Talk Video

‘Talk’ is an award-winning 12 minute film which challenges misconceptions about disability in a creative and entertaining way. Starring TV heart-throb Jonathan Kerrigan of BBC’s ‘Casualty’ fame, ‘Talk’ portrays a society in which non-disabled people are a pitied minority and disabled people live full and active lives. Kerrigan plays a business executive, whose negative preconceptions of disability are dramatically shattered.

Talk was screened at numerous independent UK film festivals, at the Palm Springs Film Festival, USA, the Osnabruck Film Festival, Austria and the 2002 Maui Film Festival, Hawaii, and won the Short Film Award at the Third Rushes Soho Shorts Film Festival in August 2001. As part of ‘Citizenship and Disability’, a classroom resource for teachers at Key Stages 3 and 4, Talk has been sent free to schools throughout England, and is used as part of the National Curriculum.

On this site you can view the whole video split into six sections. It is available in the following formats:

  • original
  • subtitled and BSL-signed
  • audio-described

Lesson 1 - A Disabling World

Original versions

Subtitled and BSL-signed versions

Audio-described versions

Lesson 2 - Citizenship and disability

Lesson 3 - Understanding disability

Lesson 4 - Overcoming barriers

Lesson 5 - My rights and responsibilities

Lesson 6 - Schools and disability

Lesson 7 - The local community and disability

Lesson 8 - The global community and disability