In Touch

Apr 08 2025 395 ep. 19 mins 6.1k
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News, views and information for people who are blind or partially sighted

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Dr Fred Reid

Apr 08 2025 18 mins  
In Touch dedicates this programme to the late Dr Fred Reid. His long career in academia and wider achievements make him one of the great blind all-rounders, having contributed to national campaigns that made a real difference to the lives of many blind and partially sighted people. He was also a historian, author, sportsman and lecturer at the University of Warwick. Fred tells his

Benefits Reform; Answering Your Questions

Apr 01 2025 18 mins  
In Touch returns to the issue of welfare reform, and how the proposed changes to benefits are likely to affect blind and partially sighted people. A panel of guests, comprising of Dominic Milne, The RNIB's Legal Rights Officer and Kevin Mulhern, visually impaired journalist and broadcaster, whose been covering the issue of benefits for visually impaired people for the best part of

Retina UK's Sight Loss Survey; CSUN Assistive Technology Conference

Mar 25 2025 18 mins  
The charity Retina UK are seeking feedback from people with inherited sight loss conditions to learn how they can best support this community and feed into medical research. The charity primarily supports people who are living with genetic conditions, often with a progressive decline in sight. Some of these conditions are well known, such as Retinitis Pigmentosa, Usher Syndrome and

Benefits Reform

Mar 18 2025 13 mins  
The government has announced its plans to reform the current welfare system with the aim of saving billions. In Touch has brought together a panel of guests to try to outline how the government's plans, outlined in a Green Paper, might affect the benefits that visually impaired people receive. Presenter: Peter White Producer: Beth Hemmings Production Coordinator: Liz PooleWebsite

Deafblindness

Mar 11 2025 18 mins  
How much do you know about deafblindness? If your answer is "very little", it seems you're in good company. Such is the lack of research on the condition that the charity Deafblind UK has collaborated with Birmingham City University to establish a new education and research centre. Said to be the first of its kind, its aim is to both undertake influential research and raise general

Blind Female CEOs

Mar 04 2025 18 mins  
In a recent episode of In Touch, we interviewed Sandi Wassmer, who at the time, we believed to be the UK's only blind female CEO. Among the very positive responses we received were a couple pointing us in the direction of two other blind women in the top job, and who would make excellent guests. Always keen to respond to listeners' suggestions, we were delighted when Agnes Lunny an

Consultation Exercise at RNIB; Blind Baker

Feb 25 2025 18 mins  
In an episode broadcast last summer, the RNIB's CEO, Matt Stringer joined us to discuss financial pressures facing the charity and the consequent need to save millions of pounds. Since then, we have invited RNIB back to talk to us about their subsequent plans, but they declined, citing confidentiality issues. Meanwhile, In Touch has received information about a consultation exercis

Myths and Assumptions about Blindness

Feb 18 2025 18 mins  
Natalie Doig is fascinated by myths and legends. Indeed, such is her passion for that which is "weird, wonderful and a little off kilter" that she stepped back from her career working in the disability rights sector to make a podcast about it. Called "Weird in the Wade", a recent episode explored the tale of "Blind George of Anstey". Natalie joins us to discuss Blind George and the

Update on Touch Screen Card Machines

Feb 11 2025 18 mins  
Back in November 2021, In Touch looked at accessibility problems with touch screen payment card machines. Fast forward to 2025 and the amount of contact we're still getting about this suggests very little progress has been made.In this episode, we talk to representatives from RNIB and the hospitality and finance industries to ask why card machines are still so high on our list of a

Unknown Unknowns!

Feb 04 2025 13 mins  
What are the things you don't know that you don't know?!That was the question posed to us by blind listener Lexi Hibberd who told us that there were aspects of everyday life like eye contact and other body language which hadn't been explained to her. What else then, she asked, didn't she know? We were so intrigued by Lexi's question that we thought we should explore it further. Joi