World Blind Union Newsletter – Article

‘Seeing with the hands’: Philosophical Approaches to Touch and Blindness This is the 700 word article that I was asked to write for the Newsletter of the World Blind Union. This was an opportunity to speak to a non-sighted readership about some of the issues, concepts and ideas in my forthcoming book Seeing With the...

BBC Spotlight: Blind man perceiving an elephant

In May I was interviewed on a local news programme for the South West of England, BBC Spotlight. The story concerns a blind man in Paignton Zoo encountering a real elephant for the first time. Although I was interviewed in the TV studio for a while, I only appear for seconds - oh well. The...

Interview for CBC Radio, ‘Spark’

In May, the presenter of the long-running technology and ideas show on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 'Spark', asked me to be interviewed for the programme. So off I went to the BBC studio in Exeter to record it, having never listened to the programme before. The end result of the programme was pleasing - they intercut...

BBC News story: women have more sensitive touch?

Or: how to be phoned up by the BBC, asked to give thoughtful and detailed answers to their questions, and have your views totally changed and given an entirely different spin when written up and posted. It also goes to prove that, given limited scientific research findings, plus a journalist with a deadline, almost anything...