We begin by previewing next week’s podcast, a special looking at Apple’s big reveal on 7 September. For the first time, most of the discussion is occurring not over a feature Apple is adding, but one it is taking away.

Can you function effectively in a busy job without Braille? One of our listeners takes issue with a comment made on a previous episode of the podcast.

Our featured guest Gary O’donoghue’s voice and face is well-known in Britain. A political journalist who happens to be blind, Gary talks to us about his life and career, what it’s like to be a blind guy who does TV, the extraordinary political season in the US where he’s now based, and some differences he’s noticed living as a blind person in the US versus the UK.