Cambridge museum and the Rowan Humberstone arts centre will place disabled people in the storytelling seat not only to improve access to the museum and it’s collection but also to showcase those often unheard stories of disabled people in Cambridgeshire - past, present, and future.

The project has been made possible by Funding from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Through the Museum’s Association.

RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey was joined by Alex Smaridge, engagement and collections manager at Cambridge Museum to give more detail about this very exciting project which is very much in the early stages at the moment.

You will find out more about Cambridge Museum and ways of contacting the museum if you live in or around Cambridge and would like to get involved in the project or share your own experiences of visiting a museum as a blind or partially sighted person by visiting the museum’s website - https://www.museumofcambridge.org.uk

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Where does April Fools Day come from? Which birds will sing in the dawn chorus?

Here’s Amelia with this month's almanac...

Learn more about April nature on the RSPB website - Nature's Calendar: April

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ITV and Guinness helped to make this year’s coverage of the Men’s Six Nations rugby tournament more accessible than ever. Hywel Davies has been finding out what the reaction has been like from sports fans.

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David Hogg finds out about Craigavon Talking Newspaper.

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Jennifer Murray chats to Pete Torode from Guernsey to learn about his sight loss story.

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Each month, RNIB Connect Radio's Allan Russell talks with Anne Hornsby from 

Mind's Eye to look at some forthcoming events with Audio Description.

AD makes television, movies, galleries  and other arts events more inclusive, accessible and enjoyable for blind and partially sighted people.

This month they’re looking at a footballing classic, a staple of high school English lessons and Anne’s got some travel news too.

If you'd like more information on audio described events, go to www.mindseyedescription.co.uk

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Each week, on RNIB Connect Radio we sit down with Matt Stringer, CEO of RNIB, to look at some of the big stories coming from the UK sight loss charity.

This week Matt began by reflecting on the chancellor Rachel Reeves Spring Statement coming a week after the green paper on welfare reform, news about assistive technology following a dinner Matt attended at the Royal Society and ending with the recent Transport Select Committee report which was published last week. 

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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 of his regular audio described theatre reviews for 2025.

This week we have a fresh new production of Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’ as the Trafalgar Theatre’s touring production visited the Birmingham Repertory Theatre with description by Professional Audio Describer Carolyn Smith.

About ‘Death of A Salesman’

One of the greatest plays of the twentieth century, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman explodes onto the stage in this fresh new production led by acclaimed actor David Hayman (Sid and Nancy, Dad’s Army).

This timeless, powerful story takes you on a thrilling journey through the final 24 hours of Willy Loman’s life, filled with his memories, dreams, struggles and pitting a Father’s expectations against his sons realities.

"Powerful and poignant.”

 

For more about the Trafalgar Theatre’s touring production of ‘Death of A Salesman’ do visit the production’s website - https://www.deathofasalesmantour.co.uk

And for more about access at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre including details of audio described performances do visit - https://www.birmingham-rep.co.uk/your-visit/accessibility/

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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 of his regular audio described theatre reviews for 2025.

This week we have a fresh new production of Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’ as the Trafalgar Theatre’s touring production visited the Birmingham Repertory Theatre with description by Professional Audio Describer Carolyn Smith.

About ‘Death of A Salesman’

One of the greatest plays of the twentieth century, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman explodes onto the stage in this fresh new production led by acclaimed actor David Hayman (Sid and Nancy, Dad’s Army).

This timeless, powerful story takes you on a thrilling journey through the final 24 hours of Willy Loman’s life, filled with his memories, dreams, struggles and pitting a Father’s expectations against his sons realities.

"Powerful and poignant.”

 

For more about the Trafalgar Theatre’s touring production of ‘Death of A Salesman’ do visit the production’s website - https://www.deathofasalesmantour.co.uk

And for more about access at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre including details of audio described performances do visit - https://www.birmingham-rep.co.uk/your-visit/accessibility/

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Our David Hogg learns about a new design concept which aims to make air travel more accessible for blind and partially sighted people.

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