Charlie Swinbourne
Charlie Swinbourne is a deaf British journalist, scriptwriter and director.
Personal life[edit]
Swinbourne is partially deaf and was born to a deaf family. He used British Sign Language growing up.
Journalism[edit]
In 2012, Swinbourne founded and is the editor of the Limping Chicken, a popular news outlet focused on deaf issues. In December 2013, the Limping Chicken broke the news about the fake interpreter at Nelson Mandela's memorial service.[1]. The Limping Chicken regularly features pieces from deaf journalists.
Swinbourne has written for newspapers such as the Guardian[2], the Huffpost, the Mirror and the BBC Online[3][4].
Scriptwriter[edit]
In 2020, Swinbourne joined the scriptwriter team on BBC's longstanding soap Eastenders. As well as working as a consultant on a storyline for Ben Mitchell[5], he successfully pitched the idea for Frankie Lewis, the first BSL user, played by Rose Ayling-Ellis, a deaf actress.
Swinbourne has also writing credits on Casualty, developing episodes featuring the character of Jade Lovall, played by deaf actress Gabriella Leon[6]. The program went on winning the 2021 RTS award for best soap or continuing drama, a BAFTA, and was also nominated for a Rose D’Or[7].
In 2021 he wrote the drama "More than words" for BBC1, starring Sophie Stone, as part of Jimmy McGovern’s Moving On anthology series[8]
Other screenwriter credits include the mockumentary "Hands Solo", the TV mini-series "The Fingerspellers" and YouTube viral hit "Coming Out" (2007).
Director[edit]
Swinbourne has written and directed several documentaries, comedies and short movies. For BSL Zone he filmed the documentary series "Found", centred on deaf identity[9], the comedy series "Four Deaf Yorkshiremen" and the sketch show "Deaf funny", featuring deaf comedian John Smith and deaf actress Jean St Clair, for which he won an RTS Yorkshire Writer Award in 2018[10].
References[edit]
- ↑ "Charlie Swinbourne: How our news article triggered worldwide coverage of the 'fake' sign language interpreter story". The Limping Chicken. 13 December 2013.
- ↑ "Charlie Swinbourne". The Guardian.
- ↑ "BBC - Ouch! (disability) - Charlie Swinbourne". www.bbc.co.uk.
- ↑ "Has The Tribe changed what a deaf film can be?". BBC News. 14 May 2015.
- ↑ Lindsay, Duncan (23 February 2020). "Spoilers: EastEnders confirms that Ben Mitchell is deaf after tragedy". Metro.
- ↑ "Casualty made history with Jade Lovall episode". Digital Spy. 11 July 2020.
- ↑ "RTS Programme Awards 2021". Royal Television Society. 23 October 2020.
- ↑ "Jimmy McGovern's Moving On - Series 12: 5. More Than Words".
- ↑ "Found". BSL Zone.
- ↑ "From the Writers' Access Group to working as Story Consultant on Ben Mitchell's deafness storyline on EastEnders". BBC. 5 June 2020.
External links[edit]
- Charlie Swinbourne on IMDb
- Charlie Swinbourne on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 23: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Personal website
- The Limping Chicken
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