On the latest episode of Evie Roberts podcast ‘Talking the Dark‘, the Ballakermeen student speaks to household name, Stephen Fry.
In this enlightening episode the pair cover Fry’s childhood, Blackadder, Harry Potter and mental health.
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).
Talking in the Dark
The fourteen year old has a genetic condition called bilateral anopthalmia which has meant that she has been blind since birth, during the a chat last year to Energy FM Evie explained 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 said 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 podcast and star guests
In a relatively short space of time Evie has already had some incredible guests on her podcast, including Fearne Cotton; BBC’s chief political news correspondent for North America, Gary O’Donoghue and now, Stephen Fry.
None of this would’ve been possible without Evie’s drama teacher, Ste Craige, who came up with the idea of a podcast.
Ste has played an integral part supporting Evie with the podcast, and helped the youngster on her way, to what I for one do not doubt, a path of stardom.
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