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Interviews for people of all abilities - on sport, education, health, tech and social justice.

Interviews on sports, health concerns, innovative teaching and other topics for people of all abilities.

Interviews on sport, health, leisure, special programs and events for people of all abilities.

Interviews on sport, health and leisure for people of all abilities.

Sam Lilly shares their favourite space with Sam Drummond.

First part of an interview with someone who has experienced rapid loss of vision.

An Adelaide secondhand bookshop owner talks about the business and its aims.

Accessible Vision Library books reviewed, including murder mysteries and award nominees.

Stephen Jolley shares their favourite space with Sam Drummond.

Second part of an interview with an Australian writer, actor, model and public speaker.

This program asks: can people with a disability have a say in the accessibility of retail?

A champion roller skater with autism shares life and skating experiences.

Jax Brown shares their favourite space with Sam Drummond.

Update on forthcoming events and available publications at the Vision Australia Library.

An author and mental health therapist discusses her works and experiences.

An Australian fantasy author, actor, model and public speaker discusses her life and work.

Perils of the road, entertainment tips - and why travel if you can't see?

An Australian author discusses her works, plus reviews of other books in the Vision Library.

Part 1 of an interview about a project to make tourism more accessible to blind-low vision travellers.

Musician, writer and advocate Eliza Hull shares her favourite space with Sam Drummond.

Part 2 of an interview with an Australian poet and teacher about his life and work.

Two former Paralympians discuss their lives before, during and after the event.

Part 2 of an interview with a Paralympic champion discussing disability, technology and sports.

Books from Vision Library reviewed include a Julie Andrews memoir, Guardian newspaper picks and more.

Life and work experiences of an Australia poet and teacher.

Discussion of controversy about Mattel's new Blind Barbie doll - is it inclusion or tokenism?

A veteran Australian paralympian shares her personal experiences and challenges in the leadup to Paris 2024.

Highlights of readings from novels for and about children, and insights from a graphic novelist.

A musician-advocate with a disability speaks of her career, the industry and mental health.

A theatre specialist and a podcaster in conversation about theatrical writing and production.

Part 2 of an interview with an Australian writer, performer and fitness instructor.

Blind surf champion Matt Formston shares big-wave experiences... plus paralympic selection issues.

Latest reviews and readings from publications in the Vision Library for people with print disabilities.

Latest publications in the Vision Library, starting with a biography of John Farnham.

Artist, author and publisher Annie Huang talks of the role of zines in their mental health journey.

Experiences of a vision impaired walker of the Camino Pilgrimage in Portugal/Spain.

First part of an interview with an emerging Australian writer, performer and fitness instructor.

Concluding an interview with this Chilean-Australian poet, academic and translator.

An expert with experience discusses issues and developments in live music disability access and technology.

Two well-known authors open the latest look at new publications in the Vision Australia Library.

A Chilean-Australian poet, academic and translator shares his work and experiences.

Experiences of a blind Aboriginal man in Central Australia and the supportive work of specialist services.

Part 2 of an interview with an Australian poet, researcher, neurodiversity advocate and rock climber.

A First Nations generational trauma experience is shared at the Woodcock Public Lecture, May 2024.

Community events soon to happen at Vision Australia Library for people with blindness and low vision.

Remastered interviews from earlier in the series about love and romance.

Thoughts of an Australian poet, researcher, neurodiversity advocate and rock climber.

Students and teachers at the National Braille Music Camp discuss the annual event.

New books in Vision Library including the Wikileaks founder's autobiography.

Members of a renowned disability arts ensemble discuss their work.

A spoken word poet and student presents writings and shares experiences.

Books in Vision Australia library for people with impaired vision - this time on the theme of Darkness.

People with blindness or low vision discuss Australia's NDIS, its services and what could be done better.

Vision Library's coming community events and latest books for people with blindness or low vision.

New Brainwaves team members discuss stigma around mental health during 3CR's Radiothon.

Features insights from a rare book seller in the Adelaide Hills.

A street dancer talks of his career and how he's responded to losing his sight.

Reader Recommends and crime fiction from the Vision Australia library for blind and low vision people.

Features an interview with Australian poet and event producer Max Levy.

A musician speaks about how glaucoma has affected his work and life.

Celebrating National Reconciliation Week with books from Vision Australia Library... plus some user favourites.

Features Archie Beetle of startup Queer Town on delivering LGBTIQA+ inclusion workplace training.

A poem about Gallipoli and thoughts by a poet and artist about war and its impacts on mental health.

A proudly autistic author, actor and advocate talks of his media work in validation and support.

A writer, historian, podcaster and trans advocate talks of their mental health journey.

A Brainwaves producer tells his personal story of mental health and spiritual awakening.

A bookseller on the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia speaks on the art of bookselling in a rural community.

A mental health advocate discusses her lived experience of mental health, domestic violence and more.

A noted writer, speaker and advocate speaks about women and mental health, disability, discrimination and more.

Binge eating discussed - with a writer and poet with personal experience.

A low-vision optometrist answers important questions about eye checks.

Murder mystery novels available from the Vision Australia library are reviewed and sampled.

Second part of our talk with this spoken word poet, a year on from her first interview with us.

Radio volunteers from Vision Australia and a former ABC announcer talk about the national week.

Angel & Johanna chat about what it takes to achieve goals as a person with disability.

Johanna & Angel talk about why 22% of respondents agreed that people with disability have less to look forward to than others.

Angel & Todd discuss the statistic: 63% of respondents agree that people with disability are easy to exploit.

Angel and Emma delve into how it’s not just non-disabled people who make fun of disability.

Angel talks with Emma Bennison, disability advocate and Board Member of Attitude Foundation.

Emily shares what it’s like to be on the receiving end of interactions where people are unsure how to treat her.

Athletics for the vision-impaired - the opportunities are discussed with a two-time Paralympian.

Part 1 of an interview with this spoken word poet, a year on from her first interview on this program.

A Sydney organisation delivers creative arts and life skills to people with disabilities.

Radio 2RPH's manager speaks about the Sydney station serving listeners with print disabilities.

Forthcoming Vision Library events including those connected with the Melbourne Writers' Festival.

A conversation with Arantza García - spoken word poet.

From the Vision Australia library: a South African childhood, AI issues and an American First Lady.

Public advocate Karan Nigrani speaks of the intersectional challenges of being blind, gay and of colour.

An innovative Australian businesswoman discusses how to make beauty products more PwD-accessible.

Behind the scenes of emerging Australian writing, some professional observations on the art of secondhand bookselling.

CEO of the Macular Disease Foundation Australia discusses their work and developments in treatment.

ANZAC Day edition of this series from the Vision Australia library for people with blindness or low vision.

Interview with a podcaster and curator of spoken word events featuring emerging Australian writers.

Efforts nationwide in Vision Australia's First to 100k fundraising drive for its radio stations.

Special Part 2 featuring emerging writers and translators at Adelaide's No Wave event.

How printed works are brought to life as audio books in the Vision Australia Library.

A tribute to the life and work of founding Blind Citizens Australia member Alan Bates.

Coming events and new books at the Vision Australia Library for blind and low vision people.

The Vision Australia Library for Blind/Low Vision people - its services and how to access them.

Part 1 of a special featuring poetry and translation at Adelaide's No Wave poetry event.

Coming events at Vision Australia Library in connection with the Melbourne Writers' Festival.

A comical narrative exploration of a 1940s painting by a broadcaster with a disability.

Insights into Ideomotor Body Apraxia, an under-researched condition associated with Autism.

Latest books from Vision Australia Library - this week, some top Oz and worldwide novels.

Interview with emerging Australian poet and prose writer Drew Cuffley.

Part 2 of an interview with emerging Australian writer and performer Sarah Jane Justice.

An update on the future of Psychocinematic Podcast...

Topics covered in part 3 include: marriage, advocacy, dating apps, and tele-link groups.

Blind Citizens Australia Vice-President discusses the organisation's 50 years of operation.

First part of an interview with Sarah Jane Justice - emerging Australian writer, voice actor and musician.

Follow-up to Studio 1's Valentine's Day program, more experiences of romance when you're blind or low vision.

Coming events and books at Vision Australia Library for people with blindness or low vision.

A Perth broadcaster with a disability talks about how she found a passion for fashion.

Second part of an interview with Steve Brock, translator and emerging Australian writer.

A blind vendor of The Big Issue magazine explains how it changed his life.

From the Vision Australia Library, women's memoirs on International Women's Day.

Features the honest lived experience of two women living with disabilities.

New books in the Vision Australia Library - in this edition, books about paintings.

First part of an interview with emerging poet and translator Steve Brock.

The Queensland Branch of Blind Citizens Australia - its work and how to make contact.

Blind Citizens Australia program this week updates developments in its National Women's Branch.

The forthcoming Job Ready Workshop series is outlined by project officer Madi Braim.

An update on the news and works of Blind Citizens Australia from Vice-President Helen Ferris.

Blind Citizens Australia discusses NDIS developments with Jonathan Craig of Vision 2020.

Key moments defining AFL's West Coast Eagles as they headed for a Premiership triumph.

Part 2 of an interview with educator and speaker Ben Aldridge.

The team explores what's it's like to do jury service when you're blind or have low vision.

Features Jamie Kelly of Vision Australia Library, updating us on its website catalogue. And other new books.

Examines the role of local libraries in fostering emerging writers.

Features Dr Gemma Parker - award-winning Australian poet, essayist and academic.

Breaking Sound Barriers graduate returns with an update on the project and his own story.

Inclusive training/podcast series - this edition, Part 1 of an interview with educator and speaker Ben Aldridge.

RTRFM's inclusive series features a heart-stopping swoop into helicopter flight simulations.

Disability-themed program features champion wheelchair basketballer Michael Hartnett OAM.

Radio RTRFM's disability-inclusive broadcasting and training project opens with participant Jason Bodle.

Latest events and books from Vision Australia Library, featuring its Community Engagement Co-ordinator.

Features Graeme Innes: Australian disability advocate, human rights lawyer, and much more.

What's the romantic world like when you can't see your potential partner? The team grapples with Valentine's Day questions.

An Adelaide bookshop manager's reflections on how to sell books.

Tandem cycling competitors and an ex-coach discuss a great sport for low vision people.

New books in the Vision Australia library - from E.L.Doctorow to Alan Bennett.

Introducing Australia's first pictureless feature film, TOUCH, showing in Sydney.

Part 2 of an interview with Australian writer Pamela Rajkowski.

A World Radio Day special featuring disability and youth broadcasters worldwide.

Review of books from the Vision Australia library - from a broad international range.

Pamela Rajkowski OAM speaks of her Australian community histories on Afghan cameleers and more.

How to have a safe and enjoyable cooking experience for Blind and Low Vision people.

Vision Australia librarian talks of coming events and latest books for people with blindness and low vision.

Part 2 of an interview with globetrotting memoir writer Mary Venner.

First of a two-part interview with Australian memoir writer Mary Venner.

A retrospective of program content that could not be podcast at the time.

Presenter Matthew Layton's final program, a retrospective on the show's achievements.

Part 2 of a report on the World Games of IBSA, the International Blind Sports Federation.

Report (Part 1) on the World Games of IBSA, the International Blind Sports Federation.

Blind/low vision program looks back on 2023 and ahead to 2024.

What's new in Vision Australia library of Braille and audio books - including new Australian works.

Veteran talking book reader Tony Porter reviews his many voices.

Bookshop manager Daniel Bednall shares experiences of selling emerging writers' books.

Works of children's writers Penny Matthews, Ian Napier, Hayley Morton, Tracy Crisp & Georgina Chadderton.

Features prose writers Hossein Asgari, Fay Lee, Michelle Prak, Shannon Burns and Jane Turner Goldsmith.

Features works by emerging Hispanoamerican writers Arantza Garcia and Juan Garrido-Salgado.

Multi-talented artist Amy Claire Mills extols the delights of quilting and Unsolicited Advice!

A special seasonal edition reviews Christmas murder stories available from Vision Australia library.

Dr Dimity Williams, family GP, recommends spending more time in nature - and a "green hour" each day.

Summer Snapshots: Multilingual Voices - features readings by Ly Luan Le, Bior Aguer and Ritesh D Singde.

Actor/comedian Lauren Edwards talks adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and being a backbrace girl in high school.

Oliver Hetherington-Page joins the team to talk about how he's working to make theatre more inclusive.

Disability advocate, artist and mum Sarah Langston discusses how the child protection system can fail neurodivergent parents.

Podcasters Heather and Sarah Taylor discuss the terrifying TV series The Haunting of Hill House.

Talented filmmaker Chris Cosgrove talks of Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Crohn's disease, and his acclaimed film Boldly Go.

Podcaster Alex Steed discusses the 2018 movie version of an oft-told tale, A Star Is Born.

Clinical psychologist Marie Camin discusses neurodivergency in TV comedy Schitts Creek.

Podcaster, writer, disability advocate and Year 12 student Priya talks of royal screen stutterers.

Enigmatic Tiktok star and disability advocate Monica Nguyen chats about all things Tourettes in film and TV.

Michael Watson joins the team to talk Stutz, Jonah Hill's Netflix documentary “about” Dr Phil Stutz.

Book reviews and excerpts from Vision Australia library - including a wartime struggle for survival.

Nikki Hind, Australia's first blind fashion designer, discusses her work.

2023 Blind Australian of the Year Lauren Henley speaks of her public advocacy work.

Part 2 of an interview with Tracy Crisp - novelist, short story writer, comedian.

Part 1 of an interview with Tracy Crisp - novelist, short story writer, comedian.

Investor Shannon Davis speaks with Studio 1 on finding financial wellness after vision loss.

Features an interview with Anthony Ferraro - blind skateboarder, performer and much more!.

Special on the parenting experience - what it's like to have kids with a Vision Impairment when you're also VI.

Two ambassadors for the Melbourne Disability Expo discuss challenge and engagement.

Aims and projects of Blind Citizens Australia - featuring its President Fiona Woods.

Youthworks Accessibility Minister Bec Baines talks of making church accessible to young people with disabilities.

Artist Ebony Wightman of disability-led We Are Studios talks about art and challenge.

Features Australian actor and dancer Kiruna Stamell.

Books from the Vision Australia library - including a memoir by a friend of Anne Frank.

Latest books from the Vision Australia library - including a novel by Australian Sam Drummond.

Hear This features latest books and events at the Vision Australia library.

Latest books from the Vision Australia library - including childhood tales and a John Grisham thriller.

This edition of Hear This from the Vision Australia library opens with a discussion of banned books.

Events and activities at Vision Australia library - and latest picks from its books.

Hear This samples a variety of audio books from the Vision Australia library.

Hear This interviews Tracey Chevalier, author of Girl with a Pearl Earring.