| Description | Interview with Lilian Wickens from Chislehurst, Kent. She continues to talk about her childhood experiences of blindness, her strict upbringing and her difficult relationship with her father. She discusses her interest in dancing, her first relationship with a boy, meeting her husband and getting married. She talks about her sense of freedom at leaving home, her anxieties about cooking and housework, setting up a home with her husband while he ran a public house and feeling imprisoned living above the pub. She discusses moving away from the pub, having her children and her relationship with them. She describes how she felt when she regained some sight and was able to see colours, how she came to have treatment on her eye, and the changes in her life including being able to see to feed birds, her new fears about going outside because of the speed of traffic, and her new enjoyment of going shopping for hats and seeing her children's faces. She talks about her understanding of what people's faces might look like from hearing their voices and being around them and how the reality differed from her imagination. She gives her opinion about the different effects on people who have been born blind and those who have lost their sight later in life (tracks 1-10).
Total: 32.36 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0733380 |