{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Vidar Hjardeng MBE - Noughts and Crosses, AD Theatre Review","description":"RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey is joined again by Vidar Hjardeng MBE, Inclusion and Diversity Consultant for ITV News across England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the channel Islands for another audio described theatre review.\n\nThis week we have Malorie Blackman’s gripping Romeo and Juliet story ‘Noughts and Crosses’ at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre with description by Professional Audio Describer Carolyn Smith.\n\nAbout ‘Noughts and Crosses’\n\n“Why love, if losing hurts so much?”\n\nSephy and Callum sit together on a beach. They are in love. It is forbidden.\n\nSephy is a Cross and Callum is a Nought. Between Noughts and Crosses there are racial and social divides. A segregated society teeters on a volatile knife edge.  As violence breaks out, Sephy and Callum draw closer, but this is a romance that will lead them into terrible danger. This gripping Romeo and Juliet story by acclaimed writer Malorie Blackman is a captivating drama of love, revolution and what it means to grow up in a divided world.\n\nTo find out more about the current tour of ‘Noughts and Crosses’ do visit - https://pilot-theatre.com/production/noughts-crosses/\n\n(Image shows the RNIB Connect Radio logo. On a white background ‘RNIB’ written in bold black capital letters and underlined with a bold pink line. Underneath the line: ‘Connect Radio’ is written in black in a smaller font)","author_name":"RNIB Connect","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/4839823-rnib-connect","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43574671/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}