Julian Peedle-Calloo (born 1977) is a British actor, writer, director and television presenter, he has been

deaf Deafness has varying definitions in cultural and medical contexts. In medical contexts, the meaning of deafness is hearing loss that precludes a person from understanding spoken language, an audiological condition. In this context it is written ...

since birth, and is a presenter of the BBC

magazine programme '' See Hear.''

Personal life

Julian Peedle-Calloo was born in Oxfordshire, England, in 1977, and has been Deaf since birth. He regards himself as being part of a linguistic minority, rather than identifying his deafness as a disability;

British Sign Language British Sign Language (BSL) is a sign language used in the United Kingdom (UK), and is the first or preferred language among the Deaf community in the UK. Based on the percentage of people who reported 'using British Sign Language at home' on ...

is his first language, and English (written and spoken) is his second language. He can hear a little with a hearing aid, but rarely uses one. He graduated from the

University of Wolverhampton The University of Wolverhampton is a public university located on four campuses across the West Midlands, Shropshire and Staffordshire in England. The roots of the university lie in the Wolverhampton Tradesmen's and Mechanics' Institute founde ...

with a 2:1 degree in electronic media in October 2000.

Career

Peedle-Calloo wrote and directed the 30-minute drama film ''Battle Lines'' (2014), about deaf people during the First World War, for online channel BSLZone. His other short films include ''5 Needles'' (2011) and ''Confession'' (2012). He is a presenter on deaf magazine programme '' See Hear''. As an actor, he has appeared in episodes of ''

New Tricks ''New Tricks'' is a British television police procedural The police show, or police crime drama, is a subgenre of procedural drama and detective fiction that emphasizes the investigative procedure of a police officer or department as the ...

'' and '' Holby City'' in 2012 and 2015 respectively.

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