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RNIB Connect

RNIB Connect Radio

RNIB Connect Radio is the UK radio station for blind and partially sighted people to find out what is happening in the community. You can also contribute and share your stories by emailing radio@rnib.org.uk. Get involved and join the conversation. Other great podcast channels from RNIB Connect Radio Conversations - Blind and partially sighted people speaking about a wide range of topics. Read On - The Audiobook show all about accessible reading. Tech Talk - Technology for blind and partially

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S2 Ep982: RNIB NI Tech Fair 2025 9 – AbilityNet

RNIB Connect ·

2025/02/27

RNIB Tech Fairs are a great way to get hands on with new technology and learn about services and equipment that can make a real impact on your everyday life. Hywel Davies caught up with the team at AbilityNet, who offer free technology support across the UK. You can find out more about AbilityNet on their website - A digital world accessible to all | AbilityNet

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S2 Ep982: RNIB NI Tech Fair 2025 8 – Pakflatt

RNIB Connect ·

2025/02/27

RNIB Tech Fairs are a great way to get hands on with new technology and learn about services and equipment that can make a real impact on your everyday life. Hywel Davies got the chance to speak to the team at Pakflatt, whose accessible voting solution aims to make elections more accessible for blind and partially sighted people.

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S2 Ep982: RNIB NI Tech Fair 2025 7 – Paula Beattie RNIB

RNIB Connect ·

2025/02/27

RNIB Tech Fairs are a great way to get hands on with new technology and learn about services and equipment that can make a real impact on your everyday life. Hywel Davies spoke to Paula Beattie, RNIB’s Policy and Campaigns Manager in Northern Ireland. You can find out more about RNIB's work in Northern Ireland on the RNIB website - Campaigning with RNIB Northern Ireland | RNIB

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S2 Ep976: Leigh Bowery! At Tate Modern

RNIB Connect ·

2025/02/27

The new ‘Leigh Bowery!’ Exhibition At Tate Modern celebrates the provocative and boundary-pushing career of one of the most fearless and original artists of the 20th century. In his short but extraordinary life, Leigh Bowery (1961-1994) forged a truly unique path. For the first time Tate Modern will bring together Bowery’s outlandish and dazzling costumes alongside painting, photography and videos to explore how he changed art, fashion and popular culture forever. Charting the journey of a young

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S2 Ep981: RNIB NI Tech Fair 2025 6 - Joe Kenny RNIB

RNIB Connect ·

2025/02/27

RNIB Tech Fairs are a great way to get hands on with new technology and learn about services and equipment that can make a real impact on your everyday life. Hywel Davies spoke to Joe Kenny, RNIB Northern Ireland PR and Communications Officer in the exhibition hall.

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S2 Ep981: RNIB NI Tech Fair 2025 5 - RNIB Tech Surgery

RNIB Connect ·

2025/02/27

RNIB Tech Fairs are a great way to get hands on with new technology and learn about services and equipment that can make a real impact on your everyday life. Hywel Davies visited the RNIB ‘Tech Surgery’ table and spoke with Stephen Davidson, RNIB Digital Skills Engagement and Events Officer.

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S2 Ep981: RNIB NI Tech Fair 2025 4 - Lisburn Outlook

RNIB Connect ·

2025/02/27

RNIB Tech Fairs are a great way to get hands on with new technology and learn about services and equipment that can make a real impact on your everyday life. Hywel Davies spoke to the team from ‘Lisburn Outlook’, a charity providing recreational activities for blind and partially sighted people in the local area. For more information on Lisburn Outlook, visit their website - Welcome to Lisburn Outlook, registered with the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland NIC103202

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S2 Ep980: RNIB Tech for Life Fair

RNIB Connect ·

2025/02/26

The RNIB Tech for Life Fair took place on Wednesday, 26th February 2025, and our Tech Talk host, Hywel Davies, attended. David Hogg interviewed Hywel live on the Afternoon Edition to find out more.

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S2 Ep979: RNIB NI Tech Fair 2025 3 – Mayor Of Lisburn

RNIB Connect ·

2025/02/26

RNIB Tech Fairs are a great way to get hands on with new technology and learn about services and equipment that can make a real impact on your everyday life. Hywel Davies spoke to Kurtis Dickson, Mayor of Lisburn, at the event.

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S2 Ep978: RNIB NI Tech Fair 2025 2 – TAG

RNIB Connect ·

2025/02/26

RNIB Tech Fairs are a great way to get hands on with new technology and learn about services and equipment that can make a real impact on your everyday life. Hywel Davies spoke to ‘TAG’ a grassroots group sharing their technology tips.

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S2 Ep978: RNIB NI Tech Fair 2025 1 – Robert Shilliday

RNIB Connect ·

2025/02/26

RNIB Tech Fairs are a great way to get hands on with new technology and learn about services and equipment that can make a real impact on your everyday life. Hywel Davies spoke to RNIB Country Director for Northern Ireland at this year’s Northern Ireland Tech Fair in Lisburn.

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S2 Ep977: RNIB Tech for Life Fair

RNIB Connect ·

2025/02/26

The RNIB Tech for Life Fair took place on Wednesday, 26th February 2025, and our Tech Talk host, Hywel Davies, attended. Allan Russell interviewed Hywel live on the Daily Connect to find out more.

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S2 Ep975: Can You Use Eye Drops Over Ramadan?

RNIB Connect ·

2025/02/26

Ramadan takes place from the 1st to the 30th of march this year, but can you continue to use Glaucoma eye drops if you’re fasting?To learn more, Amelia spoke to Danish Ashraf, a Glasgow-based optometrist representing the British Islamic Medical Association (BIMA), and Robyn Asprey, Development Manager (Outreach Services) from the Support Services team at Glaucoma UK. For more information about looking after your eyes during Ramadan, visit www.glaucoma.com/ramadan. For more information about

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Caoimhe O'Brien, Interview about Invisible Charlie.

RNIB Connect ·

2025/02/25

This is an interview with eight-year-old Caoimhe O'Brien about her short story called Invisible Charlie. The story features in a book called Green, Donk The Dinosaur, helping to raise funds for a local sight loss charity (Sight Matters) based on the Isle of Man. Sight Matters Website: https://www.sightmatters.im/ Image description: Image shows the RNIB Connect Radio logo. On a white background ‘RNIB’ written in bold black capital letters and underline with a bold pink line. Underneath the line:

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S2 Ep970: Lynne Livingstone shares two new books from...

RNIB Connect ·

2025/02/25

Lynne Livingstone from the RNIB Library shares two new books that have entered the library.For more information on the RNIB Library Service, visit: https://www.rnib.org.uk/living-with-sight-loss/independent-living/reading-and-books/talking-books/

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S2 Ep971: Hunted Applications

RNIB Connect ·

2025/02/25

Fancy yourself a skilled fugitive? Well, if you have someone with whom you can make a perfect duo, and Hubert has something for you.

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S2 Ep972: SeeAbility Appoints Two New Trustees With...

RNIB Connect ·

2025/02/25

SeeAbility is a charity supporting people with learning disabilities or autism, who may also have sight loss. In 2024, they recruited two new trustees in Michael Smith and Keith Valentine, both leading figures in the business and charity worlds who have lived experience of sight loss. Amelia spoke to Michael and Keith, alongside Nicholas Carson‑Ashurst, Digital Marketing Manager at SeeAbility, to share more about their new roles. Image shows the RNIB Connect Radio logo. On a white background

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S2 Ep973: The Benefits of the what3words Location App...

RNIB Connect ·

2025/02/24

Martin Ralfe who is blind is urging all visually impaired people to download the what3words app to their smartphones, following on from his experience of using the app to help direct the emergency services to a road accident where the car his Dad was driving him in came off the road and ended up in water. Martin goes back over the accident with RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey and how he is now encouraging all blind and partially sighted people to have the what3words app on their smartphones and

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S2 Ep972: Brett Devloo The Blind Kid Skatebarder

RNIB Connect ·

2025/02/24

Brett Devloo is a blind skateboarder from Canada, he tells Daivd Hogg about sight loss has shaped his Skateboarding and his initiative to get blind and partially sighted school children learning on iPads.

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S2 Ep969: Charity Chief Exec's Customer Update 22/02/25

RNIB Connect ·

2025/02/22

Each week, on RNIB Connect Radio we sit down with Matt Stringer, CEO of RNIB, to look at some of the big stories coming from the UK sight loss charity. This week Matt started by talking about the recent Vision Partnership meeting which he had chaired earlier in the week, news about different ways people are supporting the work of the RNIB and the great news that well-known influencer Lucy Edwards has just joined the RNIB as one of our visually impaired Ambassadors. If you, or someone you know,

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