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Peter White was the second blind son born to sighted parents just after the war. His education took place before the days of integrated schooling for all (for which he is extremely grateful) and he describes with great honesty and humour the peculiar regimes of the special boarding schools he attended. Accepted into university he found the world outside more difficult to adapt to, but by a combination of despair and determination he forced his way into radio broadcasting and is now a senior correspondent with the BBC. He portrays his experiences without a trace of sentimentality but with humour and passion. This is not a book for the politically correct, but will leave its readers with a sense of purpose and achievement.

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'Entertaining, warm, humorous autobiography from a man with strong views who turns many misfortunes against himself in the telling.' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Peter White is a remarkable man who, as the second blind child of sighted parents, faced the horrors of special schools--the only real option in the 1950s for children like him--with stubborn independent streak which developed further as he grew into a strong and determined adult who refuses to let his disability interfere with his ambition. Peter White is now one of the BBC's leading correspondents, specialising in disability affairs, and is his voice is familiar in millions of households across the country. But his rise to the hallowed corridors of the BBC was never straightforward, and here in his autobiography See It My Way, he tells his story with enviable panache that one minute has the reader choking with laughter and the next squirming at the injustice of it all. From his early days with his family in the sheltered, love-filled home which instilled a confidence and security that has stayed with him throughout his life, through to the depression that dogged him at university and forced him to drop out, and his stoic recognition that he had to somehow make a living in the world of the sighted, Peter White's determination, stubbornness and wry sense of humour shines through almost as brightly as his love for his family. As simple and no-nonsense as the man himself, See It My Way is a painfully honest autobiography written with passion and humour and sprinkled with cringe-making sarcasms and scathing observations on disability that will cut normal people to the quick.' - Susan Harrison, AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEW

Born blind, the author was lovingly cared for in his childhood, but when he left school and encountered for the first time the problems of coping with life in a sighted world, he was understandably daunted. For a while it seemed that he might go under; but he recovered from his depression, argued his way into a job in radio, and is now a BBC correspondent with wide experience both in radio and television. Humorous and entirely devoid of self-pity, his autobiography is at once heartwarming and worrying, showing both the positive and negative side of our attitude to the disabled. (Kirkus UK)

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Peter White is the BBC's Disabilty Affairs Correspondent and a frequent broadcaster on Radio 4 on other issues. Married with three (sighted) children, he lives in Winchester, but travels widely throughout the country

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