The show\u2019s writing team was also made up completely of emerging disabled writers, while director of all six episodes, Jordan Hogg, is also disabled.<\/p>\n
At an event for the series attended by RadioTimes.com<\/a> and other press, Hogg explained that the team looked to make the set \u201caccessible to everybody\u201d by putting in place reasonable adjustments on set with the show\u2019s creative coach, Jess Mabel Jones.<\/p>\n Hogg detailed some of these adjustments, saying: \u201cIf you look at it crudely, [Jess] is like an interpreter, essentially, for Leon and Sarah \u2013 she helps Leon and Sarah with these techniques. And we were kind of pioneering really, we were kind of figuring it out, going through a series of different techniques.\u201d<\/p>\n Hogg continued: \u201cWe had a technique called mirroring, where nine times out of ten, Jess did a performance and Leon and Sarah gave the performance back to the camera. So I could sit at the monitor thinking, \u2018Oh I can use that line, I can use that cut\u2019. But sometimes we needed to go to nuclear, so I had to perform a scene to Leon and he performed it back to me.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I had no idea of what shot I had or what I could use or what I couldn\u2019t use because obviously I couldn\u2019t see what was going on on the other side of the camera. But as a director to try and get inside the character\u2019s head like that and perform and get the right stuff from the guys was great.<\/p>\n \u201cWe didn\u2019t just put in stuff for Leon and Sarah, we totally changed the industry in how we\u2019ve done them, we were accessible to everybody. We did an easy read call-sheet which, if you look at call-sheets, it\u2019s like looking at the Matrix. But we did a really simple call, it was just time for breakfast, time for lunch and all the scenes we\u2019re doing and that was it.\u201d<\/p> Hogg explained that everyone on the production also wore name badges, including \u201ctheir name on it, their job and their pronouns and something they liked\u201d. Hogg said this was partly because \u201cnine times out of ten people don\u2019t know what a grip does, people don\u2019t know what a best boy does and what-not\u201d.<\/p>\n He continued: \u201cYou could just go up to these people and ask them what their job does. It started conversations and things, just created a nice environment for everybody.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd these things we did just literally cost nothing. It was ultimately the will we had to make this accessible to everybody, that\u2019s all it took, and all we thought about was everybody\u2019s individual needs, we treated everybody as an individual, not as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n At the same event, Hogg also explained why he wanted to show to be \u201cthe British version of This Is Us\u201d<\/a>, saying: \u201cI think the audience will very quickly learn that everybody needs a bit of Ralph and Katie in their life.\u201d<\/p>\n Ralph & Katie is available in full on BBC iPlayer<\/a> now, while the first two episodes air on BBC One at 9pm and 9:30pm. C<\/strong>heck out our\u00a0Drama<\/a>\u00a0hub for more news, interviews and features or find something to watch with\u00a0<\/strong>our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n The latest issue of Radio Times magazine is on sale now \u2013\u00a0subscribe now<\/a>\u00a0and get the next 12 issues for only \u00a31. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to the\u00a0Radio Times podcast<\/a>\u00a0with Jane Garvey.<\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By James Hibbs Published: Wednesday, 05 October 2022 at 12:00 am New comedy-drama Ralph & Katie is a spin-off from The A Word and focuses on the two titular characters who were first seen in that original show, played by Leon Harrop and Sarah Gordy, both actors with Down\u2019s Syndrome. 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