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In Touch: Pig Skin Corneas; My Sound Cinema; The Visual Dimension Project

Pig Skin Corneas; My Sound Cinema; The Visual Dimension Project

BBC Radio 4 - In Touch, Pig Skin Corneas; My Sound Cinema; The Visual Dimension Project

Scientists in Sweden have developed human corneas out of pig skins.

Scientists in Sweden have developed human corneas out of a rather unusual material - pig skins. We assess if this could be a solution to the UK's shortages and long waiting lists.

Dr Peter Hampson is the Clinical Director of the Association of Optometrists and we invited him onto the program after hearing about a rather unusual cornea replacement method to come out of Sweden; scientists there have developed replacement human corneas out of pig skins. We ask Dr Hampson whether this could become a viable solution to tackling the UK's cornea shortage.

A Edinburgh based accessible technology company called Screen Language are soon to release a new streaming platform, strictly for audio described movies. It will launch on September 30th called My Sound Cinema. It aims to be a one stop shop for audio described films of a variety of genre. Elena Zini is Screen Language's founder and she gives us the details about their new platform. Kim Milward is visually impaired and a major film fan, we invited her to tell us and Elena whether My Sound Cinema is something that she would consider using.

And we sent producer Beth Hemmings to Leeds to listen in on a music performance by a group of visually impaired people who had been working with percussionist Mendi Mohinder Singh. The music was performed on some rather unorthodox instruments...

Presenter: Peter White
Producer: Beth Hemmings	 
Production Coordinator: Paul Holloway  
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