telecommunications companies told to take action on video... Charlie Swinbourne Communications minister Ed Vaisey has told telecommunications companies to take action on video relay services for deaf people, or be faced with government action – full story here on the VRS Today website: [link] Fri, Nov 11 2011 Sign language version of White Stripes song goes viral Charlie Swinbourne It's Friday, so to sign off the week, check out this video from America's D-PAN (Deaf Performing Arts Network) of American deaf children signing The White Stripes song ‘We're going to be friends.' The video's gone viral, with over 300,000 ... Continue reading → Fri, Nov 11 2011 Thoughts on the BDAs new logos which one will you choose? Charlie Swinbourne It seems like re-branding is in vogue for deaf organisations. Heck, the RNID (Royal National Institute for the Deaf) not only came up with a new logo for themselves earlier this year, but also a new name – Action On ... Continue reading → Thu, Nov 10 2011 Deaf Guru starts work in London mobile phone shop! Charlie Swinbourne The words ‘Deaf Guru,' make me think of some of the legends of the deaf world, people who had the ability to bring the world to life in their signing hands. People like Jerry Hanifin (who once signed the entire ... Continue reading → Wed, Nov 09 2011 An honourable mention for Departure Lounge! Charlie Swinbourne Today I'm pretty chuffed because my half hour drama Departure Lounge has been awarded an honourable mention at Picture This International Film Festival in Calgary, Canada. Director Louis Neethling is flying out for their 2012 festival which is great news. ... Continue reading → Tue, Nov 08 2011 Guardian blog: Deaf people need more than half an hour to... Charlie Swinbourne Click here to read my Guardian Society blog about why deaf people using the video relay services proposed by Ofcom need a bigger quota than just half an hour to use the phone each month. Tue, Nov 01 2011 London Subtitled Cinema Group Charlie Swinbourne I've been running a subtitled cinema group for deaf and hard of hearing people in the capital since December 2009, aimed at watching art-house films that are rarely made accessible in multiplexes. We aim to see a film once a ... Continue reading → Tue, Nov 01 2011 Video tutorials add subtitles to attract deaf subscribers Charlie Swinbourne I recently had an email from Don McAllister who runs an online video podcast calledScreenCastsOnline. Don makes weekly video tutorials, and he's just started adding subtitles to them. It's pretty rare to hear about online videos having subtitles added to ... Continue reading → Mon, Oct 31 2011 Interview with Phil Clapp, Chief Executive of the Cinema... Charlie Swinbourne First published in the November 2011 issue of The Hearing Times. In May, I wrote a comment article for the Guardian's Comment is Free site, arguing that deaf people are being let down by the UK cinema industry. The article ... Continue reading → Fri, Oct 28 2011 Review Sencity London Charlie Swinbourne First published in the November 2011 issue of The Hearing Times. Sencity started in Holland before migrating to South America, Africa and Australia. Finally, on a Saturday night in October it was Londons turn: the multi-sensory disco night arrived at ... Continue reading → Fri, Oct 28 2011 Attacking the BBC on live subtitles doesnt do deaf people... Charlie Swinbourne Live subtitling errors on TV are something deaf people have had to grow very used to. Subtitling mistakes turn live news or sports programmes into a frustrating guessing game, but if there is an upside, it's that every now and ... Continue reading → Tue, Oct 18 2011 Something borrowed Charlie Swinbourne In the last week or so, articles in first the Telegraph and then The Mail about live subtitling had a lot of fun featuring funny subtitling errors like the Archbishop of Canterbury being called the arch bitch of Canterbury and ... Continue reading → Tue, Oct 18 2011 Another un-deafaware Australian Charlie Swinbourne An Aussie courier delivered a parcel to my house this morning, and in the course of small talk, noticed my hearing aids. I'm ok with that. I mentioned I come from a deaf family, and used lipreading and sign language ... Continue reading → Fri, Oct 14 2011 Deafness should not be spoken of as a scourge Charlie Swinbourne An article from Australia's Sydney Morning Herald has blazed its way through Facebook and Twitter this morning, about Dimity Dornan, an Australian woman who, after winning an award for her business (which is said to help deaf children ‘hear' through ... Continue reading → Wed, Oct 12 2011 Sign film for Radio 4?s Dragonfly what do you think? Charlie Swinbourne I really enjoyed the Radio 4 play ‘Dragonfly' this week, with great writing from Katie Hims and fantastic vocal performances from deaf actors David Bower and Sophie Woolley. The story is about a deaf man who's coming to terms with ... Continue reading → Fri, Oct 07 2011 A letter to Liz Jones Charlie Swinbourne Journalist Liz Jones hasn't exactly covered herself in glory recently, or, thinking about it, at any time in the last few years. After making her name with a weekly column that covered her failing marriage in cringeworthy detail, she moved ... Continue reading → Thu, Oct 06 2011 Comment: Deaf people are only just starting to see where... Charlie Swinbourne First published in the October 2011 issue of The Hearing Times. You have to feel sorry for deaf people in Bristol. In early September, Bristol city council withdrew 240,000 of funding for Bristol Deaf Centre, putting it at severe risk ... Continue reading → Thu, Sep 29 2011 Deaf mother campaigns for tougher sentences for dangerous... Charlie Swinbourne First published in the October 2011 issue of The Hearing Times. A deaf woman whose daughter suffered life-changing injuries after being hit by a dangerous driver is campaigning for tougher sentences for people found guilty of the offence. Christine Harper ... Continue reading → Thu, Sep 29 2011 How local cuts have left Bristol Charlie Swinbourne My latest Guardian comment piece is about how cuts in Bristol, to the local deaf centre, university deaf studies department and potentially the local deaf school too, have left the local deaf community feeling as though they're under siege. You ... Continue reading → Thu, Sep 15 2011 Transcript of my interview with Radio 4 Charlie Swinbourne Two days after the BBC News film about subtitle glasses was shown on TV, I took a short break in between picking up copies of the order of service for our wedding and taking my kids to the park (!) ... Continue reading → Mon, Sep 05 2011 Canadians also suffer poor service in cinemas Charlie Swinbourne Looks like the problems UK deaf film fans are shared across the world. Here's an article from Canada which mirrors a lot of the issues us Brits face... Mon, Sep 05 2011 Subtitle glasses offer deaf cinema goers a new future Charlie Swinbourne Apologies for taking two whole weeks to blog about this – I got married a week ago and things were very hectic at the time! After writing a Guardian comment article about the poor service deaf cinema fans receive here ... Continue reading → Sat, Sep 03 2011 Propaganda film shows how Chinese people were told... Charlie Swinbourne Thisfascinating Chinese propaganda videohas been doing the rounds for the last couple of weeks after being added to YouTube.Remarkably, itshows how, during the Cultural Revolution,the Chinese people were told thatacupuncture could cure deafness. It begins by introducing us to a ... Continue reading → Tue, Aug 16 2011 Why we should thank Sarah Cox. Possibly. Charlie Swinbourne A couple of weeks ago, the Radio 1 DJ Sarah Cox went to the cinema to see the hit comedy Bridesmaids. In the brief time between reaching the end of the box office queue and entering the auditorium, she managed ... Continue reading → Thu, Aug 11 2011 Our award-winning animator, James Merry Charlie Swinbourne Many of you know that William Mager and I have worked as a filmmaking partnership for several years now – on Hands Solo, The Fingerspellers and My Song – with William directing while I get to write the scripts! What ... Continue reading → Thu, Aug 11 2011 Guardian article: Why Angry Boys puerile deaf kid is my...
Charlie Swinbourne My latest Guardian article was published in today's G2 supplement, and is all about a deaf character called Nathan in Chris Lilley's very rude mockumentary series Angry Boys. Nathan is dominated by his twin brother Daniel in the series, but ... Continue reading → Thu, Aug 11 2011 |
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