In Touch Podcast
News, views and information for people who are blind or partially sighted
Episodes to download
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Does it matter if your partner can see or not?
Tue 29 Aug 2017
What underlies the question, 'Is your partner visually impaired or sighted?'.
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An experienced actor and a young poet talk about the impact of their visual impairment
Tue 22 Aug 2017
With 16-year-old poet Grace Marsh and seasoned actor Karina Jones.
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Hearing the Solar Eclipse?
Tue 15 Aug 2017
How to hear America's solar eclipse. Allan Hennessey: Cambridge's top law graduate.
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Specialist travel and audio-described circus
Tue 1 Aug 2017
How do you describe a circus to blind children?
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Tech Advancements for ±«Óãtv and Away
Tue 25 Jul 2017
Pluses and minuses of technology for travel, recognising objects and getting information.
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Baking Blind and Moving house
Tue 11 Jul 2017
What are your rights when renting or buying a new home?
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Changing jobs, Washington State's blind governor
Tue 4 Jul 2017
Changing jobs when you are blind; Washington State's blind lieutenant governor.
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Why Can't I Sleep?
Tue 27 Jun 2017
The latest research on circadian sleep disorders in blind people.
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Retirement angst, Self-defence
Tue 20 Jun 2017
One blind man teaches self-defence to others; concerns about leaving the world of work.
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New partially sighted MP Marsha De Cordova
Tue 13 Jun 2017
New partially sighted MP Marsha De Cordova speaks exclusively to In Touch.
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Lovers not Carers
Tue 23 May 2017
Kirsten Hearn and Red Szell discuss the issues arising from lovers being seen as carers.
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The Braille Legacy Musical, International Blind Tennis
Tue 16 May 2017
The writer of a musical on Louis Braille's life, and the first blind tennis tournament.
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Andrew Bastawrous, Bristol blind running club
Tue 9 May 2017
Andrew Bastawrous CEO Peek talks about his work screening people for eye disease in Africa
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RNIB library services, Football commentary
Tue 18 Apr 2017
Tracy Pearson on the RNIB Library's services, and Tom Walker reports on football access.
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Sitarist Baluji Shrivastav OBE and Corinna Bauer, Harvard research
Tue 11 Apr 2017
Sitarist Baluji Shrivastav and Corinna Bauer from Harvard on new brain research.
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Acting CEO of Guide Dogs interview and the future of Pingo the guide dog
Tue 4 Apr 2017
Peter puts questions to Steve Vaid, the acting CEO of the charity Guide Dogs.
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Stem cell research and AMD
Tue 21 Mar 2017
Professor Pete Coffey reacts to the recent case of failed stem cell treatment in the US.
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Job-seeking discrimination and accessible gyms
Tue 14 Mar 2017
Ian Brooks was refused an interview due to his guide dog. Tom Walker goes to the gym.
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Benefits for visually impaired children, New scheme for journalists with disabilities
Tue 7 Mar 2017
James Harding, ±«Óãtv's director of news, on a new £1m fund to recruit disabled people.
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Blind man mistakenly tasered. Returning a Guide Dog
Tue 28 Feb 2017
Why was a blind man mistakenly tasered. Red Szell on returning his guide dog.
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Dr Tanvir Bush, Gough, Gary O'Donoghue on Tim Gebbels
Tue 21 Feb 2017
Tanvir Bush talks about her novel, and Australian film-maker Gough talks about his work.
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RNIB's acting head on the charity's future plans
Tue 14 Feb 2017
RNIB's Acting CEO Sally Harvey talks to Peter White about the charity's future plans.
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Leadership at GDBA and RNIB, Personal safety
Tue 7 Feb 2017
Media commentator Kevin Mulhern gives his view on the current leadership at RNIB and GDBA.
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NHS England Information Standards; guide dog owner sues taxi driver
Tue 31 Jan 2017
Olivia Butterworth on NHS Accessible Info Standard and GDO Charles Bloch on taxi access.
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Employment statistics and a chance to feed into the green paper on Work, Health & Disability
Tue 24 Jan 2017
RNIB's Geoff Fimister comments on the government's green paper on work and disability.
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In Touch from Northern Ireland with Tom Walker
Tue 17 Jan 2017
Tom Walker presents a special edition of the programme recorded in Northern Ireland.
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Canute Brailler and Amit Patel's camera-carrying guide dog
Tue 10 Jan 2017
Canute is the latest development in renewable Braille, and Amit Patel's videoing guide dog
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