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Sound by Bella Bathurst: 3. Fighting

3. Fighting

Sound by Bella Bathurst

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Bella continues to try to fight her deafness - and herself.

Bella tries to fight her deafness - and herself - as loneliness and isolation threaten to overwhelm her. Read by Adjoa Andoh.

Bella continues to try to fight her deafness - and herself. 

Her loneliness and isolation is typical of people who have lost their hearing, she finds. Depression and social anxiety are very common.

In 1997, Bella began to go deaf. Within a few months, she had lost half her hearing, and the rest was slipping away. She wasn't just missing punchlines, she was missing most of the conversation - and all of the jokes. For the next 12 years deafness shaped her life.

Sound draws on this experience, exploring the practical and emotional impact of losing your hearing, and what it teaches you about listening and silence, music and noise.

Read by Adjoa Andoh.

Abridged by Jo Coombs.

Producer: Hannah Marshall

A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2017.

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Bella Bathurst explores the practical and emotional impact of losing one's hearing.

Drawing on her own experience, Bella Bathurst explores the practical and emotional impact of losing one's hearing.

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