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RNIB Conversations

RNIB Connect Radio

RNIB Connect Radio is the UK radio station sharing stories of people living with sight loss. Listen to blind and partially sighted people talk about a wide range of topics of relevance to them and join the conversation yourself by emailing radio@rnib.org.uk Other great podcast channels from RNIB Connect Radio Connect - Our main channel with news, features and articles on sight loss. Read On - The Audiobook show all about accessible reading. Tech Talk - Technology for blind and partially sighted

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S1 Ep673: A Year in Lockdown, Jess Beal

RNIB Conversations ·

2021/03/22

A year on, we're looking back at how the coronavirus outbreak affected the lives of those living with a visual impairment. The challenges, the little blessings and how we and the world around us adapted to the new normal of everyday life. Connect Radio’s Toby Davey chats with Jess Beal who lives in South London with her husband who is also visually impaired. Jess has mainly had a positive experience of lockdown and is fortunate that she and her husband live in a London street with good

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S1 Ep671: A Year in Lockdown, Billy Hendren

RNIB Conversations ·

2021/03/22

A year on, we're looking back at how the coronavirus outbreak affected the lives of those living with a visual impairment. The challenges, the little blessings and how we and the world around us adapted to the new normal of everyday life. Connect Radio’s Toby Davey chats with Billy Hendren a young visually impaired adult from South Ayrshire about his year in lockdown, the highs, and lows for him. Billy tells Toby that his year in lockdown has been 50/50 for him, the negatives have been not

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7:25

S1 Ep672: A Year in Lockdown, Sally Rodrigues

RNIB Conversations ·

2021/03/22

A year on, we're looking back at how the coronavirus outbreak affected the lives of those living with a visual impairment. The challenges, the little blessings and how we and the world around us adapted to the new normal of everyday life. Connect Radio’s Toby Davey chats with Sally Rodrigues who is a blind complementary therapist from Bristol who had her first child Carina during lockdown arriving August 2020 about her year in lockdown, the highs, and the lows. As a new blind mum, for Sally one

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7:50

S1 Ep670: A Year in Lockdown, Sarah Lambert, RNIB...

RNIB Conversations ·

2021/03/22

Sarah Lambert RNIB Head of Social Change, shares her thoughts on the past year since the first UK lockdown and tells RNIB Connect Radio what RNIB will be doing in the near future, to make coming out of lockdown less challenging for RNIB customers. Photo is of RNIB Connect Radio logo.

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8:11

S1 Ep670: A Year In Lockdown, Mark Griffiths

RNIB Conversations ·

2021/03/22

Mark Griffiths was just getting to grip with blindness when lockdown started and the following twelve months were particuclary difficult time, although some good things have happened too. He has been sharing his story, with RNIB Connect Radio's Barry Snell. {image: 'RNIB' written in bold black letters, with the words 'See differently' written underneath. There is also a striking pink line underneath the RNIB logo. It's set against a white background}

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9:19

S1 Ep669: A Year In Lockdown, RNIB CEO Matt Stringer

RNIB Conversations ·

2021/03/19

RNIB Connect Radio's Allan Russell spoke to Matt Stringer, Chief Exec of UK sight loss charity RNIB, to look back at what a year of lockdown has meant for the charity and what the future holds within the new norm… #RNIBConnect Image: RNIB's Connect Radio logo

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5:37

S1 Ep663: Lockdowns, Long Covid and Should We Be...

RNIB Conversations ·

2021/03/19

RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey checked in with pharmacist Elizabeth Roddick from New Live Pharmacy in Glasgow to talk about whether the lifting of lockdown restrictions have had a noticeable effect in the number of respiratory infections, an outline of the differences between a cold and a flu and the flu and Coronavirus. A reminder of what Long Covid is and how it might affect some people who have the condition. What an oximeter is and how it can be used to help people who have Coronavirus. And

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5:42

S1 Ep668: VocalEyes - The Interval 19 March 2021

RNIB Conversations ·

2021/03/19

Since the first lockdown in March 2020 with many theatres going dark and many museums, galleries and heritage sites having to close their doors, VocalEyes the national audio description charity providing access to the arts for blind and partially sighted people started up a weekly email newsletter titled The Interval to share up-coming online accessible events for blind and partially sighted people. In this week’s VocalEyes - The Interval here on RNIB Connect Radio Toby Davey is joined again by

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7:59

S1 Ep667: A Year in Lockdown, Vivienne Wilkes

RNIB Conversations ·

2021/03/18

A year on, we're looking back at how the coronavirus outbreak affected the lives of those living with a visual impairment. The challenges, the little blessings and how we and the world around us adapted to the new normal of everyday life. Here, our Paulina Kuchorew chats with RNIB volunteer Vivienne Wilkes to find out how the last year of lockdown has been for her and how technology, volunteering and family helped her through it. To find out how you can support blind and partially sighted people

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5:10

S1 Ep666: A Year in Lockdown, Marion Lewis

RNIB Conversations ·

2021/03/18

Marion, from Borth, in Ceredigion, talks about her year in lockdown. Image is the RNIB Connect Radio logo.

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S1 Ep666: A Year in Lockdown, Pat Jones Jenkins

RNIB Conversations ·

2021/03/18

Pat, from Porthcawl, South Wales, talks about her year in lockdown. Image is of RNIB Connect Radio logo.

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7:27

S1 Ep665: A Year In Lockdown, Stuart Richards

RNIB Conversations ·

2021/03/18

Stuart Richards had planned to spend much of the last twelve months training for the race of his life… An epic fundraising challenge. Lockdown restrictions however meant he and fellow crew members had to drastically change their day to day training schedules. So how tough has that been, and what his overall experience of lockdown been like? Stuart’s been chatting to RNIB Connect Radio’s Barry Snell {image: 'RNIB' written in bold black letters, with the words 'See differently' written

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6:52

S1 Ep664: A Year In Lockdown Joe Kenny

RNIB Conversations ·

2021/03/17

RNIB Connect Radio's Allan Russell talks with Joe Kenny from Northern Ireland to find out what lockdown has been like for him, as a blind person, and what his hopes are for the future. #RNIBConnect Image: RNIB Connect Radio logo

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7:15

S1 Ep662: A Year In Lockdown Robert Meikle

RNIB Conversations ·

2021/03/17

Ellie speaks to City of Glasgow College student Robert Meikle about his experiences of doing a HND in Radio production, from home. Image: RNIB Connect Radio logo

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7:22

S1 Ep662: A Year In Lockdown Sylvia Paton

RNIB Conversations ·

2021/03/17

Another of our reflections on lockdown now, Ellie talks to Sylvia about her experience and what she'll be taking forward with her when lockdown ends… Image: RNIB Connect Radio logo

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8:39

S1 Ep662: A Year In Lockdown Usha Mistry

RNIB Conversations ·

2021/03/17

Ellie speak to Usha Mistry a partially sighted academic from the South Bank university about her experience of teaching through lockdown… Image: RNIB Connect Radio logo

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6:39

S1 Ep662: A Year In Lockdown Lorna Davies

RNIB Conversations ·

2021/03/17

Ellie talks to Lorna about her experience of losing her dad at the start of lockdown and being grateful for the family time lockdown created. Image: RNIB Connect Radio logo

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9:04

S1 Ep662: A Year In Lockdown Chloe Tear

RNIB Conversations ·

2021/03/17

Ellie talks to Chloe who shares her experiences of lockdown being at home with her family, and her worries for when lockdown ends… Image: RNIB Connect Radio logo

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6:58

S1 Ep661: A Year In Lockdown Dave Heeley

RNIB Conversations ·

2021/03/16

Blind Dave Heeley chats to RNIB Connect Radio's Barry Snell about how his life has changed since lockdown first began in March 20202. From being awarded an OBE to contracting Coronavirus it's certainly been a period of his life he will never forget. {image: 'RNIB' written in bold black letters, with the words 'See differently' written underneath. There is also a striking pink line underneath the RNIB logo. It's set against a white background}

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8:42

S1 Ep660: City of Threads Podcast

RNIB Conversations ·

2021/03/15

Rachel and Holly discuss the creation of their new Podcast, City of Threads, in which the listener is taken on an immersive journey through the streets of Bristol. Created by a team of both sighted and partially sighted creatives and based on the experiences of blind and partially sighted people. Available to listen on streaming services from 25th March 2021

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