Tracks of My Life with David Woodbridge

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 Vision Australia’s Senior Adaptive Technology Consultant and all-round tech guru David Woodbridge.

We will start David’s Tracks of my Life journey with a Simon and Garfunkel track that takes David back to life in his early twenties working as a Social Worker around direct drug and Alcohol crisis counselling which may have been a lot to take on at such an early age. A job that he was in a way pushed into as a good career for a blind person because all blind people are good at listening! Social work at the time was a job that gave David  real job satisfaction as he did hear back from a couple of his clients who told him how much his counselling had helped them to turn their life around. 

   

We will then move to the early 80s with the theme music to the TV show Knight Rider although it was more of the technology that the car Kit had rather than the acting that impressed David at the time. It was around this time when David started getting into working with technology through a nun that he met at work who used to work on a computer that she labeled Moses and she would say to David let’s go up and chat with Moses! She also encouraged David to do what ever he wanted to do in life which  inspired him to make a career change from social work to technology; which he had always wanted to get in to before he took the social work route.

We then have a track that is for younger children and their parents or just people like David with a real passion for storytelling and making stories up for their children. Followed by a track that is dedicated to his second wife with David telling the story of how they first met on a commuter train late one night, not quite Brief Encounter but very much a chance meeting that was slightly helped by David’s Guide Dog at the time.

Before we come to David’s final track we first have a track that very much reflects his out look on life and maybe a view that has been influenced by him becoming a Grandad. Then a track that will certainly spark people’s imagination and maybe make them think about how inaccessible the world can be but with a bit of thought and maybe just thinking for a moment the world could become a better place for everyone. 

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.

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