Blind Man Roams the Globe: Washington DC

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Peter White explores the American capital, Washington DC, through the sounds of the city. He finds a city struggling to develop a transport system, which properly caters for all communities and he explores the gulf between the well off and those living hard at heel.

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0:00.0	9 out of 10 people coming into or leaving
0:02.0	D.C.
0:05.0	right now, we're checking back for 79.
0:08.0	It'll be a minute.
0:09.0	9 out of 10 people coming into or leaving Washington, D.C DC do it by car. But I'm the 10th. Blind people tend to like to travel by train.
0:19.0	It's not a good idea for us to be driving our cars around and here I am in Union Station, the largest
0:25.8	station in the United States trying to get a sound picture of this most
0:32.0	pivotal town or city in the world really.
0:35.0	So how do I get that sound picture?
0:37.0	I have to talk to people and there are people just over there
0:41.0	who I might interrupt.
0:50.0	They go that way. You go straight ahead that way. Are you catching trains here or are you working here?
0:56.0	I came from a New York, a cargo bus over here.
1:00.0	Yeah, I've just only just arrived in DC.
1:03.0	Go downtown and tour down there.
1:07.0	You get good food to eat and all that.
1:10.0	I'm a child.
1:11.0	Museums and all that kind of stuff. And what do you think the best museum is for me?
1:15.0	Oh, the Wax Museum.
1:17.0	They got a museum where they...
1:20.0	He's blind.
1:21.0	He can't see any of that.
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