Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the

telly we share what we've been watching

Cladie Aide.

Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.

Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.

And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds. This is the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service.

November 2020 marks 25 years since the passing of the Disability Discrimination Act in the UK,

which made it illegal for employers and service providers to discriminate against someone because they're disabled.

All this week we're looking at milestones in the history of disabled people around the world.

We'll start by remembering the story of Helen Keller, who was one of the most famous people in America for much of the 20th century.

Born in 1880, she became deaf and blind after a childhood illness,

but learned how to communicate using a manual sign language.

In this room sits a remarkable woman. She is Miss Helen Keller. She does not see the room

or the book that she's reading. She sees nothing. She does not hear the rusting of the

curtains behind her. She hears nothing. She is death, death and blind.

I don't know about England but sorry. death and blind.

I don't know about England but certainly over here all American children read about her in

third or fourth grade and when you're eight or nine years old then everybody would know somehow that she was my great aunt and I would

teach the whole class, the manual alphabet and that was a lot of fun and we send messages

behind our teachers back and stuff.

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