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The dangers of taking a blind friend to see Fifty Shades of Grey

24 February 2018

9:00 AM

24 February 2018

9:00 AM

Audio description, or AD, as it is fondly called, is coming of age. Once consigned to the utility room of grey voices reading boring cues to inform blind people what was going on on stage or screen, AD is now a dynamic narrative form that is findinga presence in almost all the arts (from opera, theatre and film to art galleries and museums).

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