| Description | Interview with Walter Thornton, at Bournville. He talks about going fishing with other blinded people he met at St Dunstans, activities that can be more rewarding such as listening to music and assessing people's character through their voice and behaviour. He thinks that people spend more time controlling their features than they do their voice and discusses the policies of institutes for the blind which all do different jobs, and the need to co-ordinate blind welfare. He talks about the establishment of the long cane in the United States as a result of the Korean War, and the different attitudes towards blindness in America. He talks about the need for blind people to live and work in a sympathetic environment and to have security, and to be given the requisite amount of mobility training and help (tracks 1-6).
Total: 16.37 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF534B0396180 |