AIRS Life-Skills PodCasts
These Podcast series' all can teach you valuable skills that can make your life easier and more meaningful.
The table below has a row for each Podcast series. The link in the left column takes you to the web page for the Series.
| Series Title | Series Description |
|---|---|
| Articles From the AARP Magazine | Thom Miller reads you bi-weekly articles from your complete guide to retirement planning and living, The American Association of Retired Persons Magazine. |
| Accessible Book Reviews | Each week Ann-Marie Lariccia reads you reviews of selected books available from The National Library Service For The Blind and Physically Handicapped. |
| Articles From the Atlantic Monthly | Gary MacFadden selects and reads articles from The Atlantic Monthly, America's foremost source of information on business, politics, culture, technology, food, national and international affairs. |
| Advertisements From Your Favorite Stores | Max, Allen, Joe and Julia read weekly advertisements from Ralphs, Vons, Sprout's, The Valley Produce Market and Fry's Electronics. We also read the Fearless Flyers from Trader Joe's as they come out. Ads are posted in plenty of time for you to take advantage of the cost savings and the dates for which the prices are valid are clearly stated. Live better while you spend less! |
| Better Homes and Gardens Podcasts | Enhance your domestic bliss with these articles from Better Homes and Gardens Magazine read to you by Beverly Ann Astley. |
| Blind Cool Tech Podcasts | Larry Skutchan's brainchild, Blind Cool Tech, reviews and evaluates hardware and software technology of interest to the blind and vision-impaired community. Learn More at BlindCoolTech.com. |
| Braille Institute Podcasts | From time-to-time the Braille Institute produces a recorded seminar or special event that has lasting value to our listeners. When that happens, the Institute makes the recordings available to AIRS so that they can continue to serve the community. In the past these have included descriptions of the Tournament of Roses, the Braille Challenge and seminars on advances in vision. |
| Business Week Podcasts | Follow the fascinating world of high finance and find out what makes the worlds business machinery tick with these articles from Business Week read to you by Eila Ulyett. |
| Car Talk From NPR | AIRS-LA provides these links to NPR's hilarious weekly radio series "Car Talk" with Tom and Ray Magliozzi. |
| Consumer Reports | Comprehensive advice on anything that's worth buying from the most authoritative, unbiased source of information for the intelligent consumer - Consumer Reports. |
| Cooking In The Dark | Cooking In The Dark is the brainchild of Dale Campbell, of BlindMiceMart.com. Each show leads you through preparation of a delicious meal that's easy and fun to prepare. The preparation is spiced with running commentary and repartee between Dale and his companion, Cheryl and includes a discussion of labor saving kitchen devices and techniques for the visually impaired. |
| Cooks Illustrated Articles | Cook's Illustrated is dedicated to finding the best methods for preparing foolproof home-cooked meals. Unlike some glossy cooking magazines, it's staffed with cooks and editors - not food stylists. Their test kitchen - in which they film the public television show, "America's Test Kitchen" - has three dozen full-time test cooks whose job is testing and retesting recipes 20, 30, sometimes 50 times until they can offer you a recipe that will work every time. Not only the HOW - but the WHY of cooking - read to you by Bryan Saulsbury! |
| For Family and Friends of the Vision Impaired | This series of podcasts brings together a variety of information designed to help the blind or vision-impaired person's support group. Such articles will enable parents, friends and relatives to understand and support the challenges which must be faced and to appreciate the joys and rewards. |
| Foundation Fighting Blindness Podcasts | The Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB), has an extensive program of seminars and special events that benefits our listeners far beyond the day of the event. Recently, the Foundation has made recordings of medical seminars on vision loss and their fantastically successful VISIONWALK fundraising event available to AIRS. |
| Forbes Magazine Podcasts | Enjoy articles from Forbes, a leading source for reliable business news, financial information, politics, and economics. Your host: Kerri Parr. |
| Freedom Scientific's FSCast | FSCast is Freedom Scientific's monthly podcast. Hosted by Jonathan Mosen, Vice President of Blindness Hardware Product Management, FSCast features news, interviews, and product demonstrations relating to Freedom Scientific products. FSCast is a great way to make the most of the products you have as well as learning about what's new and what's around the corner. |
| Good Housekeeping Magazine Podcasts | Judy Rubino reads you her weekly selections from Good Housekeeping Magazine. Find out how to run an efficient, comfortable home by listening to a variety of timely articles on subjects ranging from saving money on common expenditures to keeping kids from tracking sand through the house. |
| Guide Dogs For the Blind Podcast | Guide Dogs for the Blind, a national non-profit organization, provides trained mobility dogs to qualified blind and visually impaired people free-of-charge. AIRS-LA provides these links to G.D.B. podcasts that will describe the benefits and joy of having a guide dog. |
| Ladies Home Journal Podcasts | Alice Baptiste selects and reads you articles on food, health, relationships, games and all other aspects of domestic life from this leading family magazine. |
| Low Vision Technology | Dr. Bill Takeshita tells you how to get the most from PC's and other gadgetry that can help those with low vision get along. |
| Money Magazine | Bob Jordan selects and reads articles from current issues of Money, a Time Inc. personal finance magazine. Since 1972, its articles have covered the gamut of personal finance topics from investing, saving, retirement and taxes to family finance issues like paying for college, credit, career and home improvement. |
| Oprah Magazine | Prem Kishore reads selections from Oprah Magazine, your route to inspiration, guidance and entertainment created by America's most influential woman. |
| Parents Magazine | Liz Akbar selects articles about pregnancy, babies, toddlers, preschoolers, big kids, teens, family life, family fun, food and recipes. Sit back, relax and take a mini-vacation from the little ones while you learn a few tips and tricks that will make your lives more enjoyable and fulfilling. |
| Readers Digest | In this series of podcasts, Chuck Burke and his crew of professional voiceover artists from all over the United States and Canada read you the best of the articles in each months Reader's Digest Magazine. |
| Real Simple Magazine | Melissa Baird reads you selections from her favorite magazine, Real Simple. It's about food, home organization, beauty and style, life and soul, celebrations and all that makes life worthwhile. |
| Redbook Magazine | For nearly 100 years, Redbook has been providing young women with timely and relevant advice. Non-fiction articles explore social issues, parenting, sex, marriage, money, health and psychology while book excerpts and short stories from today's best writers inspire and entertain. Voiceover artist Donna Reed presents her Redbook selections for your listening pleasure. |
| Second Vision | Second Vision host, Kristin Macdonald, spent many years working in production for the legendary Aaron Spelling and E. Duke Vincent of Spelling Television. She is partially sighted as a result of retinitis pigmentosa, but manages to interview scores of people who have found amazing ways to overcome personal injuries and conditions, as well as leaders in medicine and scientific research, actors and inspirational speakers. Tune in as she applies her unique perspective to her guests' life-experiences. |
| Sound Solutions | Braille Institute and AIRS-LA present a series of practical and inspirational messages to help you cope with vision loss. |
| Tech For Impaired Vision | Listen to Bruce Wallick's selections of current technical topics and trends and stories of inspiration and success for those with vision impairments. |
| Vision Loss - How Others Have Coped With It | This podcast series is intended to provide a support system for those learning to cope with their vision-impairment by presenting success stories and helpful hints. Each podcast either describes a success or includes tips for fighting your demons. |
| Vision News | Podcasts bringing you news from the leading service organizations in the impaired-vision community. |
| Vision Talk | Dr. Bill Takeshita interviews guests expert in such topics as medicine, assistive technology, psychiatric counseling and practical advice for the vision-impaired community. |
| Voter Information | In this series of podcasts, we read you official voter information pamphlets and other materials to allow you to exercise your right as a citizen to cast your vote and your duty to make it an informed vote. |
| What's New in Vision Loss Treatment and Diagnosis | Dr. Bill Takeshita, an optometrist, AIRS board member and AIRS interface to other Organizations such as The Low-Vision Institute and The Braille Institute, selects the articles for this series from a variety of trade journals and seminars. |
| Womans Day Magazine | Ludim Sanchez reads you selections on healthy recipes, relationship advice and DIY home decor ideas from her favorite magazine, Womans Day. |
Let's Have Your Ideas!
If you'd like to see us read your favorite, or if you'd not only like to suggest a PodCast series, but help produce it as well, send us an e-mail with your ideas and intentions.
