Glasses
Sliced Bread. Contact Lenses. Audio, 30 minutes
Which contact lenses are best for your eyes - and the planet?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted23 August 2023
All Consuming. Glasses. Audio, 25 minutes
Charlotte Stavrou and Amit Katwala peer into the world of glasses.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Business Daily. How wearing glasses can improve the economy. Audio, 18 minutes
A simple solution which improves literacy, job prospects, and keep families safe.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Sliced Bread. Toast - Google Glass. Audio, 26 minutes
Big ideas which promised consumers so much but ended up...Toast. This week - Google Glass
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Sliced Bread. Sunglasses. Audio, 25 minutes
Are expensive sunglasses worth it?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted14 March 2022
- Attribution
- Posted9 March 2022
- Attribution
- Posted9 March 2022
- Attribution
- Posted8 February 2022
- Attribution
- Posted29 November 2021
The Forum. A focus on spectacles. Audio, 40 minutes
Looking at the history of an invention many of us take for granted
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted20 August 2021
- Attribution
- Posted19 July 2021
- Attribution
- Posted16 June 2021
- Attribution
- Posted7 June 2021
- Attribution
- Posted7 June 2021
- Attribution
- Posted11 January 2021
- Attribution
- Posted5 July 2020
Things That Made the Modern Economy. Series 2, Glasses. Audio, 14 minutes
How many people on earth need glasses and don’t have them? An eye-popping 2.5 billion.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Unavailable
50 Things That Made the Modern Economy. Glasses. Audio, 10 minutes
A vital aid for many, but billions don't know they need them
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Witness History. The daily disposable contact lens. Audio, 9 minutes
How the contact lens became cheap enough to throw away after a day
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
A Point of View. Mass Myopia. Audio, 10 minutes
Will Self on the drawbacks of perfect vision.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Listener, They Wore It, Federico Fellini's 8 1/2. Audio, 14 minutes
Stephen Bayley celebrates some timeless eyewear, carried off brilliantly in a famous film.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
