Why I’m Not Just Blind
Lee Kumutat examines why blindness comes to define the identity of people who have little or no sight. Why must blind people either be inspirational or deserving pity?
Lee Kumutat examines why blindness comes to define the identity of people who have little or no sight. And why is sight so highly prized by people who have it. She talks to people in Kingston Jamaica, Accra in Ghana, in Edinburgh Scotland and California in the US. She asks how they navigate a world which seems to see them in two ways. People who are blind it seems must either be inspirational or deserving pity. Or even both.
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- Fri 8 Apr 2016 21:32GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service except East and Southern Africa & News Internet
- Mon 11 Apr 2016 01:32GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Americas and the Caribbean
- Mon 11 Apr 2016 02:32GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Online, Europe and the Middle East & UK DAB/Freeview only
- Mon 11 Apr 2016 03:32GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service East Asia & South Asia only
- Mon 11 Apr 2016 04:32GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Australasia
- Mon 11 Apr 2016 06:32GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service East and Southern Africa & Europe and the Middle East only
- Mon 11 Apr 2016 14:32GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service except News Internet
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