| Description | Interview with Mr Richards. He discusses opportunities for the employment of blind people in the Black Country, his belief that blind workers are capable of working in industries that have been automated but that employers do not want to recruit them. He talks about his own work during the Second World War, his expectation that he would enter sheltered employment after his sight deteriorated, and finding that his job opportunities were limited. He talks about attending George Dixon grammar school and the subjects he was taught, wanting to be able to use his technical skills, and the jobs his children now have. He explains what his financial situation was when he was receiving welfare payments and his efforts to give his children a good education, the early history of radio broadcasting in Birmingham and receiving television pictures in the 1930s. He goes on to talk about the strain that the low incomes received by blind workers can put on marriage and family life, the need for a married couple to work as a team and cases where marriages break up while people are on rehabilitation courses at Torquay. He acknowledges that people deal with these kinds of problems in different ways (tracks 1-5).
Total: 16.53 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF534B0493980 |