In Touch - 05/01/2010

Peter White talks to actress and comedian Kitty McGeever about her life and the impact her relatively recent sight loss has had on her life. Kitty was the first blind actor to be cast as a permanent character in a UK soap, Emmerdale, which she is loving. She has also just been made guardian of her late best friend's 16-year-old daughter and is in in the midst of moving house. She demonstrates to Peter her CD book which has audible labels telling her which CD is which. She also uses a colour detector as she is very particular about her clothes and the gadget enables her to match her colours. Kitty also tells Peter that one of her favourite gadgets in the kitchen is a pair of long-armed heat-resistant oven gloves, to prevent her burning her hands. She says that unlike Bill Roache in Corrie, she probably wouldn't be in Emmerdale for 50 years as she would hate being told when she could have her hair cut.