Life in Lockdown
Six Deaf people in very different situations tell us about life during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Documentary (2020). In Life in Lockdown, several members of the Deaf community share their stories of living through the early stages of lockdown due to the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. At a time when everyone was isolating, how were Deaf people in the UK managing? Three families, an NHS worker, a wildlife conservationist and a woman stranded in India all help to make up this snapshot of how life in lockdown changed for everyone. Produced by the ITV SignPost team for BSLBT.
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