Our Friend in Bristol: Rachel Drummond-Hay
This year, the BBC is set to launch the drama Reunion (written by deaf Bristolian Billy Mager), ITV’s crime thriller Code of Silence stars deaf actor Rose Ayling-Ellis, and Retreat, a forthcoming BFI-funded thriller, is written and directed by Ted Evans, who is deaf, and features a deaf-led cast.
Then there’s the growing trend of deaf contributors on many of our most popular factual entertainment shows, with 2025 already seeing Imy as a contestant on The Great Pottery Throw Down and Sarah and Jon on Stacey Solomon’s Sort Your Life Out.