Seventy years ago this month the first St Dunstan's Home was opened to look after men who had been blinded at the front. The home was the idea of the publisher Sir Arthur Pearson, founder of the Daily
Express, and a blind man himself. He wanted to train men to overcome their blindness and return to as normal lives as were possible in his words: 'to learn to be blind'.
St Dunstan's has continued to train men and women blinded during service to their country, in the First World War, Second World War, Northern Ireland, and the Falklands Campaign, as well as in peacetime.
Presented by John Hosken Producer HELEN GILL