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- Ian Hamilton is a blind BBC presenter and very well-known Scottish documentary maker, who joined BBC Scotland News in 2000.
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In April 2017, completely blind Ian Hamilton joined the crew of Lord Nelson, a 55-metre sailing ship, crewed by a mixture of the disabled and the able-bodied.
In 2017 completely blind Ian joined the crew of The Lord Nelson. This was a 55-metre sailing ship, crewed by a mixture of the disabled and the able-bodied. For Ian it was the voyage of a lifetime!
- What Is Your Sight Loss condition?
- Is Sight Loss Part of The Act?
- Do You Miss Visual Cues from Your Audiences?
- How Did You Get Into Stand-Up Comedy?
- Perceptions of Bookers?
- Ambitions For Future?
- What Were Your Comedy Influences?
- Favourite Joke?
Jamie- " I began to lose my sight to the degenerative condition retinal pigmentosa in my teens. I have very low vision now and use a stick. The New York Times ran a poll on what is the worst thing that can ever happen to you? And blind won, it knocked everything else out of the park. It thrashed all the other disabilities and being from Edinburgh. ...
Jamie- "Comedy is holding a mirror up to society, and my mirror has the big face of a blind guy in it. This means my blindness does run through my comedy because that’s the way I see the world – not very well! I hope my comedy is accessible to all, however. There’s a lot of talk at the moment about people not being allowed to say anything anymore. ...
Jamie- "I can get audio cues like laughter. The more of that the better! If it’s heckling, I don’t get much of that. There are acts that feed off shouting by the audience. I love it when people join in but I don’t really get people trying to disrupt me. While I’m up there I don’t think I’m missing out on much with regard to visual cues. I know from...
Jamie- "I'd ended up in corporate finance down in London, for which I am truly and eternally sorry. I was never very good at it, and I never really liked it. And quite close to where we worked there was a club called The Comedy Café and I ended up there one night with some colleagues. And I thought, I like this. So I did a few wee open-mike nights ...
Jamie- "As with everything at the moment, folk are just much more aware of disabilities. The funniest thing I sometimes experience is promoters not realising how obstacle-strewn the green rooms are. Before I arrive they think it’s all clear, then I’ll walk in and they’ll start to notice everything. This sends them into an apology-heavy, panicked cl...
Jamie- "My ambitions are just to keep enjoying doing more and more new things. I recorded an episode of 'QI' in the spring that is coming out later this year. I just finished filming the second series of 'The Scotts' up in Glasgow. I’m currently writing the second series of my own Radio 4 show ‘Life on the Blink’. And, of course, I'm readying mysel...
Jamie- "I’ve just always loved comedy in all its forms. Everything from the Carry On films to stand-ups like Jack Dee, Billy Connelly, Lee Evans and Eddie Izzard. All sounds a bit male, stale and pale, but that was what was about in the 80s and 90s. Now that everything is much more open, lovely and diverse, I love acts like Lost Voice guy, Zoe Lyon...
Jamie- "I could tell you my favourite joke but it’s absolutely filthy and I know the readers of RNIB communications are an upstanding bunch so I don’t want to be cancelled by a sight charity!" Tom- "The one that’s coming to mind right now, is my friend Chris Turner’s joke: ‘Never apologise, never explain… Sorry, that’s my motto’. That one always ma...
Feb 10, 2011 · BBC Scotland TV and radio reporter Ian Hamilton is totally blind and got his first guide dog 28 years ago. In October last year he was introduced to his new dog, a gentle German Shepherd...
Journalist and blind person Ian Hamilton goes back in time to find out how the thousands of soldiers who lost their sight in the First World War changed the ...
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Jul 27, 2015 · If you bring up a game design problem related to disability on Twitter, there's a high chance Ian Hamilton will pop up to advise on a solution. It isn't just a job to him—it's a mission to...
Feb 25, 2019 · Ian Hamilton, himself completely blind, investigates this little-known sight problem. He asks if our lack of understanding about vision means that some children are being misdiagnosed with...
