That’ll be the Day – Parents SEND a message to government: Support disabled schoolchildren!
Tom Walker speaks to Rosa Gomez who’s originally from Barranquilla in Columbia, about her extraordinary life. After surviving an attempt on her life, Rosa lost her sight and sustained a number of other serious injuries.
That’ll be the Day – Tom travels to Tewksbury to speak to Art Shape about their refurbishment of Trinity Hall.
That’ll be the Day – From despair to making a massive difference. Lisa McCann
Tom talks to Santosh Ghosh about his recently published autobiography, Mind Your Language.
In this fairly festive podcast, Tom Walker chats to disabled poet and comedian, Shaun Fallows, about the challenges he faces in his daily life and while on stage.
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Interview with visually impaired-comedian-Chris McCausland.
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Interview with the visually impaired winner of the Voice 2013, Andrea Begley.
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Interview with former Yorkshire cricketer, Geoff Cope.
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Tom Walker presents an addition of the BBC Radio 4 programme, in Touch, from Northern Ireland.
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Tom Walker speaks to visually impaired presenter, content creator and author, Lucy Edwards.
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Interview with the visually impaired medium, Louise Eaton-Conway.
Blind date: Emma Wray who is fully sighted chose to go out with Alan who is visually impaired. This is their story
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Interview with visually impaired barrister, writer and cook, Penny Melville-Brown.
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Tom Walker speaks to visually impaired musician, Gary O’Connor.
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Interview with visually impaired writer, director and actor, Mandy Redbers-Rowe.
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Interview with visually impaired storyteller Giles-Abbott.
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Tom Walker speaks to visually impaired singer/song-writer, Joe Kenny.
London Underground ‘says no’. Visually impaired woman Louise Eaton tells Tom Walker about her difficulties when travelling by train from Manchester to Brighton during the lockdown.
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Tom Walker speaks to visually impaired actor and director, Anthony Gough.
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Tom Walker speaks to the visually impaired author, John Gingerich.
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Interview with visually impaired drag-queen Venetia Blind.
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Interview with visually impaired singer-songwriter Sean Harrington.
Political hopeful
Visually impaired woman Emily Brothers talks about the challenges of trying to get selected to run in the 2019 general election.
Footballer extraordinaire
Partially sighted footballer, Steve Daly, who has finally retired from international football, looks back at his 25-year career.
What do Blind People see in football?
Martin Conway who lives in Manchester is a self-confessed sports nut. Tom Walker caught up with Martin before an FC United of Manchester home game. Martin tells us about how he, as a totally blind person, can follow football matches.
Focus on Employment
The managing director of the St Helens-based Focus Employment Hub, John Perry, talks openly about his visual impairment and the advice and support services he is providing to people from a range of vulnerable groups.
Hamsters wearing duffel coats
Charles Bonnet syndrome is a little-understood phenomenon in which some people who are losing their sight experience hallucinations
Measuring up
This is a question many disabled people ask themselves! In this interview at the Liverpool Everyman Theatre just after finishing a performance of Measuring Up, Mandy RedversRowe gives us a compelling insight into her experiences as a visually impaired performer.
Making theatre accessible for disabled people
Tom Walker is taken on a tour of the Birmingham hippodrome and hears about the arrangements in place for disabled and visually impaired theatre-goers.
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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
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