BLIND LISTENERS

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 52, 5 July 1935, Page 5

BLIND LISTENERS

TT'HERE is. probably no section of the community which more appreciates the benefit of wireless than the blind. To these people the turn of a knob opens upa world of light and colour. Sir Jan Fraser, himself a war-blinded victim, has said: Broadcasi‘ng not only ‘passes many congenial hours, but removes that sense of isolation from which the blind are apt to suffer. Blind men are well informed; they feel they are taking part in the news, the sport, the politics, the philosophy and the progress of the time. The B.B.C. has received many letters of appreciation from blind listeners in various parts of the Empire, while the New Zealand Broadcasting Board frequently finds in its mail a grateful letter from a sightless person. To most of us broadcasting is becoming much the same as gas and electricity-we accept it as ® a. part of everyday life.. But when it is looked at from the. point of view of the blind it takes on a new signifi-cance-a significance that should prevent both the able-bodied and the afflicted from accepting it too blandly.