| Description | Interview with Mrs Hancocks. She continues to discuss using a Jacquard knitting machine, the help and advice she received from her brother who taught her the braille alphabet and some sign language before she went to a school for blind children, enjoying school activities because she could join in, and making adjustments to the sighted world. She reflects on her worries about having a social life in an environment where everyone else was sighted, her interest in classical music, performing in concerts and competitions, and her feeling that the sighted organisers thought that blind people were a 'problem'. She describes an instance of discrimination in a particular competition where she was effectively barred from winning, and talks about her continuing feelings of being disadvantaged because of her condition. She thinks that she might have had greater opportunities if she had had a guide dog or other mobility aids (tracks 1-7).
Total: 19.10 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF534B0494680 |