The amazing story of the blind photographer

Perhaps the news that Radio 5 live will be the only BBC station (under the new broadcasting rights agreements) to broadcast ‘live’ golf will ensure that its audience stays above the six million listeners now dreamt of by its controller Jonathan Wall as the magic number he needs for the network to stay buoyant. (Figures announced last week showed that 5 live has lost 10 per cent of its audience after a radical shake-up of its presenting team, losing especially Shelagh Fogarty and Victoria Derbyshire, which had the knock-on effect of turning it even more blokey.) At first the idea sounds absurd —golf on radio. It’s such a slow-paced game, I’ve never been able to watch it on TV, let alone bothered to find out what’s happening at Fort Augustus or Turnberry by tuning in on air. But, then, listening to cricket is pretty off-the-wall, let alone football, tennis, rugby, swimming, horse racing.