[Slling-l] BSL interpreter for Scottish 1st Minister's COVID-19 briefing

[Woll, Bencie]

All formal government announcements about Covid-19 (including those made by the devolved governments of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland (both Irish SL and BSL are provided in Northern Ireland)  are simultaneously interpreted into BSL and available in real time on the BBC 24-hour channel and also available for streaming from the BBC iPlayer.

Professor Bencie Woll PhD, FBA FAAAS
Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre
University College London
49 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PD
www.dcal.ucl.ac.uk<http://www.dcal.ucl.ac.uk/>
+44-20-7679-8670

From: linguists interested in signed languages <SLLING-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU> On Behalf Of Mark Mandel
Sent: 31 August 2020 16:39
To: SLLING-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU
Subject: BSL interpreter for Scottish 1st Minister's COVID-19 briefing

In the 1-minute--47-second video in this BBC post, the First Minister's speech is interpreted into (what I presume is) BSL.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-53971946

Coronavirus in Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon 'concerned' over 160 new cases • 31 August 2020

(Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon is a Scottish politician serving as the fifth First Minister of Scotland and the Leader of the Scottish National Party since November 2014. --- Wikipedia)

--Mark Mandel

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