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The Seven Wonders of the World catalogue the world's most spectacular natural wonders and man-made structures. But, if you could choose your own personal Seven Wonders of the World, what would they be? Join Clive Anderson as he sits down with a range of guests to explore exactly that. Nothing is off limits, from culinary delights to train journeys and world-famous performers, as each guest guides us through the why, the how and the when of their seven passions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com ...
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Where did the phrase ‘a wolf in sheep’s clothing’ come from? And when did scientists finally get round to naming sexual body parts? Voiced by Clive Anderson, this entertaining romp through 'The History of English' squeezes 1600 years of history into 10 one-minute bites, uncovering the sources of English words and phrases from Shakespeare and the King James Bible to America and the Internet. Bursting with fascinating facts, the series looks at how English grew from a small tongue into a major ...
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We're back for the new season! Each week, the country's top comedians join host Ian Stone to talk through the biggest football stories of the day on the funniest football show on TV.Sean Lock, Mickey Flanagan, Clive Anderson, Jon Richardson and Romesh Ranganathan are football fans through and through - and they're a regular part of The Football's On cast.Each week Ian guides our guests through the football firmament and puts a new and unique spin on the beautiful game. It's The Football's On ...
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RNIB Connect Radio is the UK radio station for blind and partially sighted people to find out what is happening in the community. You can also contribute and share your stories by emailing radio@rnib.org.uk (mailto:radio@rnib.org.uk) . Get involved and join the conversation. Other great podcast channels from RNIB Connect Radio Conversations (https://audioboom.com/channel/conversations) - Blind and partially sighted people speaking about a wide range of topics. Read On (https://audioboom.com/ ...
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This is the REX Podcast feed - your one-stop-shop for all things Rural. REX is the best of rural radio hosted by Dominic George. Dedicated to the backbone of NZ, join us as we discuss rural challenges and issues, find stories that inspire and empower, and celebrate key players in the sector across Aotearoa. For more rural news and updates, head to www.rexonline.co.nz.
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In a special episode of the REX Rural Exchange Daily Podcast host Dominic George interviews the three authors of the report, Chris Parsons, Dr Ellen Joan Ford and Josh Williams alongside Rural Leaders CEO Lisa Rogers to gain a more in-depth understanding of what it means for rural New Zealand. Tune in daily for the latest and greatest REX rural con…
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Amelia was down at the Visionary 2024 conference and award ceremony, where over 250 people from across the sight loss sector came together to discuss how they support blind and partially sighted people. Amelia spoke to Kris from Southampton Sight about a workshop he's collaborating on and also their Sight Loss Nurse Advisor Program. Image: Visionar…
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Amelia was down at the Visionary 2024 conference and award ceremony, where over 250 people from across the sight loss sector came together to discuss how they support blind and partially sighted people. Amelia spoke to Amy Pearman from Visionary for a reflection on the events. Image: Visionary logo. A dark green-grey square with 'Visionary' written…
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How is a mobile eye health education and testing unit helping raise awareness of sight loss in Birmingham? Amelia spoke with Prof Leon Davies to find out more. Image: Visionary logo. A dark green-grey square with 'Visionary' written in white font and an eye graphic made up of two interlocking rounded shapes in pink and lime green.…
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At the recent Visionary 2024 conference, Amelia learned about a creative initiative to helping children looking after their eyes and got a tour. She spoke with Project Manager and Optometrist for Villa Vision Nik Sonpal. Image: Visionary logo. A dark green-grey square with 'Visionary' written in white font and an eye graphic made up of two interloc…
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Amelia was on the conference floor at the Visionary 2024 conference in Birmingham and spoke to David Anderson who was about to deliver a workshop on the RNIBs new Eye Care Support Pathway. Image: Visionary logo. A dark green-grey square with 'Visionary' written in white font and an eye graphic made up of two interlocking rounded shapes in pink and …
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RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey is joined again by Vidar Hjardeng MBE, Inclusion and Diversity Consultant for ITV News across England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands for the next in his regular Connect Radio theatre reviews. This week Vidar is reviewing the musical masterpiece that is A Chorus Line which revolutionised Broadway bac…
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As we celebrate 200 years since the creation of braille, RNIB is helping spread awareness of the tactile system of raised dots. We find out more as Allan Russell chats with Tech Talk's Dave Williams. Image shows a square with three stripes. From top to bottom: pink stripe with 'Braille 200' written in white text, black stripe with an image depictio…
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Each month, RNIB Connect Radio's Allan Russell is joined by some of the RNIB Campaigns Team to discuss some of the big projects they’re involved in and ask for your input to bring positive change to the lives of blind and partially sighted people, throughout the UK. This month’s topics include a First Bus Swap With Me Event and news on the politica…
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On today's REX Daily Podcast, Dom talks with RaboResearch analyst Paul Joules about the likelihood of skyrocketing chocolate prices in the months to come, the global cocoa shortage due to a disappointing harvest in West Africa and the reaction of chocolate producers... He talks with Waikaka publican Daryl Meikle, in the latest edition of the REX Ru…
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Amelia is at the Visionary 2024 conference once again today with over 250 people from across the sight loss sector. She spoke to Fiona Sandford from Visionary this morning to hear what the day holds. Image: Visionary logo. A dark green-grey square with 'Visionary' written in white font and an eye graphic made up of two interlocking rounded shapes i…
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Amelia attended the Visionary 2024 Conference Awards which celebrated exciting and innovative projects across the sight loss sector. She spoke to Mark and Andrew from My Vision Oxfordshire right after their Innovate and Inspire Award win sponsored by Fight For Sight. Image: Visionary logo. A dark green-grey square with 'Visionary' written in white …
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Amelia attended the Visionary 2024 Conference Awards which celebrated exciting and innovative projects across the sight loss sector. Amelia spoke to Hassan Khan and Kevin Gregory from Merton Vision right after they won the Children and Young People Award which was sponsored by the Powell Family Foundation. Image: Visionary logo. A dark green-grey s…
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Amelia attended the Visionary 2024 Conference Awards which celebrated exciting and innovative projects across the sight loss sector. RNIB sponsored the Connect and Collaborate Award and spoke to the Vision Partnership right after their win. Image: Visionary logo. A dark green-grey square with 'Visionary' written in white font and an eye graphic mad…
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Named after the radical painter JMW Turner, the Turner Prize was set up in 1984 to celebrate British Contemporary Artists. On Tuesday 24 September 2024 Tate Britain unveiled the work of the four artists who have been shortlisted for this year’s prize: Pio Abad, Jasleen Kaur, Claudette Johnson and Delaine Le Bas. At the press view for the Turner Pri…
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Fern Lulham is a blind broadcaster and producer who Amelia caught up with at the visionary 2024 conference, here she is with more on her career and audio description work. Image: Visionary logo. A dark green-grey square with 'Visionary' written in white font and an eye graphic made up of two interlocking rounded shapes in pink and lime green.…
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Back to the Visionary 2024 conference and Amelia spoke to local sight loss service Hartlepool Vision Support about their mission to get blind and partially sighted teens more active. Image: Visionary logo. A dark green-grey square with 'Visionary' written in white font and an eye graphic made up of two interlocking rounded shapes in pink and lime g…
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The Visionary Conference is taking place this week, and Visionary worked with various organisations including RNIB to make it as accessible as possible for blind and partially sighted attendees, here’s Amelia with more. Image: Visionary logo. A dark green-grey square with 'Visionary' written in white font and an eye graphic made up of two interlock…
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Back to the conference floor as Amelia spoke to various members of Thomas Pocklington Trust about what they’ll be focussing on this year and their get set progress internship partnership with RNIB. Image: Visionary logo. A dark green-grey square with 'Visionary' written in white font and an eye graphic made up of two interlocking rounded shapes in …
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The Visionary 2024 Conference is in full swing and Amelia spoke to Ellie Southwood from Fight for Sight after her keynote about the future of Fight for Sight. Image: Visionary logo. A dark green-grey square with 'Visionary' written in white font and an eye graphic made up of two interlocking rounded shapes in pink and lime green.…
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Back to the Visionary conference now where Amelia got a roundup of the keynote panel with Ellie Southwood from Fight For Sight, Broadcasters Dr Amit Patel and Fern Lulham, and James Watson O’Neill Chief Exec of SignHealth. Image: Visionary logo. A dark green-grey square with 'Visionary' written in white font and an eye graphic made up of two interl…
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One of the most interesting announcements from the recent ‘Meta Connect’ event was the launch of the ‘Be My Eyes’ service on the Meta Ray Bans smart glasses. Tech Talk’s Callum Stoneman spoke to the team from ‘Be My Eyes’ to hear more. The full version of this conversation can be found in 'Tech Talk Episode 532', released on Tuesday October 1st.…
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On today's REX Daily Podcast, Dom talks with Southland Federated Farmers President Jason Herrick about the appalling wet conditions in Southland, how he's coping personally and ongoing battles with the Gore District Council... He talks with Richard Dawkins from The Pyramid in Marlborough about his highly successful attempts to minimise lambing loss…
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Amelia is at the Visionary 2024 conference with 250 attendees including representatives from many local sight loss organisations. She spoke to staff from My Vision Oxfordshire who are nominated for an award later tonight. Image: Visionary logo. A dark green-grey square with 'Visionary' written in white font and an eye graphic made up of two interlo…
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Amelia is at the Visionary 2024 conference with 250 attendees including representatives from many local sight loss organisations. Here she is talking to the Chief Exec of Merton Vision about their work. Image: Visionary logo. A dark green-grey square with 'Visionary' written in white font and an eye graphic made up of two interlocking rounded shape…
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Amelia is at the Visionary 2024 conference with 250 attendees who work in the sight loss sector. She spoke to Nina Chesworth, Lived experience and campaigns manager for Visionary, for a conference look ahead. Image: Visionary logo. A dark green-grey square with 'Visionary' written in white font and an eye graphic made up of two interlocking rounded…
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Each month, RNIB Connect Radio's Allan Russell talks with Anne Hornsby from MindsEye Description. Audio Description makes television, movies, galleries and other arts venues accessible and enjoyable for blind and partially sighted people. AD is a narration describing what is physically happening, say on stage, TV or the big screen. It can also desc…
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On today's REX Daily Podcast, Dom talks with dairy analyst Stu Davison from HighGround Dairy about Fonterra's FY24 results... He talks with Federated Farmers Dairy Chair Richard McIntyre about his perspective of the co-op's results... He talks with Amanda Henderson from Beef+Lamb NZ about her role as Extension Manager for Tasman and Marlborough, th…
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We have recently heard about how the National Trust was trialing the NaviLens technology and codes at Saltram House, Plymouth, one of the National Trust’s properties in the South West of England is the first outdoor cultural site in the UK and the first cultural venue on mainland UK to trial the NaviLens technology and codes to provide greater acce…
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The Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF) is back this year with accessible networking events and audio described screenings. They’ve been working with RNIB to ensure blind and partially sighted attendees have a good experience Amelia spoke to Kiana Kalantar-Hormozi from SQIFF and James Kyle from RNIB to learn more... SQIFF takes place…
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On today's REX Daily Podcast, Dom talks with Maniototo farmer Emma Crutchley about spring snow events, making good decisions and rural leadership... He talks with Mike Prendergast, GM Sales and Business Development with Blue Pacific Minerals, about foliar fertilisers, their advantages and how you can get your hands on some... And he talks with Scot…
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Niamh longford is a young VI actor moving from professional screen roles to her first professional stage role in 'Romeo and Juliet'. Amelia learned more about her career so far and taking on the legendary role. Learn more about Niamh on her website - @niamhlongford - ContactInBio Follow her on Tiktok, Instagram and X (twitter) under @niamhlongford …
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This National Eye Health Week we’re speaking to Optometry Scotland to hear about their plans to mark the week, plus the best ways to look after your eye health. You can find more information about Optometry Scotland via their website - Home | Optometry Scotland Image: Three large cartoon eyes dominate the logo for 'National Eye Health Week 2024' wh…
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On today's REX Daily Podcast, Dom talks with Emma Higgins, Rabobank Senior Agricultural Analyst, about a new report which looks at how NZ could potentially benefit from a Chinese investigation into the dairy subsidies provided by the EU and several of its member states... He talks with Chris Ford from Farm Training Canterbury about the programme wh…
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The tenor Russell Watson's remarkable career took him from playing from working mens clubs in Salford to performing at the Vatican. But his life hasn't been completely charmed - he discusses the brain tumour that threatened his life as well as his voice and how he found his way back to centre stage. Jackie Kay is one of the UK's most lauded poets w…
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The Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art have an exhibition exploring how disabled, d/deaf and neurodiverse artists experience the world. Amelia spoke to the artistic director Elinor Morgan and blind artist Aaron McPeake to learn more. MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, is part of Teesside University. Find out more: https://mima.art/ Lea…
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As part of the new series on REX brought to you by Dairy Women’s Network in association with Figured and CMK Dom catches up with John Dazley and Sally Coombe from CMK Accountants. Dom catches up with the Nolan's on the latest updates from their Dairy farm, how the weather has been impacting their work over the past few weeks, the impact CMK and Fig…
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On today's REX Daily Podcast, Dom talks with David Tyney from Cirro Wines about becoming the first NZ wine company to have illegal copies of its wine found in the Chinese market, fighting frost on the Marlborough vineyard and working on one of the highest vineyards on earth in the Yunnan Province... He talks with DairyNZ Head of Economics, Mark Sto…
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On today's REX Daily Podcast, Dom talks with Alistair Schorn from Organics Aotearoa NZ about a new research paper which looks at NZ's Free Trade Agreements with the EU and the UK and what impact they'll have as the EU rolls out its 'Green Deal'... He talks with Ben Todhunter from Cleardale Station about becoming the first New Zealander to be appoin…
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What’s it like teaching adults to learn Braille? To celebrate Braille 200, David Hogg spoke to Mel Pritchard from The Braillists Foundation to find out. Image shows a square with three stripes. From top to bottom: pink stripe with 'Braille 200' written in white text, black stripe with an image depiction of the same text in white braille dots, and f…
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As we celebrate the 200th anniversary of Braille, Robert Kirkwood asks Paul Porter about the history of, and the recent changes to, the RNIB Braille Library, and finds out why it no longer has 4 and a half miles of shelves. Image shows a square with three stripes. From top to bottom: pink stripe with 'Braille 200' written in white text, black strip…
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A new competition is underway to find audio-based magic tricks that are accessible to blind and partially sighted people. Hywel Davies has been hearing from the team behind the search. You can find out more about the challenge here - The auditory trick challenge | MAGIC Lab (magicresearchlab.com) Image: Dr Gustav Kuhn stands looking at the camera, …
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As we celebrate the 200th anniversary of Braille, Hubert speaks to the host of our very own Music Box Sandra Gayer, about how she uses Braille, in her personal and professional aspects, and also finds out more about Braille music. Image shows a square with three stripes. From top to bottom: pink stripe with 'Braille 200' written in white text, blac…
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On today's REX Daily Podcast, Dom talks with Stu Davison from HighGround Dairy about the latest Global Dairy Trade Event (+0.8%)... He talks with Patrick Cotter, a third year Lincoln University student who also works part-time for Exquisite Wool Traders and with Nadia Lim on the Wool Pot project... He talks with Dave Burridge from PGG Wrightson Woo…
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Are you a blind or partially-sighted student in further or higher education? RNIB have launched a toolkit to help you know your rights and empower you to self-advocate for your needs. Amelia spoke to Equality Act Advisor, Jenna Vivian, to learn more. Read the Toolkit here - Higher and Further Education Toolkit (rnib.org.uk) Image shows RNIB Connect…
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