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Radio 4,02 Jan 2018,20 mins

Fred and Etta Reid

In Touch

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Dr Fred and Etta Reid are both blind and met at the Royal School for the Blind in Edinburgh. They have been married for over fifty years. In that time they have raised three sighted children. Fred was a lecturer at Warwick University and Etta was a physiotherapist in the NHS. They also set up a volunteer reader service for blind people in Kenilworth where they both still live. They talk to Peter White about the pleasures and pressures of combining family and working life alongside their campaigning work for people with a visual impairment. Presenter: Peter White Producer: Cheryl Gabriel.

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