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. 

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