Studio 1

Matthew Layton and Sam Rickard present Studio 1 - Vision Australia Radio’s weekly look at life from a low vision and blind point of view.

On this week’s show…

Our guest is Vision Australia’s employment guru Belinda Wilson.

She’s a woman with a tough but rewarding job. 

She prepares young people living with low vision and blindness to prepare themselves for their careers and higher education.

Officially Belinda has joined us to talk about Vision Australia’s LEAP Program which offers leadership and employability training to young people aged between 14 and 19 living with a vision impairment, but this is the third time that we’ve had Belinda on Studio 1 and we wanted to get to know her as a person.

Please get in touch with the show if you have experience of the issues covered in this episode of Studio 1, or if there’s something you think we should be talking about.

You never know, your story and your insight may help someone who is going through something similar.

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RESOURCES

Vision Australia’s LEAP Program - https://www.visionaustralia.org/services/find-services/children/high-school-years/leap

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Matthew Layton and Sam Rickard present Studio 1 - Vision Australia Radio’s weekly look at life from a low vision and blind point of view.

On this week’s show…

“Sarnya Moss OAM, with Lizzy Eastham”

As Matthew jumps on a train to Birmingham, we send new recrui Lizzy Eastham to talk to Sarnya Moss (nee Parker) a Tandem Cycling Gold Medalist who competed at the very first IBSA World Games in Madrid.

As a Tandem Cyclist herself, Lizzy wants to know what it takes to succeed in the sport, and how she can do tings differently to succeed.  

We also learn that Trademen do occasionally arrive early.... 

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[PHOTO CAPTION: Sarnya and her medals from Sydney 2000]

We would like to thank both Sarnya Moss and Lizzy Eastham for their help with this show.
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Matthew Layton and Sam Rickard present Studio 1 - Vision Australia Radio’s weekly look at life from a low vision and blind point of view.

On this week’s show…

We talk to our Choir of Angels - our panel of experts with experience of living with a vision impairment.

The topic up for discussion this week:

“If you could see…”

We ask our panel “What’s the first thing you would do if were gifted or re-gifted sight?’

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[PHOTO CAPTION: A close-up shot of a human eye.]

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Matthew Layton and Sam Rickard present Studio 1 - Vision Australia Radio’s weekly look at life from a low vision and blind point of view. 

On this week’s show… 

Sam speaks to David Hume   

David was one of many premature babies brn in the mid-20th Century who lost his sight while being treated in an incubator. However, being totally blind has not stopped him having a number if distinguished careers including in Radio; winemaking and Employment Opportunities.   In 1984 and 1985, aboard "Out of Sight Out of Mind" took part in the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.

We let David tell his story though an interview, through extracts from his book “Blind Without Barriers” and through his own retellings of a rather tempestuous Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. 

You can find his book in the Vision Australia Library: https://www.visionaustralia.org/services/library/  

The book is also purchasable through most retail sites like Amazon; Goodread or Booktopia, or even though David’s own website: https://davidhume.com.au/ 

 

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GUESTS AND RESOURCES 

A big thank you to David Hume 

Chosen Excerpts from “Blind Without Barriers” audiobook 

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg7-vu0VP3Y  

[PHOTO CAPTION: Headshot of David Hume and a smaller shot of the cover of his book. 

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WARNING: This week’s Studio 1 contains language that some listeners may find offensive.

 

Matthew Layton and Sam Rickard present Studio 1 - Vision Australia Radio’s weekly look at life from a low vision and blind point of view.

 

On this week’s show…

Matthew speaks to Dave Kent, a man who has been a guide dog handler for 44 years - the last thirty of which he has been working for Guide Dogs for the blind.

The conversation starts off in a rather jovial manner, but goes in a direction that some listeners may find difficult to listen to as Dave describes being taken away from home at 18 months old and tells us how he recently got run over for the first time in his 44 years as a guide dog user - by an electric bike!

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GUESTS AND RESOURCES

Dave Kent, 

‘Together We Shine’ by Chad and Dave on YouTube  - https://youtu.be/3UYaAsgfY18

Guide Dogs: Sponsor a Puppy TV ad starring Dave Kent - https://youtu.be/KUMfyYf5J0M 

[PHOTO CAPTION: Headshot of Dave Kent and canine companion having a nice hug]

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On this week’s Studio 1: Communications Officer extraordinaire and Member of the Women’s Australian Blind Cricket Team Deanne Ferris.

Matthew Layton and Sam Rickard present Studio 1 - Vision Australia Radio’s weekly look at life from a low vision and blind point of view.

Our guest this week is the Communications Officer for West Australia’s Drug and Alcohol Service, Dee Ferris who has been announced as part of the first ever Women’s Blind Cricket Team to compete at the IBSA World Games. (https://ibsasport.org/ibsa-world-games/ibsa-world-games-2023/)

Sam writes:

“Me and Heidi have known Dee since 2001, and have spent many an afternoon over a pint or three of beer chatting much like this interview.

Quite often people say someone was “Lucky Enough” to make it onto an International Sports Team luck be damned – being Not-Out against NSW (the current National Champions) at the National Cricket Inclusion Championships might have had something to do with this well-deserved selection.”

I hope our listeners enjoy Dee’s company this episode as much as we do.

Please get in touch with the show, whether you have experience of any of the issues covered in this episode of Studio 1 or if you think there’s something we should be talking about.

You never know your story and your insight may help somebody else who is dealing with something similar.

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[PHOTO CAPTION: Studio 1 guest Deane Ferris resplendent in West Australian Cricket uniform.]

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On this week’s Studio 1: Shannon Davis, the family man and former PwC partner who went for a routine eye check up and was told he’d lost 90% of his sight.

Matthew Layton and Sam Rickard present Studio 1 - Vision Australia Radio’s weekly look at life from a low vision and blind point of view.

Our guest this week is family man, high powered business mega-brain and formerly Australia’s number four in junior men’s tennis Shannon Davis.

Unfortunately - proving that sight-loss can happen to anyone - a couple of years ago, out of the blue, Shannon discovered that he’d lost ninety percent of his sight to glaucoma. 

Matthew writes:

“Shannon first came into our orbit in March last year, when - within 15 months of discovering that he had lost 90% of his sight to glaucoma - he put himself out there, working as an ambassador for Glaucoma Australia

“As mercenary as it sounds, and as much as I felt for Shannon and his family at a difficult time is way of looking at things - from a consultant’s view - organisational and policy perspective - was quite exciting
In many ways, I felt that his personal loss was going to be to the benefit of other people living with vision impairments and sight loss.

“And I wasn’t wrong.

“A couple of months ago to mark World Glaucoma Week, Shannon and Glaucoma Australia put together a seminar on ‘Financial Wellness’ - basically what can you do to look after yourself and your family financially in the aftermath of sudden and catastrophic sight loss.

“In theory, Shannon was here to promote that seminar.

https://glaucoma.org.au/i-have-glaucoma/living-with-glaucoma/financial-wellness-in-glaucoma-what-assistance-is-out-there

“But because Shannon is incredibly frank about what he’s been through and very generous of spirit, our conversation went in a totally different direction. 

Please get in touch with the show, whether you have experience of any of the issues covered in this episode of Studio 1 or if you think there’s something we should be talking about.

You never know your story and your insight may help somebody else who is dealing with something similar.

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[PHOTO CAPTION: Studio 1 guest Shannon Davis on a beach, dressed in a t-shirt, clearly making the most of his new life.]]

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On this week’s Studio 1: Vision Australia Radio’s most senior presenter Peter Greco shows Sam and Matthew how it’s meant to be done!

Matthew Layton and Sam Rickard present Studio 1 - Vision Australia Radio’s weekly look at life from a low vision and blind point of view.

This week’s guest Peter Greco joins us to celebrate his long association with Vision Australia Radio - 30 yars as a presenter, 40 years as a listener.

Please get in touch with the show, whether you have experience of any of the issues covered in this episode of Studio 1 or if you think there’s something we should be talking about.

You never know your story and your insight may help somebody else who is dealing with something similar.

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[PHOTO CAPTION: A portrait of the very handsome, very dashing Vision Australia Radio presenter Peter Greco - who definitely does not look old enough to have been presenting on the station for 30 years]

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On this week’s Studio 1: Matthew speaks to the man who last week was appointed Surgeon Oculist to the Royal Household - or as Matthew used to know him when they were kids, “Graham from next door”

Matthew Layton and Sam Rickard present Studio 1 - Vision Australia Radio’s weekly look at life from a low vision and blind point of view.

On this week’s show…

The third and final show recorded during Matthew’s unexpected, last minute trip to London.

Matthew speaks Mr. Graham, Duguid, consultant surgeon at the Western Eye Hospital in Central London.

Graham is the son of the late great Mr. Ian Duguid, who was also a consultant eye surgeon and the man who operated on Matthew’s eyes when it was discovered that he was born with congenital cataracts 

And, as you may have worked out by now, the Duguids lived next door to the Laytons for about forty years.

So this one’s personal.

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[PHOTO CAPTION: Havanese Socks with his human Mr Graham Duguid, who is a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at The Western Eye Hospital]

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What’s it like to be a sighted child with blind parents?

Matthew Layton and Sam Rickard present Studio 1, Vision Australia Radio’s weekly look at life from a low vision and blind point of view

This week the second of three shows recorded on Matthew's recent unexpected last-minute trip to London.

Last week, we spoke to proud mum, obedient wife and Eye Clinic Liaison Officer at Great Ormond Street Children’s hospital in London Paula Thomas.

This week Paula’s beautiful fourteen year old daughter Charlotte joins us.

Paula and her husband Stuart both live with a vision impairment, but Charlotte is sighted.

What’s it like to be the sighted child of parents who can’t see?

In a warm, moving and often darkly funny interview Charlotte and Paula talk about their experiences and do some bickering.

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[PHOTO CAPTION: Studio 1 guests Charlotte and Paula Thomas in a field. Paula is wearing a broad-brimmed hat that is a couple of sizes too big for her head.]

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