Tur de Lima
Musician Lucho Hernandez is visually impaired, but is able to "see" his native city, Lima, Peru, simply by listening carefully.
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Musician Lucho Hernandez is visually impaired, but is able to "see" his native city, Lima, Peru, simply by listening carefully.
Join Lucho for a walking tour through Lima, while he muses about the modernization of the city and points out some of the aural details that reveal Lima's true personality -- from the activity of a typical marketplace to the patterns and rhythms of the traffic racing by.
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Jesse Hardman is a journalist with more than ten years experience in public radio. He is currently a journalism fellow based in Peru through the Knight Center for International Journalism. Jesse's work centers around the establishment of a more capable and independent press in Peru. He recently completed a semester as a professor at the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences. As a reporter he has filed stories from places as diverse as Mexico, New York, Hawaii, and Gary. His work has been heard everywhere from All Things Considered to This American Life.
Lucho Hernandez is a Lima-based musician, writer, and sociologist. He plays piano professionally at a number of Lima restaraunts and has produced a few CDs of his work. Lucho also writes a column for a local Lima paper about issues related to disabilities. Some of Lucho's more exciting adventures include writing a book about his experiences, running for political office, and playing in a band. He is currently researching how to make the Internet more accessible to the blind.