Close Up 3: Ilyaas Cader

Interview with Ilyaas Cader, a Deaf refugee from civil war in Sri Lanka, who has made his home in Britain.

Chat show (2018). The third series of Close Up, the BSL Zone's in-depth interviews with well-known Deaf people. In this episode, Tessa Padden interviews Ilyaas Cader, who fled civil war in Sri Lanka to seek a new life in Britain. As a boy, he survived the bombing of his Deaf school in Jaffna. In 2000, he walked hundreds of miles across eastern Europe as a refugee, before starting a new life as a mental health worker in London. How has life been for him since then?  A BSLBT production, produced by Tessa Padden and Bob Duncan.