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We've been educating ourselves on wines with blind teacher Richard Lane at London's WSET.

The Wine & Spirit Education Trust offer wine-tasting courses, and we paid a visit, after finding out that they have a visually impaired teacher, Richard Lane.

Who doesn't love a good glass of wine? Well, when we found out that the Wine & Spirit Education Trust in London have their first blind teacher Richard Lane, we thought we ought to go sit in on a class and get educated about the world of wine. We hear from Richard about his journey from being a student at WSET to becoming a wine educator there and we caught up with Harry Meade, who is himself blind, and one of Richard's pupils. We asked Harry how it fared having a visually impaired teacher. 

We rightly hear a lot about how we live in a highly visual world and part of that encompasses architecture and the built environment. Our reporter Fern Lulham paid a visit to a course called Architecture Beyond Sight at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. The aim of the course is to include visually impaired people within the design and making of architecture from the very beginning. Fern even tried her hand at using some of the large power tools available in the classroom...

Presenter: Peter White
Producer: Beth Hemmings
Production Coordinator: William Wolstenholme 

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