| Description | Interview with Margaret Scorer from Newcastle. She continues to talk about coming to terms with her condition, the need to use mobility aids to cross roads, her difficulties in accepting not being able to decorate the house or do craftwork, her wish to be busy and active, and the effect that her condition has had on her life with her husband and family (tracks 1-2).
Track 3: Charles Parker recites a poem about blindness beginning 'Half in Darkness, Half in Light' pinned on the wall at the pre-vocational training centre at Torquay 2.31 mins
Track 4: recording setup 0.15 mins
Interview with Iris Otley from Selby, Yorkshire. She talks about her early life, losing some of her sight as a child and her employment as a nurse in Leeds, working in different wards. She discusses the constraints on her career due to her sight problems and her feeling of disorientation when she lost more of her sight. She talks about her experiences of losing her sight completely and the treatment she received, the extent of her surviving vision and her feelings about the unhelpful attitudes and comments of sighted people. She discusses the embarrassment that sighted people seem to feel about blindness and her uncertainty about the benefits of the long cane, feeling it to be awkward to use (tracks 5-10).
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0764280 |