The VIP Pod: The Visually Impaired People Podcast

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In the tenth episode of the second series, Warren and Emma talk to Bernie Reddington and her daughter, Abbie.

Bernie lives in Norwich and is a single mother of three. Mum and daughter Abbie, both visu…

In the ninth episode of the second series, Emma talks to Tony Giles.

Tony is totally blind and 80% deaf in both ears but is a writer and intrepid solo world traveller, having visited over 130 countrie…

In the eighth episode of the second series, Emma talks to David Clarke who joined the RNIB In 2018 as Director of Services. This has enabled him to combine his lived experience of sight loss with his…

In the seventh episode of the second series, Emma talks to Mandy Redvers-Rowe, who had many operations throughout her teenage years. Registered blind at 16, she went to an all-Girls school for the Bl…

In the sixth episode of the second series, Warren talks to comedian, actor and writer Georgie Morrell. In this episode we speak about how Georgie got into the entertainment industry, who her inspirat…

In the fifth episode of the second series, Emma talks to Chris Fisher who is a woodturner, has the very rare condition of Toxoplasmosis, aged 39. He went completely blind overnight – he tells us in h…

In the fourth episode of the second series, Emma talks to Paul Ryb who lost his central vision overnight in 2007 aged just 37, but amazingly 11 years later he won a World title for GB at the world's …

In the third episode of the second series, Emma talks to Benjamin Wilson who is a visually impaired actor, and is passionate about making theatre more accessible for the blind and visually impaired, …

In the second episode of the second series, Emma talks to Joey Stuckey who is an incredible blind guitarist, songwriter, singer, composer, producer, and radio and television personality. He lives in …

In the first episode of the second series, Warren talks to Dr Sarah Leiter who is a British Paralympian in the sport goalball, and has achieved her ambition of becoming a doctor, despite having a rar…

In the final episode of series one, Emma talks to Jesse Dufton who is a blind rock climber. He is the first blind person to lead climb the Old Man of Hoy, which is the focus of Alastair Lee’s multi a…

In this penultimate episode of series one, Emma talks to Gareth Davies who is from Cardiff and currently works for the RNIB. Gareth was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) at the age of 20 and i…

In this episode, Emma talks to Tiggi Trethowan who worked for years as a TV producer until recently she was diagnosed with an incurable eye condition which will lead eventually to total blindness. Em…

In this episode, Emma talks to Bee Price who has Charles Bonnet Syndrome. Bee is 87 years old and discusses growing up during World War 2 as well as working as a teacher during her life.

Bee talks abo…

In this episode, Emma talks to Abdullatif Ghazi who is originally from Kuwait and lost his sight at the age of 8. Abdul discusses his love of sport (in particular goalball) and how it played a huge p…

In this episode, Emma talks to Tom Skelton who is a visually impaired stand-up comedian. Tom discusses his career as a stand-up and how in 2009 he started to lose some of his sight due to a hereditar…

In this episode, Emma talks to Stacy Scott who works for the RNIB. Stacy was born blind with a little useful vision and talks to Emma about growing up in South Africa before moving to Scotland. They …

Warning: this episode contains strong language and conversation around suicide.

In this episode, Emma talks to Darren Murinas who works for the Expert Citizens CIC charity and who was born with childh…

In this episode, Emma talks to writer, director and producer Adam Morse. Adam is an award-winning filmmaker from London who is also registered blind. Adam first emerged with critically acclaimed shor…