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On our next programme we'll be launching a new "Cultural Review" strand, which kicks off by giving you the lowdown on the best festivals and arts events coming up this year. Radha is joined by journalist and art critic Melissa Mostyn and filmmaker and avid festival goer Stephen Collins to discuss the relevance and accessibility of music festivals for the Deaf community.

We'll also be testing out some of the latest communication technology, and revisiting the Grummitt family - who we filmed with several years ago - to see how technology has developed over the generations.

And, following on from last week's look at the evolution of sign language, Memnos will be exploring how BSL has been affected by the popularity of certain international signs.

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Featured Festivals

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Glastonbury Festival

Reading Festival

Love Box Festival

To watch this programme on the iPlayer, click here. If you want to have subtitles, just press the 's' on the right-hand side of the bottom bar that appears after you have pressed play.Ìý

Starting with the next edition of See Hear on Wednesday 29th April,ÌýMemnos willÌýbe taking a weekly look at some of the stories behind our BSL signs. Many thanks to the Centre for Deaf Studies at the University of Bristol for their helpful suggestions with these items.Ìý

See Hear is off the air this week, but willÌýreturnÌýnext Wednesday 29th April at 1pm on Â鶹Éç2.

On this week's programme we investigate allegations against a BSL teacher. Some of her students claim she has taken charity money raised by the Reading Deaf Children's Society and then failed to deliver lessons, while her local Deaf Centre has banned her after questions arose over disappearing funds.

We also speak to a special team at University College London who have been documenting the evolution of BSL since signs were first recorded back in the 8^th century. As well as researching fascinating facts about this history of signing, they update us on some of the very latest developments in BSL.

Inspired by Child of Our Time, the programme has been revisiting a group of four deaf youngsters every year to follow their progress. The children are now six, and are all enjoying thriving social lives outside of school.

Amie is still using her cochlear implant, and takes part in an after-school games club. Yasin, who also has a cochlear, has been enjoying 'Nature Detectives' activity group, and is also starting to learn Arabic so that he can read the Koran. BSL-user Lucy has been trying out new activities with hearing children - football wasn't a big success, but she's loving swimming. And Aidan has made the switch from sign language to an oral education at a mainstream school, and is making great progress at his theatre group.

If you would like to watch this episode on iPlayer just press here. For subtitles just press 's' on the right hand side of the bottom bar which appears after you have pressed play.

Inspired by Child of Our Time, the programme has been revisiting a group of four deaf youngsters every year to follow their progress. The children are now six, and are all enjoying thriving social lives outside of school.

Amie is still using her cochlear implant, and takes part in an after-school games club. Yasin, who also has a cochlear, has been enjoying 'Nature Detectives' activity group, and is also starting to learn Arabic so that he can read the Koran. BSL-user Lucy has been trying out new activities with hearing children - football wasn't a big success, but she's loving swimming. And Aidan has made the switch from sign language to an oral education at a mainstream school, and is making great progress at his theatre group.

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Today's programme meets TV presenter Pat Keysell. We revisit her groundbreaking work on the Â鶹Éç children's series, 'Vision On' from the 60s and 70s and discuss her commitment to The British Theatre of the Deaf.

If you would like to watch this episode on iPlayer just press here. For subtitles just press 's' on the right hand side of the bottom bar which appears after you have pressed play.