Jenny was keen to get a guide dog despite having some useful sight. After she lost that residual sight, her dog Janey couldn’t cope. Jenny tells #TheWeeklyConnect about how difficult it was to manage through that transition. #RNIBConnect

Subramani Lakshminarayan, author and journalist, talks to #TheWeeklyConnect about his sight loss to Retinitis Pigmentosa as a teenager. Attitudes have changed in the 30 years that he's been living with his condition and he's optimistic for the future. #RNIBConnect

On this week's show, we discuss the differences between being blind and partially sighted. We also Paws for Thought with Jenny who talks about the challenge of a new guide dog. We go to India for our World Connect series this week where we hear from blind journalist and author Subramani Lakshminarayan who faced challenges when he received his diagnosis of RP as a child when attitudes were not as forward-thinking in the country as they are now. And one of our 'connected' community Martin Houghton talks to the uncompromising Frankie Armstrong about life, losing her sight and finding her voice. #TheWeeklyConnect #RNIBConnect

What are the differences in how a person with total blindness may experience the world compared to a partially sighted person? Or how do others respond to varying levels of sight loss. #TheWeeklyConnect speaks to Julie Woods and Kerie Doyle about their perspective. #RNIBConnect

We know sighted people are just trying to help us, but is it appropriate to grab, drag or push blind and partially sighted people out of the way of upcoming challenges such as a lamp post? #TheWeeklyConnect discusses this with three blind people who have all experienced unwanted contact.

This week we meet the good people of HERIB (Hull & East Riding Institute of the Blind) who have been chosen as this week's #SocietyOfTheWeek on #TheWeeklyConnect

Karina Gregory spoke to Martyn Parker and his guidedog Wheeler for #TheWeeklyConnect to talk about their relationship together and the difficulties around access when Martyn and his dog were refused entry to a restaurant.

This week we feature the story of Ron Graham from Texas who lost his sight after his optic nerve was damaged after a car crash while he was drink driving.. He talks about life with sight loss and how is campaigns on issues affecting the visually impaired community. #TheWeeklyConnect

What is it like for a parent to learn that their newborn baby is blind? #TheWeeklyConnect hears from the father of Olivia who previously spoke to #RNIBConnectMagazine to discuss how they coped, and how they now live with a daughter living with sight loss.

Being grabbed or dragged around while trying to move around independently would irritate and annoy most people, but blind and partially sighted people face this most days. Fi Dunn tells #TheWeeklyConnect of a time she was faced with verbal abuse when she asked that a member of the public, trying to guide her without asking first, not mishandle her on her local street.