Melissa Reid Visually Impaired Surfer, BBC Radio 4’s In Touch Programme
Melissa Reid is a very successful visually impaired Triathlete and surfer.  It was at the age of seven when Mellisa had her first surfing lesson while on holiday in Cornwall with her Dad Allan. After moving down to Cornwall permanently Mellisa took any opportunity she could to get to the beach and surf. In 2017  a back injury took Melissa  out of triathlon training for a while giving her more t...
9m Jan 29, 2020
9m
Joanne Roughton Arnold visually impaired opera singer, BBC Radio 4’s In Touch Programme
Joanne Roughton Arnold is a visually impaired opera singer from New Zealand who is also the co-founder of ForemidAbility  a new opera company which is breaking ground in accessibility and inclusion both on and off stage. For Radio 4’s In Touch programme I caught up with Joanne in North London as she was rehearsing for the recent ForemidAbility very successful double bill of   Schoenberg’s Pierr...
10m Sep 23, 2019
10m
Describing Handel and Hendrix in London, VocalEyes Podcast
VocalEyes Deputy Director Toby Davey took a walk through the bustling streets of central London to visit the home of two great musicians who were only separated by 200 years and a wall. The house at No. 25 Brook Street was home to the great composer George Frederic Handel (1685-1759) while a flat in No. 23 was home for a couple of years in the late ’60s to the great rock legend Jimmy Hendrix. A...
12m Sep 23, 2019
12m
Sir Matthew Bourne OBE Interview, VocalEyes Podcast
VocalEyes deputy director Toby Davey interviewed Sir Matthew Bourne OBE, artistic director of New Adventures, backstage at Sadler’s Wells to find out more about his new critically acclaimed dance production of The Red Shoes based on the Powell and Pressburger film. In Toby’s interview with Matthew Bourne you will also hear about what inspired Matthew to take The Red Shoes on to the dance stage;...
14m Aug 13, 2019
14m
Rationale Method of Audio Description, UnScene Suffolk's Tree of Dreams, BBC Radio 4's In Touch Programme
The Rationale Method is a New way of describing physical movements for theatre performances   using beatboxing and other sounds to describe what is happening on stage.   The feature included interviews with Nathan Geering from Rationale Method talking about this new way of describing, Wayne Witney from UnScene Suffolk who has been trained by Nathan   to providing some of the description as well...
8m Aug 12, 2019
8m
Jo Parsons, visually Impaired Professional Chef, Cooking with Confidence Classes, BBC Radio 4's In Touch Programme
Inspiring interview for BBC Radio 4’s In Touch programme with  visually impaired professional Chef Jo Parsons about her  ‘Cooking with Confidence’ classes helping to get  visually impaired people into the kitchen, cooking and building their confidence.  The interview was recorded in Jo’s kitchen, South Hams in Devon with clips from Jo in Sherford Village Hall kitchen  preparing one of her legen...
7m Aug 12, 2019
7m
Aida Audio Described - interviews with Opera Holland Park’s Mike Volpe and James Clutton, VocalEyes Podcast
In the lead up to Opera Holland Park’s second audio described performance with their production of Verdi’s Aida on Sunday 19 July 2015 at 2pm. VocalEyes Deputy Director Toby Davey met up with Mike volpe, General Manager and James Clutton, Producer at opera Holland Park to find out why they wanted to continue working with VocalEyes to provide access to their opera productions for blind and parti...
14m Jul 08, 2015
14m
VocalEyes Theatre Audio Described Highlights January 2015
VocalEyes Deputy Director Toby Davey highlights London audio described theatre performances for January 2015 for the Infosound London Project.
6m Apr 06, 2015
6m
VocalEyes theatre Audio Described Highlights May 2015
VocalEyes Deputy Director Toby Davey highlights London audio described theatre performances for may 2015 for the Infosound London Project.
5m Apr 06, 2015
5m
VocalEyes Theatre Audio Described Highlights April 2015
VocalEyes Deputy Director Toby Davey highlights London audio described theatre performances for April 2015 for the Infosound London Project.
4m Mar 20, 2015
4m
VocalEyes Theatre Audio Described Highlights January 2015
VocalEyes Deputy Director Toby Davey highlights London audio described theatre performances for January 2015 for the Infosound London project.
6m Feb 07, 2015
6m
VocalEyes Theatre Audio Described Highlights December 2014
VocalEyes Deputy Director Toby Davey highlights London audio described theatre performances for December 2014 for the Infosound London project.
4m Feb 07, 2015
4m
ReHab Workers, BBC Radio4's In Touch Programme
In this podcast Toby Davey talks to a number of students on the REHab course at the University of Central England. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4's In Touch program.
4m Sep 09, 2014
4m
Jo Miller partially sighted Chef, BBC Radio 4's In Touch Programme
In this podcast Toby Davey met up with partially sighted Chef Jo Miller. Broadcast on BBC Radio4's In Touch programme.
6m Sep 09, 2014
6m
Jonathan Huxley, Partially Sighted British Contemporary Artist, VocalEyes Podcast
VocalEyes Deputy Director, Toby Davey met up with Jonathan Huxley, partially sighted British Contemporary Artist in his studio in South East London to talk about his career as an artist, being the first partially sighted student from his school to go to Art College, his time at the Royal Academy , talking about some of his commissioned work and recently being elected as an Associate of the Roya...
27m Apr 06, 2014
27m
Janee Hall, Partially sighted Dancer, VocalEyes Podcast
VocalEyes Deputy Director, Toby Davey met up with Janee Hall, partially sighted dancer to find out what inspired Janee to study dance and go on to perform on stage with dance companies such as Touch Down Dance and London based Amici Theatre Dance Company.
13m Apr 06, 2014
13m
Maria Oshodi, Artistic Director and CEO of Extant, VocalEyes Podcast
Toby Davey, VocalEyes Deputy Director met up with Maria Oshodi Guide Dog owner and Artistic Director and CEO of Extant Britain's only professional performing arts company of blind and partially sighted people to talk about her work as a writer,, director, her first play, 'The S Bend', which was produced as part of the royal Court Theatre’s young Writers Festival in 1984 and the work of Extant. ...
17m Dec 07, 2013
17m
My Favourite Art Venue - The Almeida Theatre with Kirin Saeed and Sandy Easton, VocalEyes Podcast
Toby Davey, VocalEyes Deputy Director met with Kirin Saeed and Sandy Easton two blind theatre goers in the auditorium of the Almeida Theatre in north London to find out why they have selected the Almeida as their favorite art venue and Toby also met up with Miranda Yates, Access Officer at the Almeida to find out why they put on audio-described performances. VocalEyes audio podcast produced by ...
15m Dec 07, 2013
15m
Audio-Description of JMW Turner’s The Fighting Temeraire, VocalEyes Podcast
Toby Davey, VocalEyes Deputy Director visited the National Gallery in London with Audio Describer Louise Fryer to hear a description of the nation’s favorite painting ‘JMW Turner’s The Fighting Temeraire’.
Louise first began by describing the room at the national Gallery where the painting hangs before describing The Fighting Temeraire in detail. VocalEyes audio podcast produced by Toby Davey
7m Dec 07, 2013
7m
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and Audio-description, VocalEyes Podcast
In this VocalEyes Audio Podcast we take a look at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London focusing on the audio-described performances and other services that they offer for blind and partially sighted visitors. Our Deputy Director Toby Davey met with David Bellwood, Communications Assistant at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre who looks after access at the Globe, to find out why they work with VocalEy...
16m Nov 01, 2013
16m