Radio review: Blind Man's Bete Noire; Jeremy Vine

In Blind Man's Bete Noire (Radio 4) Peter White explores "the rather less obvious things" he hates about blindness. Today's programme was about his aversion to the countryside and he paired up with Janet Street-Porter for a rural walk. Almost instantly, the programme slipped into unintentional comedy as the duo rubbed each other up the wrong way. White hates noise in the countryside, and was stuck with a woman who bellows. "I TOO trod in cow POO," she roared. "You can't 'ave it BOTH ways." She, meanwhile, won't hear of being daunted by obstacles. "These somewhat childlike aversions" was how she described White's objections to the countryside. By the end, she was even blunter in her inimitable way, but she was spot on. "We are both pretty short-tempered," she snapped, "and we don't want to listen to the other person's point of view." Living with disability also featured on Jeremy Vine (Radio 2). We heard from Andrew McDonald, diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in his 40s. A listener, Kay, called in to share her similar experience. "I'm trying to hold the phone and it's so shaky I can hardly hold it," she said. You could hear her clinging on to her old sense of self. "I tell myself I'm still a designer and a professor," she explained. Moving stuff.