| Description | Interview with Lilian Wickens from Chislehurst, Kent. She continues to discuss the changes in her life since regaining some of her sight, including her perception of distances and space, her anxieties about orientation and her methods for getting around without using a stick, her need to be helped by sighted people, and the fear many appear to have of blind people. She talks about disliking intolerant and narrow minded people and people's attitudes towards people who are blind. She talks about her feelings about the way sighted people use facial expressions, the adjustments she has made in her home since having some sight, and her frustration when people moved things in the home when she had no sight. She discusses her belief that sighted people do not value their sight as much as they should because they do not talk about the things they see and that sighted people should try to explain natural phenomena to blind people. She talks about her enjoyment of poetry and music and her wish to be able to read as sighted people can. She goes on to talk about some of the talking books she has and learning braille so that she can help other people without sight (tracks 1-8).
Interview with Richard Dufton, director of research at St Dunstans and co-ordinator of a research programme into sensory devices in reading and mobility. He talks about the reading project, converting printed word into a form that blind people can either hear or handle by touch, and the mobility project, supporting research into sonic mobility aids and binoral perception. He discusses his experience of losing his sight while serving in the Navy during the Second World War, his rehabilitation programme at St Dunstans learning braille, mobility and adapting his engineering skills, and working in Miles aircraft experimental unit in Reading. He also talks about his work on a project investigating the manufacture of the ballpoint pen (tracks 9-11).
Total: 32.49 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLAKF565D0733480 |