Hosted by Alice Gilmour · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 15 episodes
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Alice Gilmour interviews people who make the arts accessible, including audio describers, BSL interpreters, technology experts, disability experts, theatre managers, community outreach workers, and more.
Alice Gilmour hosts Making The Arts Accessible, a arts show with 15 episodes published.
David Bellwood, who is head of access at the National Theatre, and before that The Globe, discusses the importance of 'predictable adaptability' - how organisations must become reliably able to change and adapt to custom
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. Collaborating with tech compan
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 look at all the diff
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 learning departments w
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 description for many year
Ben Wilson is an actor, theatre-maker, audio description consultant and recently became Extant's first trainee Artistic Director. We talk about how he combines these different roles, what it's like having a portfolio car
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 listening and learning from your
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 provide captions for pe
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 audio description. She
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 on to create their ow
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 companies are starting to look
In this episode, I talk to Vicky about her work as an audio describer, and an access champion, what she thinks of relaxed performances, and her work with Mind The Gap which champions access to creative careers for disabl
I chat to Philippa about her work with Talking Birds theatre company in Coventry and especially the invention of a mobile captioning system - The Difference Engine. With this system, people can get captions on their phon
My conversation with Paul who is a BSL interpreter, covered how he prepares to sign an opera, what more theatres can do to welcome D/deaf audiences, and a look back at some of the wonderful shows he has signed over the y
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Paul Adams
Senior Director of Partner Ecosystems · Royal Ballet
1 appearance on this show
Ben Wilson
Real Estate Mogul & Legendary Happy Hustler · Blues Traveler
1 appearance on this show
Hannah Thompson
Professor of French and Critical Disability studies · Bourke Aboriginal Corporation Health Service
1 appearance on this show
Dan Parr
1 appearance on this show
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