| Description | Interview with Mrs Hancocks. She talks about her family's protectiveness towards her and their reluctance to let her get married. She talks about her desire for a home of her own, being trained in domestic science at school and at college in Dudley, and her enjoyment of cooking and 'trying things out'. She explains how she travelled to work in Wolverhampton, accompanied by friends or guides, and her reluctance to go out dancing in the company of sighted people because of her perception that they were uneasy in the company of people with visual impairments because they are 'different'. She recounts instances where sighted people have behaved differently towards her, and talks about the barriers that often exist between blind and sighted people (tracks 1-4).
Mr Hancocks joins the conversation to discuss the difficult relationships between blind and sighted people, the feeling that sighted people have that they have nothing in common with blind people, and feeling segregated. He thinks that this is inevitable because of the invisible barrier that exists between blind people and sighted people, which many sighted people probably would not admit to (tracks 5-6).
Total: 16.40 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0999980 |