Record

Ref NoMS 4000/6/1/54/13/C
TitleCD Rom listening copy
LevelItem
Date8 December 1966
DescriptionInterview with Graham Granger from Leicester, a student at Lickey Grange. He talks about football on television compared with on radio, discussing his preference for BBC football programmes and for David Coleman and Kenneth Wolstenholme (track 1)

Discussion between Charles Parker and a student about a torch and television programmes he likes (track 2)

Song 'The First Noel' and discussion of the lyrics (track 3)

Interview with Mr. G. Jones, a teacher at Lickey Grange school. He discusses the work of the musician George Miles and expresses his lack of faith in sighted people after spending time working with sighted people as a church organist and teacher. He discusses listening to BBC programmes on cinema organ music, talks about his suspicion that he misses parts of conversation because of sighted people's responses and gestures to each other, and his belief that sighted people only hear what they see. He discusses how this makes things difficult for him and that many blind people feel half alive because they are losing important elements of life (tracks 4-7)

Total: 16.37 mins

Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0964880
Extent1
FormatCd-rom
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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