The call from the BBC came in the middle of Saturday afternoon. They had seen the footage about Signly by their colleagues at BBC South a few days earlier, and now wanted someone to be interviewed, the following day, live on the sofa, for BBC Breakfast and maybe BBC News. It was then a mad panic to see who from the Signly partners was available to drop everythi ng and head up to Salford – L.S.Lowry country – in time for the first interview at 07:20, ideally overnight – the B

Why did you become an interpreter? “I felt it was the right time for me to make a career change – I was an engineer and was getting fed up with working outside in the cold and wet!” What did you have to do to become an interpreter? “Well I had to become qualified and it was quite a lengthy process. I studied my Level 1 and Level 2 at evening school, followed by a pre Level 3 course which gave you all the tools to be able to go out into the world and collect the evidence on