Sheffield Talking News

In this episode, Alan, Sandra and Gloria are on holiday.They are staying in a caravan in north wales, run by an organisation called the north wales accessible caravans for the blind.They talk about the features of the caravan, how they found the camp site and access to the town and beach.watch out for the seagulls and the tide, do not get your feet wet, lots of sand to get in those places just where you do not want it.

In this Episode, Alan and Claire give an overview of various mobility aids from guide dogs to navigational apps.

In this episode Sadiya Wani guides us on a tour of Sheffield's own Pete McKee autobiographical art exhibition called "A boy with a leg named Brian". The exhibition is at Western park museum

Journalism students, Emily and Joe, are back in the studio and today, they’re talking about guide dogs! Joe asks Emily some of his burning questions about the do’s and don’ts of interacting with guide dogs. Emily, as a first-time guide dog owner to her golden retriever, Garth (who features in the background), shares her personal experiences of life with a guide dog.

In this episode, Claire Bland and Carol Adams chat about air fryers and Carol gives a demo of her talking air fryer from Cobolt Systems. Carol also shares some tips of how to cook various foods in the air fryer.

Today’s episode is a chatty one! Journalism students Emily Lamb and Joseph Murphy compare their experiences of starting university. Emily shares her insight as a visually impaired student, while Joe explains how he found university as someone who is fully sighted. Find out how their journeys compare and hear how you can make the most of uni life, whether your visually impaired or sighted.

George Williams is a visually impaired student at the University of Sheffield who has had a lifelong passion for playing sport, particularly football. In this episode George talks to fellow student, Jake Heasman – who is also visually impaired – about playing football with impaired vision, and how an encounter with a visually impaired England Futsal player got him into the England partially sighted Futsal squad. George says, when he is told he can’t do something he goes ahead and does it!

Today's episode of V.I.Pod has a distinctly horticultural flavour where Alan Thorpe talks to the appropriately named and accomplished gardener, Frank Gardener. Frank is visually impaired, but that doesn't interfere with his skills in nurturing plants. Frank describes a life in gardening as well as giving valuable hints and tips from his garden and potting shed. Lucy Wilcox then follows with a list of events happening in and around Sheffield throughout April.

In this edition V.I.Pod looks to the world of braille,particularly to the work of Sheffield Talking News’ Alan Thorpe who not only teaches braille but is the only certified repairer in the UK of the Perkins braille typewriter, the world’s most widely used braille machine. Here, we run an interview that our colleagues at Doncaster Talking Newspaper did with Alan just a few weeks ago where we learn of the continuing importance of braille, even in this digital age.

In this edition of V.I.Pod we join our visually impaired reporter, Alan Thorpe, at the Sheffield Royal Society for the Blind’s sensory garden in Graves Park. After a tour of the garden with Alan and Sheffield Talking News’s Kerry Moon, we hear from two of the movers and shakers behind the project. The podcast ends with a round up of many of the things happening in Sheffield in March, including warnings of travel disruption due to the Sheffield half marathon on 23rd.