Losing the plot - Telegraph Thanks primarily to the influx of crime dramas from Scandinavia - where seemingly not a day goes by without a furrow-browed detective with a taste for quality knitwear being forced to investigate an impenetrable murder under leaden skies - subtitled drama has gone from being a rarity on British screens to a fact of life. It is hard to get through even the opening minutes of a middle-class dinner party without being informed of the virtues of this French thriller, or that Estonian whodunnit. But for those whose sight is not what it was, the absence of proper dubbing is a positive plague. It is, as David Blunkett tells the Radio Times, unfair to the elderly and disabled - as is the use of shoddy speech recognition systems to provide subtitling for the deaf, resulting in football players being fouled by zebras, and other such insanities. Now that's a real crime.