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In Touch: Blind Baseball and Morris Dancing

Blind Baseball and Morris Dancing

BBC Radio 4 - In Touch, Blind Baseball and Morris Dancing

Can blind people play baseball or be morris dancers? Of course they can!

Can blind people play baseball or be morris dancers? Of course they can! We learn how both activities have been made accessible by talking to some of those who take part.

Tonight's edition challenges any idea that there are limits to the ways in which visually impaired people can have fun!

Shiraz Cohan is the founder of the UK Blind Baseball Association.  He joins us with Lancashire Lions team mate Shoaib Nazir and Ray Clements from the Liverpool blind Trojans. They tell us how the sport has been adapted to make it accessible to blind and visually impaired people and what is being done to grow the number of UK teams.   

The UK Blind Baseball Association can be contacted by email at ukblindbaseball@gmail.com

So X sighted is the catchy name of what's thought to be the UK's only group of blind morris dancers. We speak to their Squire, Shirley Sheridan along with dancer Arnold Penney and band member Jean Fray.  They share the story of how they got started, how they learned their craft and what it means to them.

So X sighted can be contacted by email at soxmorris@gmail.com  

Presenter: Peter White
Producer: Fern Lulham
Production Coordinators: Liz Poole and Emma Smith

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