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Blind dating; V&A music hall exhibition

Mani Djazmi is joined by Paula Page and Angus Huntley, who talk about dating when you're blind. Peter White goes to the V&A's enhanced exhibition on the Music Hall.

Mani Djazmi presents this week and looks at dating and museum visits from a blind perspective.

Angus Huntley and Paula Page are both blind and talk about their experiences of dating both sighted and other blind people.

Mani reveals his own experience of going on a date in a museum, which leads us nicely into the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, where Peter White joins a specially-enhanced tour of an exhibition on lost history of the music hall, 'Music Hall: Sickert and the Three Graces'.

The curator Kate Bailey explains some of the additional features she's added for blind people to help them better enjoy the exhibition such as a scented experience, where the smell of oranges becomes evident. Visitors are also asked to feel replicas of the hooped skirts which female performers would have worn on stage. Peter meets other VIPs on the tour and one even sings for him!

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Tue 10 Dec 2013 20:40

Music Hall: Sickert and the Three Graces

Music Hall: Sickert and the Three Graces
The exhibition on the lost history of the music hall, ' is at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), until the 5 January 2014.听It is open from 10.00-17.30 every day apart from the 24th, 25th and 26th December.

The Victoria and Albert Museum is on Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL. There are directions on how to get there on the .听

The picture is聽The Old Bedford by W.R. Sicker. 1915 -16. Copyright Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

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  • Tue 10 Dec 2013 20:40

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