In Touch
News, views and information for people who are blind or partially sighted
In Touch - 01/01/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 01/04/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 01/05/2007
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 01/06/2010
Mani Djazmi meets the Thirve gardeners who excelled with their plants for the Chelsea Flower Show and Richard Lane meets cook Ann Scroggie who reveals the mystery of Scroggie Pie.
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In Touch - 01/07/2008
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In Touch - 01/09/2009
BBC iPlayer now carries audio-described programmes. The man in charge tells us how it works and who chooses which programmes get the treatment.
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In Touch - 01/12/2009
Confusion over airlines charging for assistance dogs and latest on Braille capitalisation.
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In Touch - 02/02/2010
Peter White talks to David Cowdrey from the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association about the charity's campaign to get announcements on all our buses.
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In Touch - 02/03/2010
Lord Low on a recent amendment to the Equality Bill designed to strengthen blind people's access to printed info. How do wheelchair users indicate they are also visually impaired?
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In Touch - 02/06/2009
Is public transport getting better for blind and visually impaired people? Peter Barker, Professor of the Inclusive Environment at Reading University, talks to Peter White.
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In Touch - 02/09/2008
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In Touch - 02/10/2007
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In Touch - 02/11/2010
In Touch investigates the state of the nation's pavements and a panel of blind and visually impaired people ask why there are no national standards for street surfaces.
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In Touch - 02/12/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 03/02/2009
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 03/03/2009
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 03/04/2007
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 03/06/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 03/07/2007
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In Touch - 03/08/2010
Peter White looks at why hotels across the country are still refusing bookings from guide dog owners despite this being against the law, and we put the new iPad through its paces.
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In Touch - 03/11/2009
Why is the experience of getting about on your own an increasingly mixed picture? We look at how easy it is to get travel assistance appropriate to your disability.
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In Touch - 04/03/2008
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In Touch - 04/05/2010
Tributes are paid to Torsten Brand, who devised the first access technology for mobile phones, enabling blind people to use them. Advice is on hand for voting on Thursday.
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In Touch - 04/08/2009
Peter White and guests review audio books of the latest Ruth Rendell, a biography of a house and garden and the story of an extraordinary blind traveller.
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In Touch - 04/09/2007
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 04/11/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 04/12/2007
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In Touch - 05/01/2010
Peter White talks to Kitty McGeever, who was the first blind actress to be cast in a UK soap. Kitty talks of the role she had in developing her Emmerdale character Lizzie.
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In Touch - 05/02/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 05/05/2009
Peter White discusses audio versions of three history books with journalist Lee Kumutat and Vidar Hjardeng, head of diversity at ITV.
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In Touch - 05/06/2007
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 05/08/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 05/10/2010
Is regulation the only way of making bus travel fully accessible? The UK Transport Minister tells us why European regulation is not the solution.
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In Touch - 06/01/2009
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 06/02/2007
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 06/03/2007
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted. Followed by News.
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In Touch - 06/04/2010
Susannah Hancock feels she is being treated differently by a firm of solicitors who require her to have her signature witnessed by another solicitor.
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In Touch - 06/05/2008
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In Touch - 06/07/2010
Peter White goes to Harvard to take part in neuro-scientific research and has his brian scanned by Prof Alvaro Pascual-Leone, who looks at the way Peter's brain processes Braille.
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In Touch - 06/10/2009
We meet the visually-impaired people of Cumbria who are fighting to save a resource centre which they say has changed their lives.
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In Touch - 06/11/2007
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In Touch - 07/04/2009
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted. Listeners offer advice to Richard de Costobadie, who after many years has decided to carry a white cane.
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In Touch - 07/07/2009
Cath Burchill is the only blind woman to have circumnavigated the globe. So how did she, her partner and her motorbike, Bertha, cope with the travelling life?
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In Touch - 07/08/2007
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In Touch - 07/09/2010
Are children missing out on sight-saving eye tests? Plus smartphones for the visually impaired - a revolution in information technology or an expensive exercise in frustration?
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In Touch - 07/10/2008
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In Touch - 07/12/2010
Reaction to the government's public consultation on DLA reform. Why book worms in Stoke could face a restricted choice of reading and how music lovers get their "gleek" on.
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In Touch - 08/01/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 08/04/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 08/05/2007
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In Touch - 08/06/2010
Mani Djazmi presents his newsdesk, nine-year-old Alexia Sloane talks about her interest in languages and books and playwright Lloyd Peters talks about his forthcoming radio play.
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In Touch - 08/07/2008
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In Touch - 08/09/2009
What are the effects of reducing announcements at railway stations? Lots of travellers think there are too many, but many blind and partially-sighted people depend on them.
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In Touch - 08/12/2009
In Touch meets Bethlehem-based Rima Canawati, who has just won an international award for her work with blind people, and hears from the French-speaking microwave.
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In Touch - 09/02/2010
Blind cricket is being taken to New York and Action for Blind People defends its decision to close a resource centre in Carlisle.
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In Touch - 09/03/2010
Listener Tom Walker voices his concern that RNIB chair Kevin Carey has written an article saying that some blind people can take longer to do certain tasks than sighted peers.
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In Touch - 09/06/2009
Mani Djazmi sits in for Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted. Blind people get behind the microphone and make radio programmes at Redstone FM.
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In Touch - 09/09/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 09/10/2007
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 09/11/2010
In Touch investigates how the cut in the mobility component of the Disabled Living Allowance will affect deaf blind people in residential care.
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In Touch - 09/12/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 10/02/2009
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 10/03/2009
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 10/04/2007
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 10/06/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 10/07/2007
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 10/08/2010
In Touch goes to the Eisteddfod and hears the new Welsh Synthetic Voice Software. Plus listener reaction to last week's programme on the guide dog owners refused hotel bookings.
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In Touch - 10/11/2009
The departing chief executive of the Macular Disease Society discusses recent controversies and achievements, and the highs and lows of running the organisation.
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In Touch - 11/03/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 11/08/2009
Listeners' reactions to the reduction of specialist staff at the National Library Service for the Blind; we put your concerns about the survival of braille production to the RNIB.
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In Touch - 11/09/2007
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 11/11/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 11/12/2007
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 12/01/2010
Peter White talks to ex-army colonel Geoff Draper about plans for his role as principal at the Royal National College, and two guide dog owners discuss their audio diaries.
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In Touch - 12/02/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 12/05/2009
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted. Guests remember when they first started losing their vision and share practical tips with Peter.
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In Touch - 12/06/2007
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 12/08/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 12/10/2010
In Touch discusses what's on offer for blind students in further and higher education. Plus an innovative approach to teaching maths in Brazil.
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In Touch - 13/01/2009
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 13/02/2007
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 13/03/2007
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 13/04/2010
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted. He talks to the New York Governor David Paterson about the way his visual impairment affects his work.
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In Touch - 13/05/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 13/07/2010
Peter travels to Harvard to take part in neuro-scientific research, looking at the brain processes involved when blind people read Braille, led by Professor Alvaro Pascual Leone.
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In Touch - 13/10/2009
With unemployment around three million, how difficult is it to persuade an employer to give you a job if you're visually impaired? And have you ever been tempted to 'blind up'?
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In Touch - 13/11/2007
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In Touch - 14/04/2009
Peter White asks why blind people take part in extreme sport and activities. Elephant rider Caroline Casey and marathon runner Mark Pollock explain.
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In Touch - 14/07/2009
How close are we to a breakthrough in the treatment of age-related macular degeneration, after recent newspaper reports of a 'pioneering laser operation'?
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In Touch - 14/08/2007
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In Touch - 14/09/2010
With Peter White. How people with no light perception are using melatonin to get a good night's sleep. More on smart phones. And audio description in theatres.
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In Touch - 14/10/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 14/12/2010
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 15/01/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 15/04/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 15/05/2007
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 15/06/2010
Peter White talks to Richard Leaman, the new chief executive of the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, who explains how he intends to deliver GDBA's ten-year strategy.
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In Touch - 15/07/2008
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In Touch - 15/09/2009
What is the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association for? Can it provide mobility support, campaign, educate, and fund eye disease research? Its chief executive, Bridget Warr, responds.
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In Touch - 15/12/2009
A review of the Intel Reader, a new device to help visually-impaired people access printed material. Advice on getting a job and an update on some of the year's key stories.
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In Touch - 16/02/2010
The RNIB call on the government to strengthen the law to ensure blind people get medical information in the format they need. Blind skiers take to the slopes by following the beat.
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In Touch - 16/03/2010
Richard Lane issues a challenge to find other blind and partially-sighted cooks in a new series Can't See Will Cook. Richard shows Peter how to cook a blind-friendly risotto.
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In Touch - 16/06/2009
Can a camera connected to electrodes on the tongue really help blind people get around?
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In Touch - 16/09/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 16/10/2007
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In Touch - 16/11/2010
Transport Minister Norman Baker, CABE's Director of Public Space Sarah Gaventa and long-cane user Dick Groves discuss how decisions are made to make pavements accessible.
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In Touch - 16/12/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 17/02/2009
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 17/03/2009
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 17/04/2007
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 17/06/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 17/07/2007
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In Touch - 17/08/2010
Why a charity is making blind factory workers redundant. How the English football team are faring at the World Blind Football championships in Hereford.
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In Touch - 17/11/2009
Geoff Long withdrew £120 from his bank, but £170 was debited from his account. He thinks blind customers should be offered a witness to avoid possible errors or fraud.
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In Touch - 18/03/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 18/05/2010
New research indicates that people who have the eye condition Retinoblastoma may be cleverer than people without the condition. An update from the Thrive gardeners.
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In Touch - 18/08/2009
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted. Why blind cricket's world champions have been denied entry to the UK from Pakistan.
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In Touch - 18/09/2007
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 18/11/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 18/12/2007
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 19/01/2010
Peter White talks to Stephen Hallett and Cheryl Gabriel about non-visual photography. They ran a workshop with a group of blind radio journalists organised by charity PhotoVoice.
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In Touch - 19/02/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 19/05/2009
Peter White visits the Royal National College for the Blind at Hereford, which provides further and vocational education for visually-impaired students.
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In Touch - 19/06/2007
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 19/08/2008
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In Touch - 19/10/2010
In Touch tests out the talking bus stop pilot in Edinburgh, and the Thrive champion gardener, Jeremy Scott, lets us in on his secrets.
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In Touch - 20/01/2009
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 20/02/2007
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 20/03/2007
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 20/04/2010
Sarah Newman is visually-impaired and stranded in Tokyo due to volcanic ash. Ellen Bassani was raised as sighted and tells her story. Mani Djazmi on blind football.
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In Touch - 20/05/2008
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In Touch - 20/07/2010
Peter White asks Minister Ed Vaizey and the RNIB if changes to Audio Description are going far enough. And Mani Djazmi reviews the latest gizmos at the Sight Village exhibition.
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In Touch - 20/10/2009
With or without an agency; with or without assistive technology? Answers to the big questions on securing job interviews and employment if you are blind or visually-impaired.
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In Touch - 20/11/2007
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 21/04/2009
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted. More on macular disease and stem cell technology. How close is a cure?
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In Touch - 21/07/2009
Reviewing some of the new technology at the Sight Village exhibition and testing a new labelling tool which promises to help avoid mixing up your coffee with your gravy browning.
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In Touch - 21/08/2007
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 21/09/2010
Vodafone respond to criticism that some users of their Wayfinder Access software have been left out of pocket; the border guard who invented an alternative tactile reading system.
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In Touch - 21/10/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 21/12/2010
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 22/01/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 22/04/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 22/05/2007
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 22/06/2010
GDBA's Tom Pey tells Mani Djazmi that the charity has reached an agreement with Chelsea and Kensington Borough Council on the shared surface area in London's Exhibition Road.
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In Touch - 22/07/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 22/09/2009
Apple has worked to improve visual accessibility on the new iPhone, but how does the device, with its built-in screen reader and magnifier, fare in our test of user-friendliness?
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In Touch - 22/12/2009
Peter White, Richard Lane and Lee Kumutat each pick a favourite audio book: James Ruddick's Death at the Priory, Tim Winton's Dirt Music and Lynne Truss's Get Her Off the Pitch.
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In Touch - 23/02/2010
Peter White reports that despite NHS guidelines many blind and partially-sighted people aren't offered accessible medical information. Plus advice on an alternative form of make-up.
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In Touch - 23/03/2010
With Wayfinder Access set to disappear, Mani Djazmi investigates the implications for visually impaired users and asks Vodafone for an explanation.
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In Touch - 23/06/2009
Richard, who is blind, and Rowena, whose eyesight is deteriorating, give tips on how to cope with issues such as what to do with your letters and how to check what you're wearing.
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In Touch - 23/09/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 23/10/2007
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 23/11/2010
Peter White talks to Sally Harvey, Group Director at RNIB, about the charity's plans to make redundancies within their Braille Transcription department.
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In Touch - 23/12/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 24/02/2009
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 24/03/2009
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 24/04/2007
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 24/06/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 24/07/2007
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 24/08/2010
Peter White discusses mobile phone problems, and Mani Djazmi visits the blind World Golf Championships in Northamptonshire.
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In Touch - 24/11/2009
Naj and Mark Fraser are visually impaired physiotherapists in flood-hit Cockermouth and for two days, they have had no electricity and have been forced to live in one room.
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In Touch - 25/03/2008
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In Touch - 25/05/2010
Leonie Watson and Ian Macrae try out the Internet Archive which has launched a new service for blind people using the DAISY format to enable blind people to access material.
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In Touch - 25/08/2009
Most national newspapers and many magazines are made available in accessible formats by the organisation National Talking Newspapers and Magazines, but is the business sustainable?
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In Touch - 25/09/2007
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 25/11/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 25/12/2007
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 26/01/2010
Peter White is joined by Diane Roworth from York Blind and Partially-Sighted Society and guide dog owner Richard Lane, to give advice and information to newly blind people.
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In Touch - 26/02/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 26/05/2009
Peter White hears fears about the effects on blind and visually impaired children of the abolition of the Learning and Skills Council.
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In Touch - 26/06/2007
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In Touch - 26/08/2008
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In Touch - 26/10/2010
Jill Allen-King tells Peter White about her new autobiography, Just Jill, in which she talks about her life as a campaigner for blind people and the twists and turns it has taken.
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In Touch - 27/01/2009
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In Touch - 27/02/2007
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In Touch - 27/03/2007
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In Touch - 27/04/2010
A special election edition in which representatives from Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats answer your questions.
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In Touch - 27/05/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 27/07/2010
In the latest Can't See, Will Cook series, Richard Lane cooks a Thai chicken curry. Presenter Mani Djazmi finds out the latest news about Wayfinder Access.
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In Touch - 27/10/2009
What are the implications of the postal strike for visually impaired people? And could you be suffering from 'learned helplessness'?
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In Touch - 27/11/2007
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In Touch - 28/04/2009
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted. Actress Kitty McGeever tells Peter what it is like to join the cast of Emmerdale.
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In Touch - 28/07/2009
Job losses among some staff at the National Library Service for the Blind have caused concern about the future of braille production. Will automated translation do the job as well?
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In Touch - 28/08/2007
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In Touch - 28/10/2008
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In Touch - 28/12/2010
Peter White with news and information for blind and partially sighted people.
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In Touch - 29/01/2008
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 29/04/2008
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In Touch - 29/05/2007
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In Touch - 29/06/2010
Mani Djazmi presents and seeks advice from Richard Lane, who enjoys his tandem, Emma Tracey, who walks with her guide dog, and gym-fan Tony Shearman, on how they keep fit.
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In Touch - 29/07/2008
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In Touch - 29/09/2009
Meet the first blind contestant on Australia's Dancing with the Stars, and what level of support can you expect from the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association at home and abroad?
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In Touch - 29/12/2009
Peter White meets The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire and talks to her about the impact macular degeneration is having on her life. She also recalls the time she took tea with Hitler.
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In Touch - 30/03/2010
Sense, which represents deafblind people, has been running workshops to train MPs how best to make the election process acccessible for deafblind voters.
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In Touch - 30/06/2009
It is a statutory requirement that deafblind people receive support to communicate and socialise, so why are so many local authorities failing to identify their needs?
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In Touch - 30/09/2008
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In Touch - 30/10/2007
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In Touch - 30/11/2010
Leonie Watson reviews Fix the Web, an initiative for blind web users to report inaccessible websites, Tony Shearman cooks with blind chefs, and a new GPS app is tested.
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In Touch - 30/12/2008
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In Touch - 31/03/2009
With Peter White. In Touch debates definitions, such as when is a book not a book? We reflect on the row in America about whether e-books contravene its copyright laws.
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In Touch - 31/07/2007
Peter White with news and information for the blind and partially sighted.
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In Touch - 31/08/2010
Marilee Talkington performs her one woman show "Truce" in San Francisco and discusses its exploration of blindness with Peter White.
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In Touch - Changes to Incapacity Benefit and the launch of 'Wylie' cards
RNIB's Dan Scorer tells Peter of the charity's concerns over imminent changes to Incapacity Benefit. And the little card which answers the question 'what can you see'?
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In Touch - Disability Living Allowance and the coalition
How will the coalition honour a pledge to increase Disability Living Allowance for those with the severest forms of blindness? Can't See, Will Cook travels to Altrincham.
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In Touch - Parents fight for taxi for blind daughter and OBE's for two In Touch regulars
Richard Sloane explains why he thinks his local authority should pay to transport his gifted, blind daughter to school. Plus feedback to Peter's interview with PC David Rathband.
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In Touch - PC David Rathband, Programme 2
PC David Rathband was blinded as a result of a shooting and shares his experiences with Peter White. David makes a cup of tea with limited success using a liquid level indicator.
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In Touch - Solo Travel
Author and veteran Tony Giles chats to Peter White about his forthcoming trip to Antarctica. He shares his experiences with fellow blind traveller Kirsten Hearn.
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