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Tessa Padden interviews Dr Paddy Ladd about how he came to create the word ‘Deafhood’ in 1993.
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Close Up 3: Paddy Ladd (Part 2)
Tessa Padden interviews Dr Paddy Ladd about his experiences, which led him to be one of the Deaf community's leading activists.
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Chat show (2018). The third series of Close Up, the BSL Zone's in-depth interviews with well-known Deaf people. In this episode, Tessa Padden interviews Dr Paddy Ladd about his experiences, which led him from being a hippy university graduate to one of the leading activists in the Deaf community. A founder member of the National Union of the Deaf (NUD), he was also a pioneer at the beginning of TV programmes for Deaf people. A BSLBT production, produced by Tessa Padden and Bob Duncan.
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