Studio 1

Never Seen Star Wars

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Episode notes

Matthew Layton and Sam Rickard present Studio 1 - Vision Australia Radio’s weekly look at life from a low vision and blind point of view.

This week:

As the rest of the world celebrates May the Fourth - Star Wars Day - Studio 1 tries to find out why George Lucas’s supposed masterpiece is the blind community’s least favourite film.

To this end, we are conducting an experiment.

We have sent each of our two victims… sorry, subjects (neither of whom have seen Star Wars) audio-only copies of the original Star Wars movie to see what they make of it.

Mick Zannis is the most-capped player in Australian Blind Cricket history. Mick has sat through Star Wars in the past and it never did anything for him, but we’ve sent him Disney's new audio-described version of the film.

Jason Gipps is one of the team of dedicated people who keep Vision Australia Radio on the air. We’ve sent him an audio-only version of the film to see what a sighted person makes of the experience without the usual visual aids.

Mick also tells us how to do a COVID RAT test without the benefit of sight and Jason gives us a rundown on what’s coming up in the near-future here on Vision Australia Radio.

If you’ve been affected by any of the issues in this week’s show - or if there’s something you feel we need to talk about on future shows, please do get in touch.

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[PHOTO CAPTION: The opening scene of Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope in which ”...suspended in the infinite void of outer space, words in giant YELLOW letters roll out from underneath us..."] 

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