Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Blind BBC News chief North America correspondent who won the RTS Breaking News award for live coverage of the Trump assassination attempt.
On the island
Eight records
Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the GroundFavourite
A spiritual song that reaches into your soul.
The keepsakes
In conversation
Presenter asks
2:15How are you finding the hectic journalistic beat in American politics right now?
The pace of what is unfolding in the US and around the world is mind-boggling and mind-blowing.
Presenter asks
4:09You talk about journalism as a very good fit for blind people. Why?
You sort of have to learn to understand other people's reactions because they react differently to you as a disabled person.
Presenter asks
17:51What do you remember about your time at the boarding school for blind children?
I think I felt slightly like I was being punished for losing my sight a bit.
Presenter asks
44:12What are you proudest of in your career?
I'm proud of kind of staying the course actually because if you're a blind, I mean 70% of blind people of working age are out of work, don't have a job.
The book
The History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
I'm so glad I did philosophy at university. I was never very good at it, but it taught me a way of thinking that was a sort of lifelong gift.
The luxury
I just have to throw it from hand to hand. And if you've ever, I don't know if you've ever smelled a cricket ball, but the leather smell is lovely. And then the texture of the seam.
“Being blind is absolutely and undeniably a part of who I am, but it's not all of me.”
“I was so touched actually that she told me that, the courage to tell me that and trusted me enough to tell me that because I kind of I got it, you know.”
“I think I sort of understood that they were worried for me and I think you know I was obviously I must have been a bit anxious because I remember trying to run away from home a couple of times.”
“I do genuinely believe that. And so staying the course and being one of the lucky ones is something I'm proud of, of not having given up.”