Tracks of My Life with Joanna Wood

Tracks of My Life is a show on RNIB Connect Radio presented and produced by Toby Davey where he invites a guest to take us on a journey through their life, sharing the tracks that mark important moments which bring back memories to them.

 

Their chosen tracks of their life might include the first track they can remember hearing, the first track they bought, a number of tracks that mark moments in their life and the final track, a track that they would like to pass on which might give people hope for the future.

 

In this trimmed down podcast version of Tracks of My Life Toby is joined by Joanna Wood, who in February 2021 took up the post of Chair of VocalEyes the national charity providing access to the arts through audio description for blind and partially sighted people.

 

Through Joanna’s Tracks of My Life we will take a journey from her early family life growing up in the south east of England, surprising herself, her family, and her school by getting into Cambridge to read History. Gaining a place in the Cambridge ladies crew for the 2005 Boat Race which was a bit of a bitter sweet moment for Joanna at the time.  

 

Joanna will then reflect on the time during the mid-2010s when she first had a detached retina in her left eye and then her right eye which started her sight loss journey. Then an encounter with audio description at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in 2017 which was a turning point in Joanna’s new visually impaired life.

 

You can catch the hour-long version of Tracks of My Life with Toby’s guest’s music tracks in full by tuning in to RNIB Connect Radio every Tuesday at 7pm, repeated on Thursday at 1pm and Sunday at 8pm.  


(Image shows a head and shoulders photograph of Joanna, a white woman in her mid-thirties with brown hair in a long bob, wearing a brown top, looking straight at the camera and smiling)