The ADNA Presents Podcast
1) Story Over Sight: Rethinking Audio Description with Alison Eardley
What happens when we stop treating audio description as an afterthought, and start treating it as storytelling? In this episode of The ADNA Presents, Roy Samuelson sits down with researcher and acces...Show More
2) The ADNA Presents: Rebecca Odum
Audio description is crafted, refined, and checked with extraordinary care, with thanks to quality control specialists. On this episode of The ADNA Presents, Roy Samuelson interviews Rebecca Odom, a ...Show More
3) Why Bob Bergen Endorsed Roy Samuelson for Performer Governor
In this special episode of The ADNA Presents, we're doing something different. And deeply personal. Voiceover icon and longtime Television Academy leader Bob Bergen shares his journey advocating for v...Show More
4) The ADNA Presents: Tabitha Kenlon: Connection Beyond the Ocular
What happens when you start teaching for connection? In this conversation with Dr. Tabitha Kenlon, an English professor who teaches students across the world (including in Afghanistan), we explore wha...Show More
5) Layers of Storytelling: Horror, Sound, and the Power of Audio Description
Filmmaker Naomi Ross thought audio description was just an obligation - until it changed the way her whole family watches movies. Join Roy Samuelson as they dive into the power of sound, representatio...Show More
6) Bridget Interviews Roy part 3
In this final segment of Bridget's interview, Roy Samuelson pulls back the curtain on a years-long campaign to get audio description performers formally recognized by the Television Academy, a move th...Show More
7) Blind Joy, Real Stories, and Audio Description That Hits
A film about blindness that actually gets it right: Roy sits down with Tony Stephens of the American Foundation for the Blind to talk Possibilities, a powerful new doc that reclaims Helen Keller's leg...Show More
8) The ADNA Presents: SOVAS 2025
Think voice acting is just “reading into a mic”? Joan Baker once threw a creative director behind the booth. They sweated, stumbled, and left saying: “I had no idea this was so hard.” That's the point...Show More
9) The ADNA Presents: Paul Conley: Turning Possibility Into Power
What does hitting snooze have to do with solving a 75% unemployment rate for blind professionals? Everything. In this episode, Roy Samuelson sits down with Paul Conley, Executive Director of the TAD F...Show More
10) From Unicorn to Community: John Stark and the Rise of Blind Film Critics (John Stark Part 2)
In this episode, blind film critic John Stark shares his lifelong passion for movies and how it led him to watch and review over 500 films a year for more than two decades. From his early days reading...Show More