Tracks of My Life with Selina Mills

Episode 50,   Dec 19, 2023, 07:00 PM

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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 those tracks that mark important moments in their life which bring back treasured memories to them.

Their chosen tracks might include the first track they can remember hearing, the first track they bought, more tracks that mark other memorable moments in their life with the final track being a track that they would like to pass on that might give people hope for the future or inspire them.

In this trimmed down podcast version of Tracks of My Life Toby is joined by Selina Mills, award-winning Journalist, Broadcaster and Author of ‘Life Unseen - A story of Blindness’’ which was published by Bloomsbury in the summer of 2023.

Selina’s Tracks of My Life journey will start with an early introduction to the music of Mozart and posters of Classical Musicians and Conductors on her bedroom walls.

Then to time studying in America and a track by a band made up of fellow undergraduates with lyrics that did change Selina’s outlook on life at the time.

After graduating from university in America, Selina moved to Rome and secured her first job teaching English to Italian Journalists which lead to Selina becoming a Journalist too. 

Living in Rome for four years gave Selina the opportunity to hear great music being performed all over the city in churches and concert halls with wonderful choral singing too. 

Before we come to Selina’s final track we will hear a great country music song which is dedicated to her late farther who did encouraged Selina to write ‘Life Unseen - A story of Blindness’. 

You will be able to hear the full hour long version of Selina’s Tracks of My Life on RNIB Connect Radio, Thursday 21 December at 1pm and again on Christmas Eve, Sunday 24 December at 7pm.

To find out more about ‘Life Unseen - A History of Blindness’ by Selina Mills do visit the following pages of the Bloomsbury website - https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/life-unseen-9781848856905/


Image shows a photograph of Selina wearing a black top with a red and white pattern on it and pearl earrings with a bookshelf and a framed picture in the background.