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See Hear is a weekly magazine programme for deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
, broadcast on Wednesday afternoons at 1pm. The programme focuses on the British and the worldwide deaf community and covers a broad range of topics from areas such as education
Education

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, deaf people's rights, technology
Technology

Technology is a broad concept that deals with an animal species' usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how it affects an animal species' ability to control and adapt to its Natural environment....
 and language
Language

A language is a form of symbol communication in which elements are combined to represents something other than themselves. Language can also refer to the use of such systems as a general phenomenon....
. A regular segment is given over to Deaf News, which is presented by Tessa Padden. The programme is presented entirely in BSL
British Sign Language

File:Bsl.pngBritish Sign Language is the sign language used in the United Kingdom , and is the first or preferred language of deaf people in the UK; the number of signers has been put at 30,000 to 70,000....
 and is broadcast
Broadcasting

Broadcasting is distribution of Sound and/or video Signalling s which transmit programs to an audience. The audience may be the general public or a relatively large sub-audience, such as children or young adults....
 with voice-over
Voice-over

The term voice-over refers to a production technique where a Diegetic#Film_sound_and_music voice is broadcast live or pre-recorded in radio, television, film, theatre and/or presentation....
 and subtitles in English throughout the programme.
Hear was launched on BBC2 on 11 October 1981.






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See Hear is a weekly magazine programme for deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
, broadcast on Wednesday afternoons at 1pm. The programme focuses on the British and the worldwide deaf community and covers a broad range of topics from areas such as education
Education

File:Inukshuk Monterrey 1.jpgEducation can be seen as a product or a process and considered in a broad sense or a technical sense. According to philosophy of education George F....
, deaf people's rights, technology
Technology

Technology is a broad concept that deals with an animal species' usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how it affects an animal species' ability to control and adapt to its Natural environment....
 and language
Language

A language is a form of symbol communication in which elements are combined to represents something other than themselves. Language can also refer to the use of such systems as a general phenomenon....
. A regular segment is given over to Deaf News, which is presented by Tessa Padden. The programme is presented entirely in BSL
British Sign Language

File:Bsl.pngBritish Sign Language is the sign language used in the United Kingdom , and is the first or preferred language of deaf people in the UK; the number of signers has been put at 30,000 to 70,000....
 and is broadcast
Broadcasting

Broadcasting is distribution of Sound and/or video Signalling s which transmit programs to an audience. The audience may be the general public or a relatively large sub-audience, such as children or young adults....
 with voice-over
Voice-over

The term voice-over refers to a production technique where a Diegetic#Film_sound_and_music voice is broadcast live or pre-recorded in radio, television, film, theatre and/or presentation....
 and subtitles in English throughout the programme.

History


1980s

See Hear was launched on BBC2 on 11 October 1981. It was broadcast with open subtitles, and was presented in sign by Martin Colville, a hearing CODA
Child of deaf adult

A Child Of Deaf Adult is a hearing person who was raised by a Deaf parent or guardian. Many CODAs identify with Deaf culture and Hearing cultures....
, and a Deaf presenter
Presenter

A presenter, or host , is a person or organization responsible for running an event. A museum or university, for example, may be the presenter or host of an Collection ....
 Maggie Woolley. The programme was originally broadcast on Sunday afternoons during lunchtime. As the series went from strength to strength different topics, such as discussions, chat shows, and special editions focussing on technology and education for Deaf people were added that ran alongside the original magazine.

Over the years See Hear's appeal within the Deaf community increased, and with it the involvement of Clive Mason
Clive Mason

Clive Mason is a Deaf British television presenter born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. He was the first person to use British Sign Language on television....
, the series' longest serving presenter who joined in 1984. Clive was prominently involved with the See Hear Christmas
Christmas

Christmas , also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus. The day marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts Twelve Days of Christmas....
 and pantomime
Pantomime

Pantomime is a musical-comedy theatrical production traditionally found in Great Britain, Canada, Jamaica, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Republic of Ireland, Gibraltar and Republic of Malta, and is usually performed during the Christmas and New Year season....
 specials written by Terry Ruane
Terry Ruane

Terry Ruane is an English Actor and Director who became profoundly deaf as a result of meningitis at the age of 5. Although educated in an oral school, he is also a sign language user,and from 1974 he was the General Manager of the British Theatre of the Deaf under Pat Keysell which was the first-ever professional company of deaf actors to...
 and the late Dorothy Miles, two deaf people with strong backgrounds in Theatre. By the late 1980s the show was focussed on the important issues and concerns of members of the Deaf community. As the shows popularity grew more Deaf staff were recruited to work on the show, both behind the scenes as well as in front of the camera. As the shows neared its 10th anniversary, the BBC, along with other Deaf organisations felt that the show needed a change to keep it fresh.

See Hear took a brief hiatus
Hiatus (television)

In television scheduling, a hiatus refers to a break of at least several weeks in the normal schedule of a television program. It can occur during a season of a television program, or can be between television seasons ....
 from broadcast, while the format of the show was revamped. The new format had a broader scope than the previous one, because the producers felt that Deaf people were interested in different activities and experiences outside of their own community. When See Hear was broadcast following the new format the audience almost doubled. The new format was a success, and with this the BBC recognised BSL as a language.

1990s

During the 1990s See Hear was moved from the Sunday lunchtime slot to the Saturday morning slot. At this time the show was once again revamped, with new titles and music created for the show. The show was also moved to the Light House in Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton is a City status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough of the West Midlands , England. In 2004, the local government district had an estimated population of 239,100; the wider Urban Area had a population of List of English cities by population, which makes it the 13th most populous city in England....
 and new presenter Lara Crooks joined the staff. It was renamed See Hear on Saturday. Since the time of this revamp the show has constantly upgraded itself to keep up with the changes within the deaf community.

2000s

In 2001, See Hear celebrated its 20th anniversary, by launching three new projects, Switch, a drama series dealing with the lives and relationships of people within the wider deaf community, The House on the Hill, for young Deaf children, was written by viewer Amy Possart, and presented by Lesley McGilp and Julian Peedle-Calloo
Julian Peedle-Calloo

Julian Peedle-Calloo is a Deaf British television presenter. He is a presenter on deaf magazine programme See Hear.Peedle-Calloo has been deaf since birth....
, and Hay's Way, involving Deaf academic and historian
Historian

A historian is an individual who studies and writes about history, and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, systematic narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all events in time....
 John Hay visiting a city in the UK and delving into its past and discovering what it is like today.

See Hear celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2006. This time it included a segment which took a retrospective
Retrospective

Retrospective generally means to take a look back at events that already have taken place. For example, the term is used in medicine, describing a look back at a patient's medical history or lifestyle....
 look at the best bits of the show over its 25 year history. Coinciding with the 25th anniversary, in October 2006 See Hear switched from open subtitles, which had been used since the programme's inception, to closed subtitles
Subtitle (captioning)

Subtitles are textual versions of the dialog in films and television programs, usually displayed at the bottom of the screen. They can either be a form of written translation of a dialog in a foreign language, or a written rendering of the dialog in the same language, with or without added information to help viewers who are deaf and hard-o...
 that must be specially activated in order to appear.

At the end of the 2006-2007 series, it was announced that See Hear would move from its usual broadcast day of Saturday at 12pm to Wednesday, although the time of broadcast will remain unchanged.

See Hear now airs on BBC2 every Wednesday at 1pm.

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