| Description | Track 1: recording setup 0.27 mins
Interview with Bob Croyman, Roger Hinds and Mr Lyons, BPROs (Blind Persons Resettlement Officers) at the Ministry of Labour, Five Ways House, Brmingham. They talk about opportunities since the introduction in 1963 of placements for blind people in commercial and professional occupations by specialist officers based in employment exchanges and their collaboration work with RNIB (Royal National Institute for the Blind) placing officers. They talk about their own educational experiences and discuss the question of class division in the treatment of people with different qualifications. They discuss prejudice against blind people by the sighted world and sensitivities and shame they felt about the outward symbols of their disability such as the white cane, discuss new developments in mobility aids such as the sonar torch and the long cane, attitudes of sighted people towards blind people, their experiences of rehabilitation and employment after losing their sight, geographical barriers to placing blind people in employment, the employment of blind people during the Second World War and the conditions necessary for successful resettlements (tracks 2-5).
Total: 32.45 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0965780 |