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In Touch: Heading Back To Work; "Blindness" At London's Donmar Warehouse

18/08/2020

Heading Back To Work; "Blindness" At London's Donmar Warehouse

BBC Radio 4 - In Touch, Heading Back To Work; "Blindness" At London's Donmar Warehouse

Peter White discusses the safest ways to return to work post-lockdown.

Lots of workplaces are very different now with social distancing. So how easy is to to return to work when you're blind?
We review "Blindness" at London's Donmar Warehouse.

We look at the challenges facing people who are blind or visually impaired when they return to work for the first time since lockdown. We'll get advice from Maria Shinn. She's from ACAS which gives employees and employers free, impartial advice on workplace rights, rules and best practice. 
And our reporter Fern Lulham heads to London's Donmar Warehouse to check out a sound installation based on the novel "Blindness" by the Portuguese author José Saramago. Playwright Simon Stephens has adapted the book and Juliet Stevenson stars in the production which focuses on the the rise of a global pandemic.

Presenter: Peter White.
Producer: Mike Young.

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