YOUNG HEROES: LOUIS BRAILLE

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Written by Heather Conkie

Directed by Don McCutcheon

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	braillel01.wav "I was having difficulty getting messages to my troops at night. You know - advance, retreat and so on without attracting the enemy's attention. That's never a very good thing to do in the middle of a battle." braillel02.wav "Then I came up with the brilliant idea of making signs that my men could read in the dark merely by touch. I called it nocturnal writing." braillel03.wav "As a matter of fact I wasn't thinking of blind persons at all at the time, but then I thought 'why not?' It's simple enough. The different sounds are represented by groups of dots and dashes in relief."
	braillel04.wav "I call it sonography - the writing of sound." "Excuse me, Msr. Barbier?" "Uh - Captain Barbier." "Of course." braillel05.wav "What? Do the students here tell the director what to think?"
	braillel07.wav "Too many? I disagree entirely." braillel10.wav "But what do you want with spelling? Isn't it enough just to read and write?"
	braillel11.wav "(laughter) Like sighted people!" braillel12.wav "Sighted? Yes, and that is why I can help you. And if you had any sense of gratitude, you' would take the hand that leads you!"
	braillel14.wav "Rubbish! Did you hear that little guttersnipe? Proper spelling, indeed. He should be glad he can learn to read and write at all. He could be out begging on the streets like the rest of them."
	braillel15.wav "This is an outrage. It's a setup. That student was clearly been given the lines beforehand to memorize."
	braillel16.wav "I will do exactly that, otherwise this whole exervise has been a farce."

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