Blind Man Roams the Globe: Rio

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

When Peter White jets, sails or walks into a new city, it is the sounds, not the sights, which assail him. He sets off to Rio on the eve of the Paralympics. In Rio he finds a city poised with excitement as the Paralympics are set to begin. Like some of the arriving athletes, he is forced to navigate a strange environment without being able to see his way around.

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0:00.0	Well I've made it out of the airport and what I normally do when I go to a big city is
0:08.8	head for the metro because I like them and they give me a good clue to where I'm going but I've been advised
0:14.8	that buses are the thing here in Rio so I've headed to a bus shelter and I'm hoping something
0:22.4	will come along to take me down to my hotel on Copacupana Beach.
0:27.0	Now this is a totally new experience now. I haven't been to Rio before. All I really know about it is it's
0:36.8	busy. They love football there and some people warn you it's dangerous but then some people warn you that
0:45.2	everywhere is dangerous. So I'm not taking that too seriously.
0:48.8	Yet. It's a very big gap. It's a casual.
0:55.0	There is a step.
0:57.0	It's a little bit.
0:58.0	It's a chance.
0:59.0	Right, right.
1:00.0	Yes, right.
1:01.0	Boy.
1:02.0	Do you try? Doesn't go.
1:03.0	Right.
1:05.0	Jams the whole 3-A bus system here. I'm not so I'm not to say I've never seen a turnstile on a bus before.
1:18.0	That's a proper turnstile, I could turnstile into a football failure.
1:21.0	There it goes.
1:22.0	And of course needless to say I managed to
1:23.8	sham it so that meant that nobody else could get on behind me. There was a fair
1:28.8	amount of chaos. I suppose it's all part of the the football psychology of Rio but you have to have a
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