Accessible life, culture, and technology in detail.
RNIB Connect gathers interviews, reviews, and updates for blind and partially sighted people. Episodes move from hands-on assistive tech demos to theatre audio description, accessible voting, creative careers, and RNIB leadership updates.
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RNIB Connect is a broad, service-minded podcast from RNIB Connect Radio, built around interviews that make sight loss, accessibility, and culture feel concrete. It often starts with a simple question: what does this do, and how does it help? Recent Sight Village Central episodes give that approach a strong technology focus. WeWalk explains Smart Cane 2, obstacle detection, phone connectivity, AI features, and WeAssist. Humanware talks through the Evolve, the Monarch, multi-line braille, JAWS and NVDA support, and reading spreadsheets in braille. Hable introduces tactile sticker sheets for household interfaces, personal items, and braille labelling. Ravencourt presents talking watches, talking clocks, healthcare devices, keyboards, and a radio that speaks station names aloud. These are product conversations, but they stay close to everyday use. The show also covers RNIB itself. In the customer update format, Simon Antrobus discusses RNIB’s work across the four nations and why support cannot be treated as one-size-fits-all. Civic access gets the same careful treatment. An episode on the Welsh 2026 elections explains registration, postal and proxy votes, polling-station support, constituency changes, and the new voting system. Arts coverage brings a different texture. Reviews of audio described theatre consider performance, story, staging, and the experience of access inside the production. Conversations with disabled and neurodivergent creatives look at acting, writing, creative audio description, consultancy, and the practical shape of freelance work. RNIB Connect is calm, informative, and interview-led. It does not turn accessibility into abstraction. It stays with tools, places, rules, people, and the details that let blind and partially sighted listeners navigate public life with more context.
Made for: RNIB Connect is for blind and partially sighted listeners, families, access professionals, arts workers, and anyone following practical accessibility in the UK. It especially suits people who want clear information about technology, voting, theatre, and RNIB activity.
What sets it apart: The show combines hands-on product reporting, public information, arts criticism, and RNIB organisational updates in one feed. Its strength is specificity: devices are described, support is explained, and access is discussed through real use cases.
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
RNIB Connect Radio covers a Birds of Paradise production that puts sex, disability, and audio description at the center.
RNIB Connect Radio talks through We Indulge In, a bit of roleplay, a Birds of Paradise theatre piece about sex and disability. The focus stays on access work, especially audio description, and on keeping the performers' own language, breath, movement, and feeling intact instead…
Ira Glass frames weekly theme-driven segments spanning family secrets to Portland's protest conflict.
Shankar Vedantam unpacks the psychology behind relationships, careers, and money through researcher interviews.
David McRaney interviews researchers on cognitive bias, motivated reasoning, and why minds change.
Ryan Holiday pairs daily Stoic lessons with long-form guest conversations at his Texas bookstore.
NHPR's Jason Moon investigates the Bear Brook barrel murders and a New Hampshire wrongful-conviction case.
RNIB CEO Simon Antrobus discusses the charity's financial planning challenges at the start of the new fiscal year.
This RNIB Connect Radio roundtable features three professionals from the Birds of Paradise theatre production 'We Indulge In, a bit of roleplay'.
Simon Antrobus, Chief Executive of RNIB, discusses his visits to different UK nations to understand and support blind and partially sighted people, emphasizing the need for tailored approaches across regions.
This episode features an audio described theatre review of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre's production of Andrea Levy's 'Small Island', focusing on its portrayal of Jamaican migrants and themes of belonging, love across cultures, and the Windrush story.
This episode provides essential voting information for blind and partially sighted individuals ahead of the 2026 Welsh Senate elections, covering registration, support, and the new proportional representation system.
Alice Christina Corrigan, a visually impaired and neurodivergent artist, discusses her multifaceted freelance career in the arts, including acting, writing, access consultancy, and founding La La Arts.
HMRC explains the child benefit rate rise, detailing what child benefit is, its financial and non-financial components like state pension credits and automatic national insurance numbers for children, and encouraging families to check eligibility.
This episode explores the revival of neighbourly relationships in the UK, featuring research insights from an evolutionary anthropologist and a representative from the Nextdoor app on how remote work and economic factors are driving increased community reliance and connection.
This episode discusses the Linbury Prize exhibition at the National Theatre and its accessibility features using NaviLens codes for blind and partially sighted visitors.
RNIB's CEO discusses budget planning and financial challenges for charities, especially during the new financial year, emphasizing the importance of fundraising to support blind and partially sighted people.
This episode discusses RNIB Northern Ireland's campaigns team hosting a reception at Stormont to raise awareness about Charles Bonnet syndrome, a sight loss condition causing hallucinations, featuring guest speakers and personal stories of misdiagnosis.
This episode features an interview with Alan Atherton from the RNIB Welfare, Benefits and Tax team, discussing the support services available for navigating benefits, tax issues, and financial assistance for people with visual impairments.