Toby Davey Audio

VocalEyes Deputy Director Toby Davey highlights London audio described theatre performances for January 2015 for the Infosound London project.

VocalEyes Deputy Director Toby Davey highlights London audio described theatre performances for December 2014 for the Infosound London project.

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.

In this podcast Toby Davey met up with partially sighted Chef Jo Miller. Broadcast on BBC Radio4's In Touch programme.

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 Royal Watercolour Society.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.