Graham Bell chat's to Robert Kirkwood about getting back into skiing and snowboarding, and what to do now to get fit for the mountain.

Graham Bell on RNIB's Insight Radio

I talk to SlopeStyle snowboarder Aimee Fuller and ski journalist Sean Newsom about getting fit for the slopes by using one of the UK's network of dry and indoor ski slopes.

GoSki GoBoard with Aimee Fuller

Jade joins to to talk about her retirement from the sport, how she got into it in the first place, and if skiing when you can't see is scary!

Jade Etherington on skiing with a visual impairment

Caroline Powell, who guided Jade Etherington to four medals at the Winter Paralympics in Sochi, joins Robert Kirkwood to talk about accessible ski instructing.

Caroline Powell on Insight Radio

It takes a few minutes these days to download an audiobook, but back in the early days of RNIB's Talking Book service, a listener would receive a large box of LP's to play on a wind-up gramophone.

Here's an audio documentary about the history of the service, and of recorded audio as a whole, starting with soot covered paper and moving from wax cylinders to disc, to tape, to mp3. 

Talking Books at 75

Julia Donaldson visited RNIB Scotland and Insight Radio to record her book Freddie and the Fairy. Here you can listen to some of the recording process, the debates over character voices and how to tackle an ending told only through pictures and translating it for a blind listener.

Julia Donaldson recording Freddie and the Fairy

I chat to Eddie the Eagle about his new movie and skiing with a visual impairment.

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