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Please read Chris’ bio for more information about him.

May 2022

20th May 2022

Podcast guest on Tales from the Animal Kingdom

February 2022

3rd February 2022

Feature by Fran Smith for Craft Courses.

January 2022

17th January 2022

https://twitter.com/bbc5live/status/1483061121598775296?s=20

16th January 2022

I don’t want my eyesight back by BBC East Midlands

October 2021

18th October 2021

How YouTube helped the Blind Woodturner hone his craft

8th October 2021

Turning passion into fine art by Google.

August 2021

Interview by Catherine Roth in Derbyshire Life magazine.

21st August 2021

Talking to Chris Birks on BBC Radio Derby. Interview starts around 2:29.

1st August 2021

Blind Ambition, BBC2

30th May 2021

Feature by Derbyshire Live

26th May 2021

Article in Ashbourne Telegraph

24th May 2021

Article in Derby Telegraph

9th May 2021

Featured on Sunday Morning Stories

29th March 2021

Guest on the MyFinder Podcast

16th April 2020

A film inspired by Kitty O’Meara’s poem ‘In the Time of Pandemic’ – created by And the People Stayed Home.

27th February 2020

The Blind Woodturner – A Short Film by Photography By Anderson.

To use this video or share on social media, please contact Photography By Anderson.

17th February 2020

Interview with Victoria Galligan from Ucan2 Magazine.

31st January 2020

Interview with Val Dickinson on Tameside Radio’s The Business Link podcast.

6th November 2019

Interview with Holly Hartley on The Rediscovery of Me Life Stories podcast.

15th September 2019

Interviewed for Makers Monday with Gil Poznanski.

4th September 2019

Feature in Hereford Times about ShedFest.

3rd September 2019

Footage from Shedfest 2019

14th August 2019

Featured in an article about Be My Eyes by Bird Lovegod in the Yorkshire Post.

1st August 2019

Featured by Henshaws as part of their Knowledge Village

July 2019

Me and My Workshop feature in The Woodworker and Good Woodworking Magazine, July 2019.

19th May 2019

North Lincolnshire Woodturning Association, all day seminar 2019 write up.

28th April 2019

Makers International Podcast

23rd April 2019

Interview by BBC Radio 4 In Touch programme.

The full length version of the In Touch interview.

4th April 2019

Featured by What3Words

Keep on turning! 🕶
Meet Chris, aka the @blindwoodturner, he incorporates what3words into the delivery process of his #woodturning business. 🌲 Have you thought about sharing your business’s 3 word address? pic.twitter.com/qHTYX6MeRm
— what3words (@what3words) April 4, 2019

11th March 2019

Featured by Fine Woodworking Magazine

1st March 2019

Interview with Liz Hey on the Business Programme for Kirklees TV.

29th January 2019

“I don’t want my eyesight back” film featured on Twitter by the BBC.

This is incredible. After losing his sight, Christopher Fisher listened to over 600 hours of YouTube tutorials to become a skilled woodturner. 🙌pic.twitter.com/xxSv0LCkDf
— BBC (@BBC) January 29, 2019

2nd January 2019

Interview by Axminster Tools and Machinery (text and video)

25th December 2018

The nice people at Reflex Creative very graciously designed and printed the Blind Woodturner 2018 Christmas card.

3rd December 2018

Featured in a film by Shira Pinson for BBC Reel – I don’t want my eyesight back.

Article by Able Magazine for International Day of Persons with Disabilities.

1st November 2018

Coombe Abbey Woodturners write up.

7th October 2018

Cheshire and North Wales Woodturners Association write up.

4th October 2018

Cover and feature in Woodturning Magazine

6th September 2018

Speaking with Allan Russell and RNIB Connect Radio.

19th August 2018

BBC1 Sunday Morning Live

1st August 2018

Featured in Community Stories by Be My Eyes.

24th June 2018

Episode 240 – Makers International Podcast

7th June 2018

Speaker at 7 Stories.

25th May 2018

Announcement of my sponsorship with Axminster Tools & Machinery.

16th May 2018

Featured by Jimmy Diresta on his Makers Central video.

28th March 2018

My story, shared by Be My Eyes.

12th March 2018

Filmed by the Press Association for YouTube, listed on Getty Images, a longer version of the video below.

Filmed by the Press Association for YouTube, featured by the Independent

The video was also featured by BT.com, MSN, Yahoo News, courier.co.uk, Dundee Evening Telegraph, The Press and Journal, Shropshire Star, Express and Star, Aberdeen Evening Express, Belfast Telegraph (Northern Ireland), The Irish News, independent.ie.