Audio Description: Pioneer's Progress

Abstract

In Autumn 1985 the BJVI (Vol.III No.3) published an article 'The play's the thing' describing the beginnings and development of audio description in the theatre as practised in Washington DC under the direction of Margaret and Cody Pfanstiehl. In 1986 the RNIB set up a working party (now known as the Audio Description Advisory Group) to promote audio description in the UK (BJVI Vol.IV No.2, Summer 1986). At the Theatre Royal, Windsor, audio description is now happening. In the following article Mark Piper, Director o f the Theatre, tells the story.