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In Touch: Paralympic Legend Tim Reddish On The Delayed 2020 Games; Who Were Japan's Goze Performers?

08/09/2020

Paralympic Legend Tim Reddish On The Delayed 2020 Games; Who Were Japan's Goze Performers?

BBC Radio 4 - In Touch, Paralympic Legend Tim Reddish On The Delayed 2020 Games; Who Were Japan's Goze Performers?

Paralympic legend Tim Reddish looks ahead to the rescheduled games one year from now.

Paralympic medal winner Tim Reddish discusses the impact of delaying the Tokyo games. And we hear about the visually impaired Japanese women who went on to become Goze performers.

Tim Reddish is visually impaired and won numerous swimming medals when he competed in three Paralympics . He's been National Performance Director for the Disability Swim Team and he's chaired the British Paralympic Association. He's currently a member of the International Paralympic Committee Governing Board. We hear from him about the impact of delaying the 2020 games in Tokyo for a year.
And we learn about the blind Japanese women who travelled their country as Goze musical performers. 
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