| Description | Interview with Jean Russell, proof reader at the Scottish braille press. She continues to talk about her experiences of blindness, including the mental images she associates with different colours, her awareness of darkness, and her judgement of people by their voices. She talks about her education at Edinburgh Blind School, her family background and her feelings of frustration and boredom at having to take part in games as a child. She discusses not learning handwriting as a child, the frustration of her ambitions to be a shorthand typist and the lack of affection shown to blind children at her school, her feelings of abandonment when she arrived at school, having to learn to cope with life alone and her resentment of blindness. She talks about the benefits she gained from her education, feeling different from her sighted friends when she moved house as a teenager and having to build up her defences against getting hurt by other people. She talks about the comfort her religious faith has given her and the churches she attended as a child, her feelings that her blindness enabled her to look after her mother when she became ill, and the difficult time the family had around that time. She talks about a lodger that the family had, called Ruby, who became a friend, and getting her job at the Braille press (tracks 1-11).
Total: 33.02 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0998480 |