Making The Arts Accessible Podcast
1) 13 - Tim Yates
Tim Yates leads the Research and Innovation Programme at Drake Music, an organisation dedicated to helping musicians with disabilities discover or co-design instruments that work for them. Collaborati...Show More
2) 12 - James Bottrill
This is a detailed and comprehensive chat about the technology used in theatres for assistive listening and audio description. James has a huge amount of knowledge and experience in this area, and we...Show More
3) 11 - Paul Adams
Paul Adams is currently Access Project Manager for The Royal Ballet and Opera in London and has been there just over a year. Before that he worked in Singapore, and has spent his career in creative l...Show More
4) 10 - Tom and Caroline Maley
In this episode, recorded at Tom and Caroline's house, we have a great discussion about audio description. Tom is a general all-round arts-lover and has been blind all his life so has used audio...Show More
5) 09 - Ben Wilson
Ben Wilson is an actor, theatre-maker, audio description consultant and recently became Extant's new trainee Artistic Director for 23-24. We have a chat about all these things including how he c...Show More
6) 08 - Emily Malen
In this episode, I'm talking to Emily Malen who is Front of House and Access Development Manager at Theatre Royal Nottingham and Royal Concert Hall. What she stresses is the importance of listen...Show More
7) 07 - Jonathan Suffolk
I talk to Jonathan Suffolk, Director of Production at The Curve, Leicester who headed up the team at The National Theatre who developed their smart caption glasses. These augmented reality glasses pr...Show More
8) 06 - Hannah Thompson
In this episode, I talk to Hannah Thompson, Professor of French and Critical Disability studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, who describes herself as partially blind and is an expert in au...Show More
9) 05 - Dan Parr
In this conversation, I hear from actor Dan Parr about how he first got into audio describing whilst performing in Road at Leeds Playhouse, and how he and three other actors from that show have gone o...Show More
10) 04 - Jonathan Penny
I talk to Jonathan Penny about audio description for TV. He worked at ITV and is now at Channel 4 heading up their access services.  And we also cover a bit about live subtitles, and how TV companie...Show More