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Tom Walker is a freelance radio journalist, producer and presenter and in these podcasts, he speaks to visually impaired people about their lives and gives them the time to tell their story.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 43 days
Average audio length:
27 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
39 episodes
since Feb. 4, 2021
episodic
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To what extent have women's lives changed in the past 60
years?
This is the question I discuss in this podcast with the
visually impaired writer and actor, Mandy Redvers-Rowe.
Working with the Liverpool-based theatre group, Collective
Encounters, Mandy has written Auntie, which draws o…
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In this podcast, Tom Walker talks to Dave Evans who grew up
in apartheid South Africa. On leaving school, Dave became increasingly aware of
the injustices caused by the South African government's racist policies. Dave
now lives in Wallasey, Merseyside, with
his partner jenny, where he continu…
In this podcast, I talk to a visually impaired storyteller, teacher and voice-coach about the challenges his disability presents him with during his working life.
This is an interview with Graham Trust from the Liverpool band The Vow, which was originally broadcast on Mandy Woodman's All things Rock and Indie show on Ultimate Radio in February 2022.
Very sadly, Graham passed away earlier this week so I'm issuing this as a podcast in tribute to him.
Rest in…
In this podcast, tom Walker talks to Geoff Cope who, after a successful
career playing cricket for Yorkshire and England, was diagnosed at the age of
37 with the eye condition, Retinitis Pigmentosa. Geoff shared dressing rooms
with some giants of the game including Geoffrey Boycott and Freddie True…
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to lose your eyesight?
The American author and writer, Jon Gingerich has retinitis pigmentosa. RP is a progressive condition which means that a person’s sight will continue to get worse over the years. Often, after the vision has been stable…
From a victim of the Omagh bombing to a winner of The Voice, Tom Walker talked to some extraordinary visually impaired people while recording an edition of the In Touch Programme for BBC Radio 4 some years ago.
As you will hear in the Christmas edition of my That'll be the Day podcast, there's so much more to Penny Melville-Brown from Fareham, than losing her sight or being the first female naval barrister.
Throughout her life, Penny has known success and disaster in equal measure, but what becom…
In this podcast, Tom Walker talks to Deborah Fairclough, a visually impaired woman from Sheffield, whose recent experience of travelling by train was quite traumatic. When the assistance Deborah booked didn’t turn up to help her to get off the train, she had no option other than to try to do that i…
In this podcast, Tom Walker talks to Alan McCoomb from Liverpool who, at the age of 34, had a stroke which resulted in him losing his sight and in considerable cognitive deficit. The doctors said Alan was lucky to survive. Since then, Alan has taken advantage of the opportunities that have come his…
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