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.

This week:

#WhiteStickFest 2022 - the virtual music festival to celebrate International White Cane Day

For the third year in a row, Sam and Matthew report from the red carpet, from backstage and from behind the scenes of the #WhiteStickFest.

This year we feature performances from the likes of KT Tunstall and Sarah McLachlan and a very special International White Cane Day message from Dame Judi Dench.

We get a rundown of what to expect from this year’s festival from  Shane Kendall - the musical maestro who coordinates the production of everything you’ll see and/or hear at this year’s #WhiteStickFest.

We speak to a representative of the event’s sponsor UBER - Rita Peker is their Head of Rider Operations.

And we talk to Kirsten Busby - the soprano with the voice of an angel who’ll be performing at this year’s festival for the second year in a row.

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#WhiteStickFest 2022 - The virtual music festival to celebrate International White Cane Day

https://www.whitestickfest.org/

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[PHOTO CAPTION: Sarah McLachlan sitting at her piano in a wood lined music room in beautiful British Columbia ahead of her exclusive performance at #WhiteStickFest 2022]

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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.

This week:

The Blind Cricket Commentator.

We cross to Harare in Zimbabwe to talk to Dean du Plessis, the world’s only blind cricket commentator.

As well as telling us how he commentates using the sounds picked up through stump mics, Dean talks growing up in Zimbabwe, being sent to boarding school at the age of three, his love of Def Leppard and the inevitability of tequila.

If you’ve been affected by any of the issues discussed in this episode of Studio 1 or if there’s something you think we need to be talking about, please get in touch with the show. You never know, your story and your insight may help somebody else who is dealing with something similar.

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EMAIL: [email protected]    
TWITTER: http://twitter.com/varadionetwork and http://twitter.com/whingeingpom   
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Dean du Plessis

Twitter: @dean_plessis

‘Dean at Stumps’

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5t2HTsA3DYQl8SpkC7N6QD
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dean-at-stumps/id1492331381 

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[PHOTO CAPTION: Cricket commentator Dean du Plessis in action in the commentary box wearing a broadcast headset.]

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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.

This week:

Blind Tennis!

Ahead of this weekend’s inaugural Australian Blind & Low Vision Tennis Championships in Melbourne Sam and Matthew head to The Somerton Park Tennis Club in Adelaide where Tennis Australia Accessibility Coach Nick Bradley is running a training session.

We speak to two of the players participating in this weekend’s tournament: Tim Haggis and Courtney Lewis.

Sam has his first go at blind tennis, taking on sixteen year old young gun Max Oliver.

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[PHOTO CAPTION: Studio 1 presenter Sam Rickard on court at Somerton Park Tennis Club, racket in hand.]

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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.

This week:

The Talking Kitchen!

Our guest Liz Simmons is on a mission to help people living with low vision or blindness to cook with confidence. 

To this end, over the last four years, she and her husband Garry have built a kitchen-cum-TV studio and equipped it with all of the latest accessible cooking technology.

Liz now runs a video channel called ‘My Talking Kitchen’ which is full of recipe ideas and cooking tips for people living with a vision impairment.

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My Talking Kitchen

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZEB2s5BMI3Vjpw_WEG0FRA

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/mytalkingkitchen

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[PHOTO CAPTION: Studio 1 guest and proprietor of My Talking Kitchen Liz Simmons looking confident and capable in her high-tech kitchen-cum-TV studio.]

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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.

This week:

Our guest is Vision Australia’s very own semi-tame celebrity chef Tony Broun.
Normally when Tony comes onto Studio 1 he’s here to share his culinary knowledge. He specialises in helping people who have lost their sight to regain their confidence in the kitchen - to find their cooking mojo again. 
But this week, Tony is here in a personal capacity. We’re going to reveal the man behind the legend.

Tony shares his experience of navigating the NDIS - Australia’s National Disability Insurance scheme - and gives us some handy tips for overcoming some of the system’s notoriously difficult administrative hurdles.

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[PHOTO CAPTION: A portrait of Vision Australia’s rakishly handsome, semi-tame celebrity chef Tony Broun.]
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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.

This week:

For the first time Matthew has a go at using adaptive technology.

Megan McEvoy from Quantum RLV joins Matthew and Sam in the studio to give them some hands-on experience with the Orcam Readsmart, a nifty bit of kit that can read out printed text.

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

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

CALL or TEXT: 04 500 78834

EMAIL: [email protected]   

TWITTER: http://twitter.com/varadionetwork  and http://twitter.com/whingeingpom  

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RESOURCES

Quantum RLV - https://www.quantumrlv.com.au/

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[PHOTO CAPTION: Left to right: Quantum RLV’s Megan McEvoy with Studio 1’s Sam Rickard and Matthew Layton in Vision Australia Adelaide’s Radio Studio. Matthew is holding the Orcam Readsmart  over a piece of A4 paper.]

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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.

This week:

We’re heading to BIGSOUND - the Southern Hemisphere’s equivalent of South by Southwest - who claim that this year they have the world’s first fully accessible festival stage. 

We’ll be meeting one of the artists who will be playing on that stage. His name is VOLI K and he is a big old bundle of positivity and joy

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.

CALL or TEXT: 04 500 78834

EMAIL: [email protected]   

TWITTER: http://twitter.com/varadionetwork  and http://twitter.com/whingeingpom  

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BIGSOUND 2022 - https://www.bigsound.org.au/

VOLI K. - https://ffm.to/volikjoy 

[PHOTO CAPTION: A portrait of Good Times Ambassador Voli K. wearing his magnificent beard and a very smart hat.]

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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.This week:

Mentoring. 

Our guest on this week’s Studio 1 is Lilli. Lilli is 15 years old and - as well as having to deal with all the stuff that teenagers have to deal with - she has a significant vision impairment.

We often talk about the merits of mentoring on Studio 1, but now it’s time for me to put my money where my mouth is.

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.
CALL or TEXT: 04 500 78834
EMAIL: [email protected]   
TWITTER: http://twitter.com/varadionetwork and http://twitter.com/whingeingpom  
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Vision Australia LEAP leadership and employment scheme - 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.

This week:

The Chief Executive Officer of Blind Citizens Australia Sally Aurisch. Sally will be joining us from Canberra where she is currently attending the NDIS Jobs and Skills Summit.

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.

CALL or TEXT: 04 500 78834

EMAIL: [email protected]   

TWITTER: http://twitter.com/varadionetwork  and http://twitter.com/whingeingpom  

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GUESTS AND RESOURCES

Sally Aurisch, Chief Executive Officer, Blind Citizens Australia -  https://www.bca.org.au 

For details of the BCA Inform event mentioned by Sally (and loads more BCA events, go to 

https://www.bca.org.au/events/ 

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[PHOTO CAPTION: A portrait of Sally Aurisch, Chief Executive Officwe of Blind Citizens Australia.]

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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.

This week:

The first blind person to have made it to the top of Mount Everest, friend of the show Erik Weihenmayer.

So no mucking about this week.

We’re going to dive straight into this wide ranging interview  - in which Erik and I talk about how much we admire our mums, Erik tells us just what it takes to get to the top of Mount Everest and, hopefully, we do a good job promoting ‘No Barriers’ - his summit for young people which takes place later this month.

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.

CALL or TEXT: 04 500 78834

EMAIL: [email protected]   

TWITTER: http://twitter.com/varadionetwork  and http://twitter.com/whingeingpom  

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GUESTS AND RESOURCES

Erik Weihenmayer’s 2022 No Barriers Summit 

YMCA of the Rockies, Estes Park, CO

August 25th-28th

https://nobarriersusa.org/ 

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[PHOTO CAPTION: Rakishly handsome adventurer, explorer and Studio 1 guest Erik Weihenmayer atop a high peak on a rather crisp-looking day, beneath a beautiful blue sky, snow-covered mountains in the background.]

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