In Touch Episodes Episode guide
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Disability Discrimination
How do you go about challenging disability discrimination using the law?
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Travel and Tourism
How accessible is the Royal Yacht Britannia? Plus cruises and extreme travel.
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Alternatives to Card and Pin; Sight Loss and Motherhood
Alternatives to paying with a card and pin. Coping with sudden sight loss as a new mum.
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Simulating Blindness, Blind Darts, 'Be My Eyes' App
Can simulating blindness have a negative impact on attitudes? Peter White investigates.
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Voting campaigns - Young Author and Speaker Molly Watt
Making voting more accessible for visually impaired people; Molly Watt on Usher syndrome.
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Blind Acoustic Target Shooting, Ted Ellerton
Peter White talks to Ted Ellerton on living alone with blindness at the age of ninety.
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Access to Work, Gary O'Donoghue
An update on Access to Work with Liz Sayce and Gary O'Donoghue's new post in Washington.
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Rt Hon David Blunkett MP
Peter White talks to the Rt Hon David Blunkett MP about his plans for retirement.
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Blind Dating
Peter White is joined by Tony Shearman and Denise Leigh to talk about blind dating.
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TV Host Richard Osman
Pointless host Richard Osman joins Peter White and talks about his eye condition Nystagmus
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Verity Smith; Blind Cookery Course
Verity Smith, horsewoman, singer and author, joins Peter and Tom Walker on blind cooking.
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Paralympic skier Jade Etherington; Tony Shearman on dating
Paralympic skier Jade Etherington talks of her decision to retire.
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Macular disease drugs; Anti-TNF drugs
The Royal College of Ophthalmologists calls for Avastin to be reviewed for use in the eye.
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Pocklington Trust; DVD 'Living with Failing Sight'
Peter Corbett, CEO of the Thomas Pocklinton Trust, on the sale of one of their sites.
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Self-driving cars; Cities Unlocked trial
The first UK trials of self-drive cars, and the trial of navigation system Cities Unlocked
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Access to Work, White Cane Rage
The problems some blind workers face dealing with the government's Access to Work scheme.
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Audible pedestrian signals; Giles Abbott
Are audible pedestrian crossings on the decline? And Giles Abbott discusses his career.
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Blind People in Sierra Leone; 'Affordable' Braille; Accessible Pedestrian Signals
The increased Ebola risk for blind people in Sierra Leone; and more affordable Braille.
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Cricket; MSP Dennis Robertson; Specialist Care for Visually Impaired Elderly
All-women's blind cricket team goes on tour in Nepal.
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Finding a Way into the Arts
The careers of a sound artist, an assistant theatre director and a continuity announcer.
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Accessible Healthcare Information, Private Voting, Advice on Starting University
NHS England drafts a standard for accessible information, advice on starting university.
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RNIB audiobook download service; Braille labelling; Space Camp
New RNIB audiobook download service, Braille on packaging, space camp for blind children.
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Safe travel - Trialling at Tandem
What is safe travel, and who should decide? Plus a borrow-a-tandem scheme.
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Registration statistics; Making a plan; Feedback on audio description
Macular Society's Tony Rucinski and Dr Catey Bunce interpret HSCIC registration figures.
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Audio description; Arts access in Australia; Reunited after 50 years
Audio descripton is explained, and In Touch facilitates a reunion after 50 years.
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26/08/2014
Peter White talks to cookery author Elaine Bastable about coping with sight loss.
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Blind world land-speed record; Giving up driving
As a blind man breaks the 200mph record, Peter asks how hard is it to give up driving?
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Weight Control
Peter White is joined by Denise Leigh and Cindy Godfrey-Mckay to tackle weight control.
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Changes to blind people's lives since the first World War; Blind veterans
Dr Fred Reid and Robert Baker refect on changes to blind people's lives since Aug 4th 1914
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Conducting a Choir when Blind
Three blind musicians debut as conductors; and a blind businessman in the building trade.