Tim Reddish is visually impaired and won numerous swimming medals when he competed in three Paralympics . He's been National Performance Director for the Disability Swim Team and he's chaired the British Paralympic Association. He's currently a member of the International Paralympic Committee Governing Board. We hear from him about the impact of delaying the 2020 games in Tokyo for a year.
And we learn about the blind Japanese women who travelled their country as Goze musical performers.
PRESENTER: Peter White
PRODUCER: Mike Young
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Folge vom 08.09.2020Paralympic Legend Tim Reddish On The Delayed 2020 Games; Who Were Japan's Goze Performers?
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Folge vom 01.09.2020Back To School, Safer Travel On Public TransportA look at what specialist and mainstream schools are doing to help blind pupils get back to school safely. Can social distancing be achieved without leaving a blind pupil feeling isolated? Advice from chartered environmental health practitioner Dr. Lisa Ackerley on using public transport again as safely as possible. PRESENTER: Peter White PRODUCER: Mike Young
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Folge vom 25.08.2020Drug Supplies After The Brexit Transition Period Ends; A Photographic Record Of Blind People During Italy's LockdownThe National Pharmacy Association and the Macular Society discuss how best to maintain a steady flow of drugs and medicines into the UK from the EU after the Brexit transition period runs out at the end of December. And we hear from Stefano Sbrulli, the Italian photographer who captured lockdown on film from the perspective of blind and visually impaired people in the country. We also speak to one of the people who was snapped by Stefano. PRESENTER: Peter White PRODUCER: Mike Young
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Folge vom 18.08.2020Heading Back To Work; "Blindness" At London's Donmar WarehouseWe look at the challenges facing people who are blind or visually impaired when they return to work for the first time since lockdown. We'll get advice from Maria Shinn. She's from ACAS which gives employees and employers free, impartial advice on workplace rights, rules and best practice. And our reporter Fern Lulham heads to London's Donmar Warehouse to check out a sound installation based on the novel "Blindness" by the Portuguese author José Saramago. Playwright Simon Stephens has adapted the book and Juliet Stevenson stars in the production which focuses on the the rise of a global pandemic.Presenter: Peter White. Producer: Mike Young.