Blindness and visual-impairment
- Attribution
- Posted23 February 2017
Too Many Helping Hands. Audio, 28 minutes
Peter White asks if blind children who go to mainstream schools get too much support.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Untold. The Blind Side. Audio, 28 minutes
Brandon is battling to make it into England's football team. Brandon is also blind.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Why Factor. Why I’m Not Just Blind. Audio, 18 minutes
Lee Kumutat asks why blind people must either be inspirational or deserving pity
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Batman and Ethan. Audio, 1 minute
Ethan, a 10-year-old blind boy and gifted musician, learns echolocation.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Essay. The Genius of Disability, The Genius of Disability: Al-Ma'arri - Visionary Free Thinker. Audio, 15 minutes
Tom Shakespeare discusses the blind tenth-century Arabian poet Al-Ma'arri.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Digital Human. Series 4, Adaptation. Audio, 30 minutes
Aleks explores how technology can give someone back a life that had seemed gone forever.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
One to One. Frank Gardner talks to Deborah Impiazzi. Audio, 15 minutes
Frank talks to Deborah Impiazzi, who lost her sight and with it, her job and her husband.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Mind Changers. Case Study: SB - The Man Who Was Disappointed with What He Saw. Audio, 30 minutes
The story of SB, who had his sight restored after over 50 years of blindness.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
All in the Mind. Carers - Ivan Lewis - In Touch With Art. Audio, 30 minutes
Dr Raj Persaud presents the series exploring developments in psychology and psychiatry.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Tales from the Stave. Series 1, Handel's Jephtha. Audio, 30 minutes
George Frideric Handel's last major choral work found him tormented by failing sight.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Being Different. Muhammad and Radha Alizai. Audio, 22 minutes
A love story. How a couple in Jordan came together in spite of them both being blind
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
African Perspective. Sierra Leone Choir. Audio, 31 minutes
Meet the children of the choir of the Milton Margai School for the Blind in Freetown
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
African Perspective. Trachoma in Africa. Audio, 29 minutes
The infectious eye disease which affects 500 million people and causes blindness
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
African Perspective. Hope and Light Institute. Audio, 29 minutes
The music school that teaches visually impaired girls in Cairo
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Science View. Blind Experiments. Audio, 4 minutes
Bias in experimentation and the advantage of controlled experiments using blind conditions
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Spotlight. Audio Description. Audio, 4 minutes
Adding a commentary to a visual performance for the benefit of people who are blind
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Sir John Wilson. Audio, 40 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is campaigner on behalf of the blind - Sir John Wilson
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Scent of a Woman. Video, 148 minutes
College student Charlie Simms takes a job watching over a blind army veteran.
- AttributionBBC Two
- Available for 26 days
Desert Island Discs. Rt Hon David Blunkett MP. Audio, 40 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is Labour local government spokesman the Rt Hon David Blunkett MP
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year