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In Touch: Chen Guangcheng, Lynn Cox

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06/10/2015

Chen Guangcheng, Lynn Cox

BBC Radio 4 - In Touch, Chen Guangcheng, Lynn Cox

Activist Chen Guangcheng and artist Lynn Cox's accessible cards.

Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng talks about his life since leaving China for the safe haven of America. Artist Lynn Cox discusses her own business designing accessible cards.

Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese activist talks to Peter White about his life since escaping from China. He now lives in Washington, since being offered residencey by the United States.
Chen has written a book about his experiences and says the hardest part for him to write about was the abuse inflicted upon his mother and family during his imprisonment.
He says that he still feels he can make a difference to the lives of blind and disabled people in China, thanks to the internet. Guangcheng does envisage that he will be able to return to China at some stage in the future. Stephen Hallett provides the translation.

Plus artist Lynn Cox was frustrated by printed greetings cards she could neither read nor enjoy, so decided to create her own range of tactile and scented cards. She has some sighted help, but her art background informs her designs and helps her to achieve the movement and energy in the outlines of the subjects she is depicting.

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