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News, views and information for people who are blind or partially sighted


Episode Date
Travelling Abroad
May 14, 2024
Sleep
May 07, 2024
Redundancies at Guide Dogs; Voting Equipment
Apr 30, 2024
Improvements to the Disabled Students' Allowance
Apr 23, 2024
Audio Description: New Ofcom Guidelines & Application in the Theatre
Apr 16, 2024
Hotel Stays with a Guide Dog; The Great Escape
Apr 09, 2024
Should Blindness be Front and Centre?
Apr 02, 2024
26/03/2024
Mar 26, 2024
The State of Vision Rehabilitation Services
Mar 19, 2024
The Impacts of an Inactive Government - Northern Ireland
Mar 12, 2024
RNIB Tech for Life Fair - Belfast
Mar 05, 2024
Voting Requirements; Smart Energy; Visual Snow
Feb 27, 2024
Blind Baseball and Morris Dancing
Feb 23, 2024
Mixmups
Feb 20, 2024
YouGov Poll on Employment
Feb 13, 2024
Blind baseball and morris dancing
Feb 06, 2024
Local sight loss charities; Doctor Who
Jan 30, 2024
Accessible smart meters, A blast from the past!
Jan 23, 2024
Representation in Parliament
Jan 16, 2024
Pavement Parking
Jan 09, 2024
The New CEO of Guide Dogs; Cars
Jan 02, 2024
The Blind Chocolatier
Dec 26, 2023
Christmas Time at New College Worcester
Dec 19, 2023
The Eyes Have It
Dec 12, 2023
Look UK's Mentoring Project
Dec 05, 2023
Scotland's Train Ticket Offices; Awards for Service
Nov 28, 2023
AbilityNet Tech Conference; Love on the Run
Nov 21, 2023
All The Light We Cannot See
Nov 15, 2023
How Accessible is X?
Nov 07, 2023
U-Turn on Rail Ticket Office Closures
Oct 31, 2023
Living Through War
Oct 25, 2023
Blinded in Ukraine; Forza Motorsport
Oct 17, 2023
Izabela in the Forest; Can Blind People do That?
Oct 10, 2023
Learning Languages
Oct 03, 2023
Inclusive Farm
Sep 26, 2023
Be My AI; Orla Guerin in Yemen
Sep 19, 2023
Guide Dogs Q&A
Sep 12, 2023
STEP Training with Guide Dogs
Sep 05, 2023
The IBSA World Games
Aug 29, 2023
A Treatment for Two Eye Diseases; Tactile Breast Examinations
Aug 22, 2023
RNIB Job Advert; Access to the Women's World Cup
Aug 15, 2023
Braille on Food Labelling; Disability Policy at the White House
Aug 08, 2023
A Successful Judicial Review; Renting with a Guide Dog
Aug 01, 2023
Delays in accessing essential services
Jul 25, 2023
Books on Blindness
Jul 18, 2023
Tennis
Jul 11, 2023
A Near-Fatal Train Accident; Music Producer Robin Millar
Jul 04, 2023
The Support Hub; The RNIB's Helpline Services
Jun 27, 2023
Blind Adventurers
Jun 20, 2023
A Transport Special
Jun 13, 2023
Holidays
May 30, 2023
Attitudes and Service
May 23, 2023
C'mon, Vogue; Haben Girma on The British Museum
May 16, 2023
Energy Account Health; Flying with Your Guide Dog
May 09, 2023
A Tactile Coronation; Clay Modelling
May 02, 2023
Accessibility in Video Games
Apr 25, 2023
TV Advertising; Commercial Usage of Artificial Intelligence
Apr 18, 2023
Artificial Intelligence; European Blind Football League
Apr 11, 2023
Technology Training and Rehab Services; You Heard It Here First
Apr 04, 2023
Has the World Become More or Less Challenging for Visually Impaired People?
Mar 28, 2023
NHS Backlogs and Avoidable Sight Loss; The CSUN Assistive Technology Conference
Mar 22, 2023
Tactile Paving Completions; An Extant Theatre Pantomime
Mar 14, 2023
The Protests in Iran; Audio Description on Adventure Films
Mar 07, 2023
A Guide Dog at Gatwick Airport; A New Travel Companion on Trains
Feb 28, 2023
Financial Aid for Ukraine; The Royal College of Ophthalmology on the Delivery of Medical News
Feb 21, 2023
Love and Relationships
Feb 14, 2023
The New Principal of New College Worcester, Smaller Guide Dog Organisations
Feb 07, 2023
Access to Work Backlog, Artist Clarke Reynolds
Jan 31, 2023
Guide Dog Waiting Lists; Blind Ice Hockey
Jan 24, 2023
Audiobooks
Jan 17, 2023
Accessible smart meters, Blind charity news
Jan 10, 2023
20 Year Reunion
Jan 03, 2023
The Entertainers
Dec 27, 2022
A Very Merry (In Touch) Christmas
Dec 20, 2022
The Eye Clinic Liaison Officer; Visually Impaired Netball
Dec 13, 2022
The Delivery of Medical News; Audio Described World Cup Commentary; Enhanced Smart Meters
Dec 06, 2022
What You're Entitled To; Access to BBC Sounds
Nov 29, 2022
Can You Prepare for Blindness?
Nov 22, 2022
Premier Inn guide dog refusal, Inaccessible cancer treatment information
Nov 15, 2022
England's First National Clinical Director for Eye Care; The UK's First Blind and Black Female Barrister
Nov 08, 2022
DWP High Court Case; The Esterman Visual Field Test for Driving
Nov 01, 2022
The Court Hearing About Access Services in Supermarkets; Parliamentary Eye Health Event; Swimming
Oct 27, 2022
Braille Books for Education; Aira Smart Glasses
Oct 19, 2022
Domestic Abuse
Oct 11, 2022
The Cost of Living Crisis; Discontinuation of Sonata
Oct 04, 2022
Pig Skin Corneas; My Sound Cinema; The Visual Dimension Project
Sep 28, 2022
Safety: On The Streets & Early Health Screenings
Sep 20, 2022
Access to Voting Consultation; Braille Book Swap Scheme
Sep 13, 2022
The RNIB's Braille Library
Sep 06, 2022
Women's football; Blind opera singer
Aug 30, 2022
Awareness on TikTok
Aug 23, 2022
Wine and Architecture Courses
Aug 16, 2022
A Gap in the Market, Para-cyclist Libby Clegg
Aug 09, 2022
Diabetic macular oedema treatment, The Commonwealth Games
Aug 02, 2022
Covid and Sight Loss; Retinitis Pigmentosa Research
Jul 26, 2022
The Cost of Living Crisis; Cornea Transplant Delays
Jul 19, 2022
Equality Act Amendments; Smart Lipstick
Jul 12, 2022
Rebuilding Ukraine; Tennis
Jul 05, 2022
Festivals; Visually Impaired Musicians Changing the Industry
Jun 28, 2022
Museums & Exhibitions
Jun 21, 2022
The New Elizabeth Line; Do You See What I See?
Jun 14, 2022
Birds & Gardening
Jun 07, 2022
Matchday Mayhem; The Great Outdoors
May 31, 2022
Barriers to Travel
May 24, 2022
Travelling
May 17, 2022
Self-Confidence
May 10, 2022
Guide Dog Refusals at Indoor Establishments; NaviLens
May 03, 2022
Elections Bill - The Final Decision; Accessible Opera
Apr 26, 2022
Ukrainian Stories from Poland
Apr 19, 2022
Wellness
Apr 12, 2022
Education - Proposed Improvements
Apr 05, 2022
Enhanced Audio Description; Strawberry Field Exhibition
Mar 30, 2022
European Blind Union on Ukraine, what3words
Mar 22, 2022
Book Share; Winter Paralympics 2022
Mar 16, 2022
Visually Impaired in Ukraine
Mar 16, 2022
Tactile Paving Updates; Accessible Lateral Flow Tests
Mar 01, 2022
Software & Technology Within the Workplace
Feb 22, 2022
Representation in Casualty; Should People Explain What They Look Like?
Feb 15, 2022
The Elections Bill; Hearing the Universe
Feb 08, 2022
Highway Code Changes; Young Animator
Feb 01, 2022
Retinal Vein Occlusion; Reading the Room
Jan 25, 2022
Drag Queens and Kings
Jan 18, 2022
Audiobooks
Jan 12, 2022
The Lives of Youngsters
Jan 04, 2022
Former British Army Soldier; then and now.
Dec 28, 2021
In Touch at Christmas
Dec 21, 2021
Citizenship; Tactile Art Exhibition
Dec 14, 2021
Accessibility at Further Education Colleges; Guide Dog Retirement Age
Dec 07, 2021
National Clinical Director for Eye Care; Two Mayors, Same Household
Nov 30, 2021
Your Questions Answered
Nov 23, 2021
Gender Identity
Nov 17, 2021
Touch Screen Card Machines; Your Emails
Nov 11, 2021
It's All About The Music!
Nov 02, 2021
Channel 4's Audio Description Problems; Combining Sustainability and Inclusion
Oct 26, 2021
Social Care
Oct 19, 2021
It's our 60th Birthday!
Oct 12, 2021
Banks and ATMs; Assistive Tech for Work
Oct 05, 2021
AI Macular Degeneration Detection; New Money For Blind Sport
Sep 28, 2021
The Return to University
Sep 21, 2021
Ofcom on Audio Description; Audio Only Video Games
Sep 14, 2021
Social Media Special
Sep 07, 2021
Gold! At The Tokyo Paralympics; Gyms Doing Good Things
Aug 31, 2021
Paralympic Games; The Art of Blind Photography
Aug 25, 2021
Disability Strategy and Employment
Aug 17, 2021
Audio Description; Goalball Classifications
Aug 10, 2021
Assistive Technology For Pupils; Comedian Jamie MacDonald
Aug 03, 2021
A Paralympics Special
Jul 27, 2021
Photo ID At Polling Stations; Network Rail On Tactile Paving
Jul 20, 2021
Tactile paving at train stations; Braille and assistive technology
Jul 13, 2021
Wheelie bins; Becoming a new parent
Jul 06, 2021
Further Education Support; Braille versus Assistive Technology
Jun 29, 2021
Isolation; Echolocation
Jun 22, 2021
Accessible Covid Testing; Working from Home
Jun 15, 2021
Lighting in the Home; E-scooters Pt 2
Jun 09, 2021
A Genetics Special
Jun 02, 2021
Electric Scooters; Fans Return to Stadia
May 25, 2021
A Technology Special
May 18, 2021
Voting; Extreme Sports
May 11, 2021
The Language of Disability
May 04, 2021
Applying for Jobs; Going out after Lockdown
Apr 27, 2021
Missed Appointments; Moving House
Apr 20, 2021
Habilitation Report; Blind Footballer
Apr 13, 2021
Guide Dog DNA; Blind Mountain Biker
Apr 06, 2021
A Transport Special - Buses and Trains; Audio Cookbooks
Mar 30, 2021
Accessible Covid Information; Amazon Fresh; Telephone Betting
Mar 23, 2021
Telephone Banking; TikTok Trolls
Mar 16, 2021
Braille library upgrade; Census 2021; Charles Bonnet Syndrome
Mar 09, 2021
Testing your vision at home with Moorfield Eye Hospital's app; More tips from writers
Mar 02, 2021
The Death Of Blind Rail User Cleveland Gervais
Feb 23, 2021
A Legal Battle Over The Accessibility Of Covid Information; The Helen Keller Doubters
Feb 16, 2021
Assisted Guidance On London Underground; Audio Description For On-Demand TV
Feb 09, 2021
Covid Vaccination Experiences and RNIB London Move
Feb 02, 2021
Covid Testing & Vaccinations: What You Need To Know
Jan 26, 2021
It's All About The Apps
Jan 19, 2021
The New "Passenger Assist" App For Rail Users; Royal Art Works On Show
Jan 12, 2021
A Paralympics Special
Dec 29, 2020
A Writers' Special
Dec 22, 2020
The RNIB's New Chair Of Trustees Anna Tylor
Dec 15, 2020
Accessible Town Centres; A New Guide Dog During The Pandemic
Dec 08, 2020
Tactile Paving on Railway Platforms; Heading Home from University for Christmas
Dec 01, 2020
Freeview Play's New Accessible TV Guide; Calls to Save the RNIB's Giant Print Library
Nov 24, 2020
Covid Restrictions: Care Homes And London Underground
Nov 17, 2020
The RNIB Closes Its Giant Print Library; The Disordered Eye On The BBC iPlayer
Nov 12, 2020
Voting In Elections
Nov 03, 2020
Futsal Star Steve Daley; Blind Actors in TV Ads
Oct 27, 2020
Dry AMD; Mona Minkara On Her Global Public Transport Experiences
Oct 20, 2020
Audio Described Theatre Performances; World Record Runner Sinead Kane
Oct 13, 2020
How The Biggest Blind Charities Should Focus Their Efforts; Baluji Shrivastav At 70
Oct 06, 2020
University Special
Sep 29, 2020
Glaucoma Treatments; Driverless Cars
Sep 22, 2020
Fight For Sight Report; England's First Blind Musical Therapist
Sep 15, 2020
Paralympic Legend Tim Reddish On The Delayed 2020 Games; Who Were Japan's Goze Performers?
Sep 08, 2020
Back To School, Safer Travel On Public Transport
Sep 01, 2020
Drug Supplies After The Brexit Transition Period Ends; A Photographic Record Of Blind People During Italy's Lockdown
Aug 25, 2020
Heading Back To Work; "Blindness" At London's Donmar Warehouse
Aug 18, 2020
Blind charities battle back after lockdown; Her Abilities Award
Aug 11, 2020
Virtual pubs, robot guide dogs and face masks
Aug 04, 2020
Paraclimbing and Cooking
Jul 28, 2020
Dog passports and online dating
Jul 21, 2020
David Rathband and Moorfields Video Consultations
Jul 14, 2020
E-scooters, audio description and gaming
Jul 07, 2020
RNIB failings and Lord Blunkett
Jun 30, 2020
The Impact of Lockdown
Jun 23, 2020
Supermarket shopping and education in lockdown
Jun 16, 2020
Music Lessons, Votes, Concessions
Jun 09, 2020
Guide Dogs and Guide Runners
Jun 02, 2020
Home Schooling and Sirine Jahangir
May 26, 2020
Social distancing
May 19, 2020
Uber, Eye Treatment and Lockdown Fitness
May 12, 2020
Lockdown Shopping Update and Keeping Fit
May 05, 2020
Urgent Eye Care in Wales and John Slade
Apr 28, 2020
21/04/2020
Apr 21, 2020
Pressure on sight loss charities; Using video conferencing when you're visually impaired
Apr 14, 2020
Shopping during lockdown and Braille library closure
Apr 07, 2020
Coronavirus and Blind Isolation
Mar 31, 2020
Job Prospects
Mar 31, 2020
Coronavirus and Pavement Parking
Mar 17, 2020
Schizophrenia and blindness, Hester Poole, and Nicholas Saunderson
Mar 10, 2020
Blind stand-up comedy, accessible apps and a study about touch
Mar 03, 2020
Accessible transport, macular disease and would you want your sight restored?
Feb 25, 2020
Gene therapy on the NHS, The RNIB Reading Service, Blind architecture
Feb 18, 2020
In Touch
Feb 11, 2020
Red Button Reprieve and Working Overseas When You're Blind
Feb 04, 2020
Sjogren's Syndrome and Blind Surfing
Jan 28, 2020
Talking Buses and A New Way To Read
Jan 21, 2020
Help On Your Doorstep?
Jan 14, 2020
Funding Research Into Blindness; Blind Physios
Jan 07, 2020
A ‘melodious’ New Year
Dec 31, 2019
A very ‘music’ Christmas
Dec 24, 2019
A Festive Farewell
Dec 18, 2019
Voting Advice, DJ Lucy Edwards and Doping
Dec 10, 2019
RNIB care home employee speaks out about sale
Dec 03, 2019
RNIB sells care homes and colleges
Nov 26, 2019
Love Stories
Nov 19, 2019
The man who helps actors 'blind up'
Nov 12, 2019
Textbook tangles and accessible elections
Nov 05, 2019
Can a volunteer sue a charity for discrimination?
Oct 29, 2019
What's on telly tonight?
Oct 22, 2019
Scotland bans parking on pavements
Oct 15, 2019
Finding a safe meal
Oct 08, 2019
Putting Your Face On
Sep 25, 2019
Tribunal finds eye surgeon put 'money before patients'
Sep 17, 2019
Two Visually Impaired Opera Singers
Sep 11, 2019
Lego’s ‘Accessible Instructions’ Pilot
Sep 03, 2019
The politics of power and blindness – part two
Aug 27, 2019
The politics of power and blindness - part one
Aug 20, 2019
Where's my pizza?
Aug 13, 2019
Access to Health Records and Accessible Fun
Aug 06, 2019
Smart Meters and Improving Access to Roads and Rail
Jul 30, 2019
A Corporate Call to Arms
Jul 23, 2019
What do emojis mean to blind people?
Jul 16, 2019
A blind Shakespearean debut
Jul 09, 2019
The new law giving sound to electric cars
Jul 02, 2019
Scottish Braille Press Stops Press
Jun 25, 2019
Saving lives and smoothing creases
Jun 18, 2019
Blind prisoners compensated for discrimination
Jun 11, 2019
Do visually impaired people have to be tidy?
Jun 04, 2019
Where have all the board games gone?
May 28, 2019
Exercising your right to vote… and to exercise
May 21, 2019
Why Do Sighted People Want To Tell Blind People’s Stories?
May 14, 2019
Tactile voting provision deemed 'unlawful'
May 07, 2019
A new method of training guide dogs
May 01, 2019
Three stories on accepting blindness
Apr 23, 2019
Who Can Read Your Mail?
Apr 16, 2019
Can blind people become architects?
Apr 09, 2019
Archery and Mountaineering
Apr 02, 2019
Delays to Access to Work; Guide dogs guide a visually impaired runner in half marathon
Mar 26, 2019
Trial of Driverless Vehicles
Mar 20, 2019
Campus Cuts at Blind College
Mar 12, 2019
Blind Man at the Forefront of Science
Mar 05, 2019
A new way of booking assistance on trains
Feb 27, 2019
Gene therapy aims to halt AMD
Feb 19, 2019
Attack on guide dog
Feb 13, 2019
Proposed changes to charity's housing scheme
Feb 05, 2019
RNIB Closure in Bristol
Jan 29, 2019
Medals for guide marathon runners
Jan 22, 2019
Dame Joan Plowright at Home
Jan 21, 2019
Is Helen Keller a 20th century icon?
Jan 15, 2019
Should fines be issued for inaccessible websites?
Jan 08, 2019
Books for the New Year
Jan 01, 2019
Life-changing Events
Dec 18, 2018
Calls for VAT-free Ebooks
Dec 11, 2018
Navigating University
Dec 04, 2018
The Newest Star of Doctor Who
Nov 27, 2018
A gap in support?
Nov 20, 2018
Blind Veterans Remember
Nov 13, 2018
The Future of Navigating Our Streets
Nov 06, 2018
Rubbish Recycling
Oct 30, 2018
School closure - the parents view, How to wow an audience with your public speaking
Sep 11, 2018
The RNIB announces it's closing a school after accusations it failed to safeguard pupils.
Sep 04, 2018
Partially Sighted Society and Lighting
Mar 13, 2018
Inaccessible white goods
Oct 03, 2017
Does it matter if your partner can see or not?
Aug 30, 2017
An experienced actor and a young poet talk about the impact of their visual impairment
Aug 23, 2017
Hearing the Solar Eclipse?
Aug 15, 2017
Sudden sight loss
Aug 08, 2017
Specialist travel and audio-described circus
Aug 01, 2017
Tech Advancements for Home and Away
Jul 25, 2017
Baking Blind and Moving house
Jul 11, 2017
Changing jobs, Washington State's blind governor
Jul 04, 2017
Why Can't I Sleep?
Jun 29, 2017
Retirement angst, Self-defence
Jun 20, 2017
New partially sighted MP Marsha De Cordova
Jun 13, 2017
Voting
Jun 06, 2017
Daniel and Michael Smith
May 30, 2017
Lovers not Carers
May 23, 2017
The Braille Legacy Musical, International Blind Tennis
May 17, 2017
Andrew Bastawrous, Bristol blind running club
May 09, 2017
RNIB library services, Football commentary
Apr 18, 2017
Sitarist Baluji Shrivastav OBE and Corinna Bauer, Harvard research
Apr 11, 2017
Acting CEO of Guide Dogs interview and the future of Pingo the guide dog
Apr 04, 2017
Stem cell research and AMD
Mar 21, 2017
Job-seeking discrimination and accessible gyms
Mar 14, 2017
Benefits for visually impaired children, New scheme for journalists with disabilities
Mar 07, 2017
Blind man mistakenly tasered. Returning a Guide Dog
Feb 28, 2017
Dr Tanvir Bush, Gough, Gary O'Donoghue on Tim Gebbels
Feb 21, 2017
RNIB's acting head on the charity's future plans
Feb 15, 2017
Leadership at GDBA and RNIB, Personal safety
Feb 07, 2017
NHS England Information Standards; guide dog owner sues taxi driver
Jan 31, 2017
Employment statistics and a chance to feed into the green paper on Work, Health & Disability
Jan 24, 2017
In Touch from Northern Ireland with Tom Walker
Jan 17, 2017
Canute Brailler and Amit Patel's camera-carrying guide dog
Jan 10, 2017
In Touch in Turkey and their first guide dog association
Jan 03, 2017
US report on employment for visually impaired people, Charles Bonnet in pictures
Dec 13, 2016
Access To Work, access to BBC online content and Red Szell
Dec 06, 2016
Look's 25th and blind mums
Nov 30, 2016
Mobile Phone Answering Service, Gary O'Donoghue
Nov 23, 2016
Guide dog waiting lists, Watches, Blind parenting
Nov 15, 2016
Richard Leaman to step down and Ffion Miles steps out
Nov 08, 2016
Fight For Sight and review of accessible speaker
Nov 01, 2016
Chief Executives Cathy Yelf, Macular Society and Neil Heslop, Leonard Cheshire Disability
Oct 25, 2016
Monica Vasconcelos, OrCam reading device
Oct 18, 2016
Guide dog owner refused hotel room - GDBA CEO Richard Leaman responds
Oct 11, 2016
Nicki Cockburn, Pips and Talking Loos
Oct 04, 2016
Action hotels update, TV licence concession, Comedian Chris McCausland
Sep 27, 2016
Peter White talks to Lesley-Anne Alexander, retiring CEO of RNIB
Sep 20, 2016
Paralympic Games; photo exhibition preview
Sep 06, 2016
New polymer £5, Special hotels closure threat
Aug 30, 2016
Peter White with news, views and information for people who are blind or partially sighted.
Aug 23, 2016
The watch using haptic technology to help you tell the time. Plus Paralympic swimmer Hannah Russell
Aug 16, 2016
RNIB's new film, Recording PIP interviews
Aug 09, 2016
Signing of the Marrakesh Treaty, Suggested summer reads
Jul 19, 2016
Glastonbury: Just how easy is it for us to join in?
Jun 28, 2016
Moving from primary to secondary school; Mark Hardie
Jun 21, 2016
Keeping Fit and Staying Active
May 31, 2016
150 years of New College Worcester, Guide dogs and Uber
Apr 26, 2016
How Hull is becoming easier for blind people, Susie Steiner
Apr 12, 2016
Central heating, Mike Lambert column
Oct 28, 2015