Tracks of My Life with Kirin Saeed

Tracks of My Life is a show on RNIB Connect Radio presented and produced by Toby Davey where he invites a guest to take us on a journey through their life, sharing the tracks that mark important moments which bring back memories to them.

Their chosen tracks of their life might include the first track they can remember hearing, the first track they bought, a number of tracks that mark moments in their life and the final track, a track that they would like to pass on which might give people hope for the future.

In this trimmed down podcast version of Tracks of My Life Toby is joined by Kirin Saeed. Kirin is a blind actor, activist and trainer, who in October 2020 with all the many Covid restrictions in place, put on her own play ‘Crossing care’ all about the relationship between a blind person and their support worker.  

Through Kirin’s Tracks of My Life we are taken on a journey from early school days at Chorley Wood College for visually impaired girls, watching 1970’s science fiction TV shows and life as a young Asian teenager growing up in the early 1980s. Then to Kirin moving in to her first flat as an independent young woman in her early 20s.

Kirin then reflects on her life in London and Scotland with her late husband Sandy who sadly passed away in 2014, and her life now on her own in Edinburgh where Kirin feels very much welcomed as an English woman in Scotland.

Please note Kirin Saeed’s Tracks of My Life was first broadcast on New Year’s Eve 2020. 

You can catch the hour-long version of Tracks of My Life with Toby’s guest’s music tracks in full by tuning in to RNIB Connect Radio every Tuesday at 7pm, repeated on Thursday at 1pm and Sunday at 8pm


(Image shows Kirin wearing a red-brown dress and leaning on a chair holding a white cane, in front of some large windows with sunny, out of focus greenery behind her)