The Daily Telegraph

DOCUMENTAR­Y

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Born Deaf, Raised Hearing – Our Lives

BBC One, 7.30pm; Wales, 8pm; not NI

Actor Jonny Cotsen was raised in Wales during the 1970s as a hearing child, despite being deaf. He talks to his mother about why, although taught to lip-read, he wasn’t given a chance to learn sign language or embrace his deaf identity.

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