Talking Vision - Vision Australia Radio
Talking Vision - Vision Australia Radio
Playlist by Talking Vision - Vision Australia RadioLet 'Talking Vision' be your national radio reference on blindness and low vision. On this weekly radio program presented by Sam Colley, you’ll hear discussions of issues relating to blindness and low…Follow the podcast:
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Talking Vision 725 Week Beginning 22nd of April 2024
Coming up on May 9 the Department of Transport and Planning is holding a Try Before You Ride event at Southern Cross station in Melourne, and Sam caught up with customer relations and disability advocate Fiona Demark to find out all about it. Later on the show this week we celebrate International …
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Talking Vision 724 Week Beginning 15th of April 2024
The Reading Writing Hotline recently turned 30 and to celebrate Sam is joined by the manager of the Hotline, Vanessa Iles. Vanessa tells us all about the work the Hotline has been doing over the past 30 years, and the ways in which they have helped members of the blind and low vision community to …
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Talking Vision 723 Week Beginning 8th of April 2024
We head over to Adelaide this week to speak with Sam Rickard and Lizzie Eastham from Studio 1 on Vision Australia Radio Adelaide, as they tell us all about how they're going on their 100K Your Way challenge over the month of April. Later in the show Frances is back with a Reader Recommended, and w…
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Talking Vision 722 Week Beginning 1st of April 2024
Sam is joined by Vision Australia Radio Perth volunteer Kate Leaversuch, who is taking part in the 100K Your Way challenge over the month of April to raise funds for Vision Australia Radio. Then later on this week Stella catches up with Telelink coordinator Maria Markou who gives us some updates o…
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Talking Vision 721 Week Beginning 25th of March 2024
Sam is joined by William Chen, developer of the Theia mobile healthcare app which brings Covid RAT tests to users who are blind or have low vision, in a way they can access the information and results they need in a way that's safe, private and independent. We'll also hear from Steph from the Comm…
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Talking Vision 720 Week Beginning 18th of March 2024
This week features the second of our interviews with paraclimbers heading to the IFSC World Cups starting in May in Salt Lake City. Sam catches up with Jason Whiter, a climber with very low vision in his right eye who joined the show alongside his coach and sighted guide Ben Dalby. Later on in the…
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Talking Vision 719 Week Beginning 11th of March 2024
Sam speaks to Sarah Larcombe from the Australian Paraclimbing team, as part of a two part series featuring paraclimbers from the team before they head to the IFSC Paraclimbing World Cups in Salt Lake City in May. We also hear from Vision Australia's business lead for home care packages, Meghan Hir…
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Talking Vision 718 Week Beginning 4th of March 2024
Sam is joined by Antony Rako, a singer with very low vision who also writes, produces, mixes and promotes his own songs by himself under the name Tony Lowkey. After we hear from Antony, Vision Australia manager of audio description services Michael Ward is back on the show to tell us all about the…
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Talking Vision 717 Week Beginning 26th of February 2024
The Trek for Vision is under way in just over a week's time and heading over to New Zealand for the week is Vision Australia Parramatta's Karen Pritchard, who is out to prove that blindness or low vision is no obstacle to tackling hiking trails in Australia or around the world. We also head back t…
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Talking Vision 716 Week Beginning 19th of February 2024
The Variety Braille Music Camp is coming up in April, and to tell us more about it Sam is joined by camp organiser Lee Strickland whose business, Dotted Beats, has partnered with Variety in Queensland to help bring the camp to life. You'll also hear from the Happy Pants team in Perth, they're seek…
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