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Supporting Content

• Death in Trieste

  A 1760s murder still informs ideas about aesthetics, a certain sort of sex, and death.

  

• Watch: My Deaf World

  Five compelling experiences of what it is like to be deaf in 21st-century Britain.

  

• Five figures from the arts and science introduce books that changed their lives and work.

  

• Download The Essay

  Download all the episodes from the series and listen at your leisure.

  

• The Essay – Sign Language Is My Language: Christopher Laing

  Architect Christopher Laing on SignStrokes, a standardised sign language for architecture

  Duration: 13:38

• The Essay – Sign Language Is My Language: Robert Adam

  Robert Adam asks, 'Who are the arbiters of British Sign Language?'

  Duration: 13:30

• The Essay – Sign Language Is My Language: Deepa Shastri

  Deepa Shastri explores how the arts and sign language go hand-in-hand.

  Duration: 13:28

• The Essay – Sign Language Is My Language: Tina Kelberman

  Tina Kelberman on growing up in a Jewish household using British Sign Language.

  Duration: 13:27
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