Walk on Water Media

Broadcast Work

As well as being a media relations specialist, Tom’s voice is also well-known to people who listen to BBC Radio 4 and to BBC Radio Lancashire.

Here are some examples of Tom’s broadcast work:

in this feature for the In Touch programme on BBC Radio 4, Tom Walker looks at an initiative to make science more accessible for visually impaired people. The piece starts off at the Daresbury Laboratory in Warrington with scientists using tactile and auditory adaptations to the Hadron Collider to demonstrate various scientific phenomena to two blind people.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b088b8df
—
One of the scientists standing next to the Tactile Particle Accelerator with children and other scientists in the background.
The RNIB has launched an initiative to make gyms more accessible. Tom Walker compiled this report for the In Touch programme on BBC Radio 4..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b088b8df
—

Tom presents a special edition of the In Touch programme from Northern Ireland.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b088b8df
—

Tom Walker presents the In Touch programme on BBC Radio 4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07lfkmd

—

Tom Walker interviewing former Burnley footballer, Willie Irvine, about a new walking football initiative in the town.
Tom Walker reports on the Paralympic Games from Rio de Janeiro with Peter White

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07tqpxz

—

Tom Walker interviews a guide dog owner about her problems with booking a hotel room

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07x19dn

—

Tom Walker pulls out some interesting surprises from the In Touch programme’s Christmas Stocking

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b085589g

Tom Walker Public Relations

Tom Walker produces and reports for the In Touch programme on life-changing events for two visually impaired people.

—

Tom Walker visits Northern Ireland to present a special edition of the In Touch Programme on BBC Radio 4

—

Tom Walker presents a special ‘out and about’ edition of In Touch on BBC Radio 4

—

Tom Walker reports from the Paralympic Games in Rio for In Touch on BBC Radio 4

—

Tom Walker goes to the House of Commons where he meets Marsha de Cordova MP and reports for In Touch on a day in the life of a busy parliamentarian

—

Tom Walker reports on an initiative to make science more accessible for visually impaired people for the In Touch Programme on BBC Radio 4

—

Tom Walker reports from the Cliffden Hotel in Teignmouth for In Touch on BBC Radio 4

—

Tom Walker reports from Poole in Dorset on Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s new ensemble made up of disabled people for In Touch on BBC Radio 4

—

Tom Walker speaks to a visually impaired man from Manchester about his problems with the Access to Work scheme for the In Touch Programme on BBC Radio 4

—

Tom Walker reports on a project in Loughborough to improve the accessibility of gyms for visually impaired people for the In Touch Programme on BBC Radio 4

Contact Form

12 + 11 =

To find out more about how WowPR can work with you, please email tomwalker951@gmail.com or phone 07843 443586.

Alternatively please fill out the contact form, and we will get back to you directly.

Tom Walker

Freelance BBC Reporter
Media Relations Manager
Tel 07843 443586
Tom Walker

Further reading: Links open in new window!

Tom Walker’s Strange Encounters and Other Stories blog

A selection of Tom Walker’s radio work and podcasts

Author Hamish Macgibbon’s Maverick Spy website, produced by Tom Walker

The In Touch Programme on BBC Radio 4 which Tom Walker contributes to on a regular basis

Anna Tylor’s Blind Truth blog

The Guardian Newspaper’s Blindness and Visual Impairment page

The Independent Newspaper’s Latest News on Blindness page

The Royal National Institute of Blind People’s website

Thomas Pocklington Trust’s website

The Look Team website – support for visually impaired young people and their families

The Visionary website – linking together charities in the visual impairment sector

DeafBlind UK – supporting people who have a hearing and visual impairment

Disability News Service – specialist coverage of issues affecting disabled people

Blind Veterans UK

If you would like us to include a link to your website, please send a brief description of your website, along with a link to the homepage to tomwalker951@gmail.com