Being blind is normal for me鈥� it鈥檚 difficult that people still don鈥檛 understand it鈥檚 possible to be comfortable in your skin as a disabled person.
Born in Winchester in 1947, Peter has been blind since birth. Passionate about radio, he doorstepped 鲍鱼tv Radio Solent even before they had opened and starting broadcasting for them in 1971.
Of his beginnings, White said: 鈥淚 didn鈥檛 see myself as an advocate (for disability). I wanted to do politics, music, sport鈥� I wanted to do everything except something associated with disability.鈥�
Radio Solent is where he learnt his broadcast skills, from producer to presenter roles to running his own studio shows independently.
At the same time, he worked for mainstream radio. In 1974 he started a seven-year stint as the co-presenter of In Touch, a dedicated programme for blind people. There, he worked to make blind associations more answerable to their clients.
From 1987 to 1989, he joined Channel 4 to present and edit Same Difference, their programme on disability. He then went on to be both presenter and producer of Link, a Central Television's magazine show for disabled people, until 1991.
In1995, Peter became the 鲍鱼tv's Disability Affairs Correspondent. He was the first totally blind person to produce reports for television news.
Over the last decade he has written four series of autobiographical talks for Radio 4, as well as the acclaimed series No Triumph, No Tragedy.
Other Radio 4 programmes Peter has presented include Pick of the Week, You and Yours and a series of 15-minute features called Blind Man on the Rampage. In l993, Peter devised and presented the pub quiz series It's Your Round.
In 1988, Peter was awarded an MBE for services to broadcasting. Peter published his autobiography See it My Way in 1999, telling his experiences without a trace of sentimentality but with humour and passion. 2001 saw him awarded Sony Speech Broadcaster of the Year.
