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In Touch: The politics of power and blindness – part two

27/08/2019

The politics of power and blindness – part two

BBC Radio 4 - In Touch, The politics of power and blindness – part two

How do you manage your power when you are blind?

In this second episode our guests discuss getting lost, our own power as blind people and power as a form of loss or grieving.

This is the second episode of our series examining the times in our lives as blind people when we are faced with a loss of control and power entirely caused by our visual impairment. Both programmes look at ways of gathering yourself, restoring your dignity, suppressing that sense of powerlessness, and giving you back the control everyone needs to be functioning adults. Situations like feeling loss of control because of access, orientation and/or mobility.
Handing power over to someone else over something you need help doing. Our thanks to everybody we spoke to during researching these programmes.

Presenter: Peter White
Producer: Lee Kumutat

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