Record

Ref NoMS 4000/6/1/54/53/C
TitleCD Rom listening copy
LevelItem
Date6 January 1967
DescriptionInterview with Jack Gray from Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He talks about having to avoid some people who want to help him. His wife, Margaret, talks about guiding him in the streets. Jack Gray talks about being able to discuss something he had recently read (track 1).

Track 2: silence 10.24 mins

Jack Gray talks about the need to interact with sighted people and for blind peple to integrate into the community without having special accommodation and employment. He thinks he has been lucky to lose his sight when he was older because he has his memory of what things look like compensate for his lack of sight. He talks about the satisfaction he gets from his work and from the confidence that younger people with visual impairments gain from starting jobs, and recounts stories about some of the people he has helped to begin new jobs. He talks about the atmosphere at the factory where he works and the commitment of those who are employed there, and the difficulties for blind people with overprotective relatives (tracks 3-5).

Total: 32.24 mins

Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0965680
Extent1
FormatCd-rom
Physical DescriptionSome tracks recorded at very low levels
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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