| Description | Interview with Gordon Greenhalgh from Hull. He continues to discuss his work transcribing printed texts into braille, the equipment used to transcribe books, the difficulty for sighted people to read interlinear braille, and the use of rougher textured paper to make braille easier to read. He goes on to describe different methods used for reading braille, his belief that sighted people need to change their attitudes about the capabilities of blind people, and the lack of opportunity and freedom offered to blind children.
He explains his view that there is a complacency and lack of co-ordination in training offered by different organisations for blind people and thinks that sighted society views blind people as second class citizens and tries to keep them hidden away in institutions. He talks about spending time in prison and the effects that this experience had on his view of society and its treatment of vulnerable people, his realisation that many people feel helpless and his ability to do something to help. He believes that blind people would rather have constructive help than pity and considers that the majority of blind people are not given the opportunity to use their abilities, that society as a whole is unhappy and needs to change its outlook, and that there is no true love in the world. He goes on to discuss the lack of control that blind people have over their lives, his offers to do free technical transcription work for individual blind people and the difficulties involved in putting mathematical and technical texts onto audio tape. He emphasises the need for the braille system to be improved and for the American Perkins machine to be used more widely (tracks 1-15).
Total: 48.53 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0730680 |