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A few good interpreters - sign language and Deaf jurors, poor transport customer service, drugs and AI
Manage episode 290697010 series 1573684
Finally, Deaf people have to endure jury duty… ahem, can fulfil their civic duty like everyone else. After many years of campaigning Deaf people who use sign language, will be able to serve on juries. Common law rules ban the presence of a “stranger” in the jury deliberation room, but this will now be changed, allowing a BSL interpreter in.
Wow, last month’s show was popular! We heard from so many of you so we bumped Listeners Corner to the middle of the show so you might get to hear it for a change.
We start the show with travel. In the UK, a disabled woman who was left stranded on trains and station platforms more than 30 times by a rail company, has been awarded compensation of £17,000. Meanwhile in the USA, Uber has been ordered to pay $1.1m (£795,000) to a blind woman who was refused rides on 14 occasions. We discuss both the tiresome lack of inclusion of disabled people on transport as well as the disparity between compensation awards in the UK and the USA.
Can Artificial intelligence think, and feel, and one day replace humans? What is the journey a bag of drugs takes from source to user? Both questions are asked in our Cultural Corner with Geoff.
Links
Uber payout, class action, blind people.
Electric Vehicles Charging Points Disability Survey
Cultural corner
Klara & The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
ZeroZeroZero
Amazon Prime / Sky Atlantic / Now TV
Kapitel
1. Transport Fines (00:00:50)
2. Electric Charging Points (00:09:21)
3. Listener's Corner (00:13:52)
4. Deaf Jurors (00:20:43)
5. Cultural Corner with Geoff Adams-Spink (00:27:54)
104 Episoden
Manage episode 290697010 series 1573684
Finally, Deaf people have to endure jury duty… ahem, can fulfil their civic duty like everyone else. After many years of campaigning Deaf people who use sign language, will be able to serve on juries. Common law rules ban the presence of a “stranger” in the jury deliberation room, but this will now be changed, allowing a BSL interpreter in.
Wow, last month’s show was popular! We heard from so many of you so we bumped Listeners Corner to the middle of the show so you might get to hear it for a change.
We start the show with travel. In the UK, a disabled woman who was left stranded on trains and station platforms more than 30 times by a rail company, has been awarded compensation of £17,000. Meanwhile in the USA, Uber has been ordered to pay $1.1m (£795,000) to a blind woman who was refused rides on 14 occasions. We discuss both the tiresome lack of inclusion of disabled people on transport as well as the disparity between compensation awards in the UK and the USA.
Can Artificial intelligence think, and feel, and one day replace humans? What is the journey a bag of drugs takes from source to user? Both questions are asked in our Cultural Corner with Geoff.
Links
Uber payout, class action, blind people.
Electric Vehicles Charging Points Disability Survey
Cultural corner
Klara & The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
ZeroZeroZero
Amazon Prime / Sky Atlantic / Now TV
Kapitel
1. Transport Fines (00:00:50)
2. Electric Charging Points (00:09:21)
3. Listener's Corner (00:13:52)
4. Deaf Jurors (00:20:43)
5. Cultural Corner with Geoff Adams-Spink (00:27:54)
104 Episoden
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