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I love my Dog named Lilah, Mabel. I love my family. I love Stoke City. I love Girlguiding. I’m a Community Health Champion with VAST and I sing in a choir and perform solos.

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Currently watching #fascinating TV show on #BBC2 with blind comedian #ChrisMcCausland exploring options in tech for accessibility, such as self-driving cars, glasses and phone apps… amazing to watch how he does life now, let alone what else is coming to help him.

23.11.2025 20:18 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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Very interesting programme by Chris McCausland on tech and AI - whether you have any disabilities or not!

More here:

connect.ac.open.uk/seeingintoth...

#Disabled #Disability

23.11.2025 23:09 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Chris McCausland: Seeing into the Future review – the comic just can’t hide his emotion in this mind-blowing show He tries to play the stoic in this look at the incredible changes to disabled peoples’ lives that tech could bring. But the radical benefits of one piece of kit leave him visibly moved

I reviewed Chris McCausland: Seeing into the Future - a mind-blowing doc that does a great job of showing how tech can transform disabled people’s lives (but could do more on the tension in how much of it is made by The Worst Men On Earth). www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

23.11.2025 20:55 — 👍 35    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0
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Chris McCausland: Seeing into the Future – an astonishing look at how tech is changing disabled people’s lives Prepare to have your perspective shattered by the comedian’s visits to our US tech overlords. The upcoming advancements for those with disabilities are life-changing

Chris McCausland: Seeing into the Future – an astonishing look at how tech is changing disabled people’s lives

22.11.2025 08:59 — 👍 53    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 3
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Chris McCausland: Seeing into the Future review – the comic just can’t hide his emotion in this mind-blowing show He tries to play the stoic in this look at the incredible changes to disabled peoples’ lives that tech could bring. But the radical benefits of one piece of kit leave him visibly moved

Chris McCausland: Seeing into the Future review – the comic just can’t hide his emotion in this mind-blowing show

23.11.2025 21:31 — 👍 64    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0
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At the New Vic Theatre with my Dad, to watch the performance of Round the Horne.😊

19.11.2025 19:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Laurel & Hardy

Laurel & Hardy

Chris McCausland

Chris McCausland

Sir Lenny Henry

Sir Lenny Henry

Ronald Lacey

Ronald Lacey

#InternationalMensDay2025

19.11.2025 10:10 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Chris McCausland is joining the panel on tonight's Never Mind The Buzzcocks! Tune in to 9pm on Sky Max and streaming on NOW.

18.11.2025 17:07 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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a baby wearing a yellow shirt with a smiley face on it is smiling ALT: a baby wearing a yellow shirt with a smiley face on it is smiling

Watching buzzcocks doing the lyrics round.

Greg Davies: "I wanna kiss you but I want it too much..."

Chris McCausland: "Greg Wallace, Masterchef"

I think I have a new hernia

18.11.2025 19:54 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Listening to fascinating tales from #ChrisMcCausland being interviewed by #EmmaBarnett on ‘Ready To Talk’ #BBCSounds podcast - not just about #Strictly, but also much from his life & becoming fully-blind. He is wonderfully-open in talking about all his experiences & how it all happened, bravo!

17.11.2025 11:22 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Chris McCausland: ‘My most embarrassing moment? Going into an undertaker’s thinking it was a barber’s’ The comedian on his geeky teenage years, cheating in an exam and why Strictly is his biggest achievement

Chris McCausland: ‘My most embarrassing moment? Going into an undertaker’s thinking it was a barber’s’

15.11.2025 14:24 — 👍 33    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0
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Marketing, @darrenwalshpuns.bsky.social style! 👇

If you liked this you're going to love DO YOU LIKE PUNS?

Combining sound effects, videos, one-liners & improvised jokes, prepare for a comedy show like no other, bar pun. Book now, li is two short.

🎟️ boundandgaggedcomedy.com/bandg-tour-d...

14.11.2025 15:42 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Retro RHLSTP 122 - Chris McCausland | RHLSTP with Richard Herring Brian Conley’s C*ck

#Podcasts #Comedy
RHLSTP with Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social
Retro RHLSTP 122 - Chris McCausland
A Retro episode of #RHLSTP with Chris McCausland
shows.acast.com/rhlstp/episo...

10.11.2025 07:32 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The Open University We are pleased to share that our Praxis Immersive Technologies Hub leader, Lisa Bowers, contributed her expertise on the upcoming BBC programme Seeing into the Future.The programme offers viewers a…

Praxis Hub lead, Lisa Bowers, contributes her expertise to the BBC show ‘Seeing into the Future’!
Presented by Chris McCausland it explores emerging tech enhancing life for those with different ability needs
📺 Sun 23rd Nov 8pm BBC Two
More on our website
university.open.ac.uk/scholarship-...

11.11.2025 09:41 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Chris McCausland: ‘My most embarrassing moment? Going into an undertaker’s thinking it was a barber’s’ The comedian on his geeky teenage years, cheating in an exam and why Strictly is his biggest achievement

Chris McCausland: ‘My most embarrassing moment? Going into an undertaker’s thinking it was a barber’s’

15.11.2025 10:19 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Never Mind the Buzzcocks S5 (33) E7
Sophie Willan, Tom Grennan, Chris McCausland, Greg Davies, Jamali Maddix, Noel Fielding & Nadine Coyle
Premiere: 2am/9pm, Tuesday 18/11/2025, Sky Max
(Requires a Sky or NOW subscription)
@gregdaviescomedian.bsky.social
#gregdavies

04.11.2025 11:47 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Chris McCausland might not know Portuguese but he sure knows comedy!

Grab a ticket for his EPIC tour, Yonks now: www.boundandgaggedcomedy.com/bandg-tour-y...

04.11.2025 15:01 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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We can't wait to see Chris McCausland back on The Graham Norton Show sofa, tonight!

Joining him is an incredible line up of Malala Yousafzai, Keira Knightley and Aimee Lou Wood.

Tune in at 10.40pm on BBC One.

31.10.2025 16:04 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Strictly winner Chris McCausland's heartbreak after daughter's 'broken' comment

Comedian, Strictly Come Dancing champion and father Chris McCausland has confessed to feeling "guilty" about bringing his daughter into the world.

31.10.2025 19:32 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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A big thank you to everyone who has messaged, sent cards and presents. I have had a lovely 40th birthday.

30.10.2025 23:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Celebrating @rachelemily85.bsky.social Rachel’s 40th bithday today, at our Places of Welcome Community Lounge.

30.10.2025 21:42 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Do you like music? Do you enjoy singing? Every Thursday afternoon at 2.45pm until 4.00pm the Stoke-on-Trent Methodist Singers, rehearse here at @templestfenton.bsky.social Street Methodist Church & Community Centre Fenton.

29.10.2025 19:12 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Today marks my last day of being 39, the last day of my thirties. Tomorrow a brand new decade, my forties! #Thirties #Forties 😊

29.10.2025 17:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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BBC One - Jimmy McGovern's Moving On, Series 6, Blind A visitor has an unexpected effect on a couple with marriage problems.

This was a great episode of Jimmy McGovern's BBC Moving On - Blind

The first time I saw Chris McCausland in 2014 📺

There is a great quote they used in the episode that I've never forgotten.

"There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday"

Robert Nathan

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

23.10.2025 19:29 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Tonight!

Jon Long and Dr Tara Shine are joined by Strictly and Bafta winner Chris McCausland, and special guest Mike Berners-Lee, to discuss The Carbon Cost of Tech, The Internet and AI.

📅 Tonight
⏲️ 18:30
🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

An Unusual prod, sound by us.

15.10.2025 16:13 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Myself and my Dad, have had a lovely evening at Crewe Lyceum. The warm up act Marjolein Robertson was brilliant. It was lovely to see the amazing Ardal O'Hanlon. Ardal’s show was absolutely amazing and fantastic 😀 #NotHimself

12.10.2025 23:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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At Crewe Lyceum with my Dad, for early 40th Birthday present to see my favourite stand up comedian Ardal O'Hanlon!😁

12.10.2025 18:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
On a blue background, the front over of Chris' new book. The cover is yellow and has a headshot of Chris smiling. Text on the cover reads: "The thing about Chris is that he's funnier than everyone else." Richard Osman. Chris McCausland - the Autobiography. Keep Laughing.

On a blue background, the front over of Chris' new book. The cover is yellow and has a headshot of Chris smiling. Text on the cover reads: "The thing about Chris is that he's funnier than everyone else." Richard Osman. Chris McCausland - the Autobiography. Keep Laughing.

HUGE CONGRATS to Chris McCausland on the launch of his autobiography.

Comedian, actor, dancing phenomenon and now author!!!!

Buy your copy here: www.amazon.co.uk/Keep-Laughin...

10.10.2025 12:07 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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BBC Radio 6 Music
Craig Charles

Stand-up comedian Chris McCausland joins Craig to chat about his new autobiography 'Keep Laughing', as well as discussing his latest stand-up tour.

06.10.2025 12:00 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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What Did You Do Yesterday? with Max Rushden & David O'Doherty Comedy Podcast · Updated Twice Weekly · A podcast where people tell us what they did yesterday....

CHRIS MCCAUSLAND IS TODAY'S YESTERDAY!!!
xoxoxox

podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/w...

28.09.2025 09:52 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

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