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Magazine"Close your eyes and you will see what you have never seen before"
A one-line excerpt there from a book titled "What do the blind
actually do?". This refreshing look at the world around us is written
by a group of blind or almost-blind people. They open up their world to us
- their everyday lives, their impressions and feelings. The book alone is
proof of the fact that the life of a blind person can be incredibly rich
and that the blind have a great deal to offer the sighted majority. The
selection of essays, poems and drawings is playful as well as serious and
in many ways -an eye opener. This week's Magazine offers a short excerpt
from it and an interview with Pavla Francova, the young woman who
illustrated the book -although she has been totally blind since age
fifteen.
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Letter from PragueLearning a new word the hard way
I'd be very curious to know how many of you are familiar with the following
word: dioptre. Any ideas? Well, dioptre is the measure of the strength of
a lens, and whether you know the word may well depend on where you come
from. I myself had never heard it before I came to this country ten years
ago. In Ireland, where I come from, when you get a pair of glasses they
just give you your glasses, they don't tell you that your right eye has a
dioptre of minus three and your left a dioptre of minus three and a half,
possibly imagining that this is specialist knowledge and of no particular
use to the bespectacled layman.
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One on OnePavla Francova - blindness as inspiration
Rob Cameron's guest on this week's One on One is Pavla Francova, a young woman who's already achieved much in her life. She's a cross country skier and middle-distance runner with five medals under her belt. She's an English translator and interpreter and teaches Czech to foreigners. She has considerable artistic talent, recently providing the illustrations for a new book. And she's achieved all this despite being totally blind since the age of 15. To hear her story, tune into this week's One on One.
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