It is more than 30 years since Ben Elton’s TV rant about the decline of British Rail – and he is here again to explore how much of a shambles railways across the UK are today. Hollie Richardson Ben Elton: The Great Railway Disaster 8pm, Channel 4 We see Ayling-Ellis’s journey to her first West End role in As You Like It and witness her speaking to, among others, Rosie Cooper MP, who led the campaign to get British Sign Language officially recognised in law, and her own mother, who still questions decisions she made in bringing up a deaf child. “Suddenly, the focus was on what I could do, not what I couldn’t do,” she says in this enlightening documentary that challenges perceptions of deafness. ![]() In 2021, the Strictly Come Dancing studio fell silent while its first deaf contestant, Rose Ayling-Ellis, danced with Giovanni Pernice – and a champion was born, in more ways than one.
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