I talk to Jonathan Suffolk, Director of Production at The Curve, Leicester who headed up the team at The National Theatre who developed their smart caption glasses.  These augmented reality glasses provide captions for people who are D/deaf or hard of hearing, without them having to turn and read captions on a screen at the side or over the top of a stage.  We get quite techy and hear how it all works in detail.  And he talks very honestly about how access works in a major theatre and how it rubs up against the eternal economic difficulties in the arts.Links: The National Theatre Caption Glasseshttps://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/your-visit/access/caption-glasses The National Theatre, London, UKhttps://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/ Leicester Curve Theatrehttps://www.curveonline.co.uk/ Stagetext – providing captions for theatreshttps://www.stagetext.org/ Galapro – providing captions and audio descriptions to phoneshttps://playbill.com/article/the-new-technology-about-to-revolutionize-broadway The Arts Council’s ‘Let’s Create’ strategyhttps://www.artscouncil.org.uk/lets-create Thanks for listening! You can see all episodes on my website www.alicegilmour.com.

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