Toby Davey Audio

By Toby Davey

freelance Radio Reporter / Audio Producer

Currently - Freelance Reporter - BBC Radio 4’s In Touch programme - producing features and items about news, views and information for visually im

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January 29, 2020 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 time to spend at the beach surfing.
Melissa’s sporting achievements not only include a Bronze Triathlon medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics but in 2018 she was the first visually impaired woman to win the ISA Adaptive World Surfing Championships held in San Diego.
Listen to my interview with Melissa recorded on the beach in Falmouth to find out more about surfing as a visually impaired person.
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10min
September 23, 2019 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 Pierrot
Lunaire and Gillian Whitehead’s Hotspur for the 2019 Grimborn Festival at the Arcola Theatre in London.
Listen to my interview with Joanne to find out what made her fly halfway across the world to study, why she moved from the violin to opera singer, how easy a career as a professional opera singer is for someone who is visually impaired and why she set up ForemidAbility.
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10min
September 23, 2019 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.
At Handel and Hendrix in London Toby met with Claire Davies, Curator, and Head of Learning and Interpretation, and Sean Doherty, Head of Communications, to find out more about Handel and Hendrix, the projects and events they have been running, linked with the RNIB and the recent training in audio description and visual awareness that VocalEyes ran for their staff.
In this audio feature Claire Davies describes Handel’s bedroom and his bed, while the psychedelic and colourful Hendrix flat is described by Sean. They also discuss what links these two great musicians, and tell us what will be on offer in the near future for blind and partially sighted visitors to Handel and Hendrix.
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13min
August 13, 2019 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; the relevance of the story of the main character Vicky Page to culture today; how Matthew works with his designer and music arranger on the developments of his productions and why he likes to sit in with the audience and watch his productions from their point of view.

Toby also asked Matthew whether he has ever observed one of the touch tours that happen before an audio-described performance and whether he had ever listened to the live audio description of any of his productions.
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14min
August 12, 2019 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 as sound affects during UnScene Suffolk’s recent production ‘Tree of Dreams’ at the New Wolsey Studio Theatre in Ipswich plus three visually impaired theatre goers on their experience of the Rationale Method of description for ‘Three of Dreams’.
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8min
August 12, 2019 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 legendary ‘Pudding Club’ lunches which help to fund the ‘Cooking with Confidence’ classes.
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8min
July 08, 2015 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 partially sighted people. You will also find out what is so unique about Opera Holland Park and why their production of Aida has been described as 'A Night at the Museum meets Lord of the Flies'.
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15min
April 06, 2015 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.
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6min
April 06, 2015 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.
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5min
March 20, 2015 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.
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5min

FAQs about Toby Davey Audio:

How many episodes does Toby Davey Audio have?

The podcast currently has 70 episodes available.