Ballakermeen student, Evie Roberts has added another star to her impressive podcast line up.
Her latest guest on ‘Talking in the Dark’ has been to the ‘World’s End’ and back, both in the literal and the figurative sense, would be an understatement.
This week Evie welcomed Darren Edwards to the podcast, he is a record-breaking disabled adventurer, inspirational speaker, and author.
He has a life-story of truly epic proportions and one that details great physical endurance, incredible mental fortitude, and ultimately, life-affirming triumph and joy.
During this episode Evie learns of Darren’s life changing accident whilst climbing the ‘World’s End’ rock face in North Wales, his recovery and rehabilitation afterwards, and the ground-breaking expeditions he has undertaken since.
Evie Roberts
To say Evie is your average podcast host is doing her a massive injustice. Not only has she an exceptionally engaging voice, she’s a talented musician and plays the flute for the Manx Youth Orchestra along with being a budding horse rider with Riding for the Disabled (RDA).
RDA? Well, Evie is blind. The fourteen year old who attends Ballakermeen High School has a genetic condition called bilateral anopthalmia which has meant that she has been blind since birth, during the interview Evie explains in her own humorous way what the condition is:
“I have the eye socket, but when it came to developing the actual eye and optic nerve my body went no not going to do that, can’t be bothered. So instead I wear prosthetic eyes.”
Evie hopes that the podcast helps remove the stigma around all disabilities, she told me that as a blind person she finds that people can sometimes be scared to talk to her for fear of saying or doing the wrong thing.
The youngster has already had stars such as Fearne Cotton and the legendary Stephen Fry on as guests.
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