ADP in Conversation
An occasional series sponsored by the Audio Description Project focusing on various aspects of audio description, held as an ACB Community Event.
- July 7, 2026: Audio Description People's Choice Awards Voting Kick-Off Party with special guests Anna Capezzera, Christina Stevens, and Dave Wallace (For more information about the People's Choice Awards, the finalists, and who created the AD for each, visit the People's Choice page on the Awards Gala website.)
- October 28, 2025: Let's Get Spooky: Horror Movies with AD
- April 24, 2025: AD Town Hall
- March 21, 2025: Diversity and Representation in Audio Description
- February 23, 2025: Talking about the Academy Awards
- January 23, 2025: Nothing About Us Without Us: A Career in Audio Description
- December 16, 2024: 'Tis the Season to Celebrate Audio Description and Holiday Movies
- October 24, 2024: Audio Description and Antennas
- August 22, 2024: AD at the Paris Olympics, hosted by ADP co-chairs Kim Charlson and Carl Richardson, with special guests from NBCUniversal
- February 17, 2024: host: Tabitha Kenlon; guest: Dr. Joel Snyder
- November 11, 2023: host: Tabitha Kenlon; guests: Colleen Connor, Brandon Cole, and Krishna Washburn
- October 21, 2023: hosts: Tabitha Kenlon and Roy Samuelson; guests: Ren Leach, Tanja Milojevic, Serina Gilbert, and Slau Halatyn
- September 9, 2023: host: Tabitha Kenlon; guests: Satauna Howery, Fern Lulham, and Rebecca Odum
Audio Description Podcasts (not affiliated with ACB or ADP)
- The ADNA Presents: The Audio Description Network Alliance podcast; host: Roy Samuelson
- The Audiobook Wizard Presents: Illustrated Audiobooks; host: Richard Rieman
- The Dark Room; hosts: Alex Howard and Lee Pugsley
- The James Bond Files – Description Deep Dive; host: JJ Hunt
- Picture This; hosts: Brian Charlson and Carl Richardson (last episode recorded in 2022)
- Talk Description to Me; hosts: Christine Malec and JJ Hunt (last episode recorded in 2023)
Podcast Episodes
This list includes individual episodes focusing on audio description that aired on podcasts covering a wide array of topics.
- Audio Description Specialist Certification With Kim Charlson & Lolly Lijewski (Outlook on Western Radio, March 18, 2024)
- Tabitha Kenlon & The Audio Description Project (AT Banter, March 6, 2024)
- Love and Self-Care: Nefertiti Matos Olivares’ Path to Happiness (The Blind Chick, February 15, 2024)
- The Power of Descriptive Narration: Nefertiti’s Journey (The Blind Chick, February 8, 2024)
- Flipping the Script on Audio Description: Describing What is Unseen (Reid My Mind, June 28, 2023)
- Our 2023 Valentines (NPR Planet Money, February 10, 2023; starts at 19:35)
- A Thousand Words (Twenty Thousand Hertz, October 19, 2022)
- The What, How, and Why of Audio Description (3Play Media Podcast with Dr. Joel Snyder, June 2022)
- Flipping the Script on Audio Description: In the Making (Reid My Mind, June 15, 2022)
- Black Art White Voices: A Flipping the Script Prequel (Reid My Mind, June 1, 2022)
- Audio Description Training Retreats (Hindsight is 20/200, May 10, 2022)
- A Conversation with Liz Gutman, Head Audio Description Writer for IDC (That Real Blind Tech Show, April 24, 2022)
- It's All About Audio Description, A Conversation with Eric Wickstrom from IDC (That Real Blind Tech Show, January 25, 2022)
- Subtitles for the Blind (David Pogue, Unsung Science, January 14, 2022)
- Making the Visual Verbal (Dr. Joel Snyder on National Endowment for the Arts, January 2022)
- Flipping the Script on Audio Description – A Hop Hop Approach (Reid My Mind, September 29, 2021)
- Flipping the Script on Audio Description – Blind Grown & Sexy (Reid My Mind, September 23, 2021 -adult content)
- Flipping the Script on Audio Description – And the Winner Is… (Reid My Mind, August 11, 2021)
- Audio Description Czar, A Conversation with Carl Richardson (That Real Blind Tech Show, August 4, 2021)
- Flipping the Script on Audio Description – Going Social (Reid My Mind, July 4, 2021)
- Audio Described National Parks (Hadley, June 25, 2021)
- Voice Arts Awards Presents Audio Description (Bold Blind Beauty, June 4, 2021)
- And The Audio Description Goes to… (NFB, April 23, 2021)
- Inform & Connect Season 2: Roy Samuelson, narrator; Stephen Letnes,composer (AFB, April 19, 2021)
- Do blind people watch movies? A session with audio description all-star Roy Samuelson (Adventure Mind, March 24, 2021)
- In Place of Catastrophe (a seven-part series that "explores transgenerational resilience within a disability justice framework"; March 16, 2021)
- The Blind Social, Audio Description (That Blind Lads Podcast, January 13, 2021)
- Flipping the Script on Audio Description Part Three – Moving Beyond Just US (Reid My Mind, November 25, 2020)
- Flipping the Script on Audio Description Part Two – Voice Matters (Reid My Mind, November 11, 2020)
- Flipping the Script on Audio Description (Reid My Mind, September 16, 2020)
- Audio Descriptions in Movies for the Blind (Newstalk, August 21, 2020)
- The Importance Of Audio Description For Subtitled Movies (NPR, August 16, 2020)
- Advocates For Deaf And Blind Laud Netflix's New Playback Features (NPR, August 8, 2020)
- “Audio Description with Ray Samuelson” Pushing Limits (KPFA, July 31, 2020)
- Making movies/TV shows accessible to the blind - Interview with Roy Samuelson (JC5 Productions, July 2020)
- Voices in the Entertainment World from a Blindness Perspective (Blind Abilities, June 2020)
- Viewing Audio Description History Through Audio Eyes with Rick Boggs (Reid My Mind, May 2020)
- Don’t Let Audio Description Services Slip! (RNIB, March 2020)
- An Audio Description Extravaganza! Conversation with Voiceover Artist Roy Samuelson, Activating AD and a Bit of a Rant (Life After Blindness, March 2020)
- Audio Description: A Professional Perspective (Part 2 of 2, The Nation's Blind, March 2020)
- Audio Description: The Big Picture (Part 1 of 2, The Nation's Blind, February 2020)
- The Voice of Audio Description – Roy Samuelson Returns to the BA Studio (That Blind Tech Show, February 2020)
- All Things Audio Description (ACB, December 2019)
- Audimance: Transforming Dance and Movement into Sound (Reid My Mind, November 2019)
- Audio Description: More than Movies Television and Theater (Reid My Mind, August 2019)
- Opportunities in the Creation of Audio Description (Reid My Mind, August 2019)
- How Do You Watch Movies If You Can’t See? (Be My Eyes, July 2019; requires Spotify subscription, but you can sign up for free)
- Blind Abilities Super Duper Extra: Spider-Man: Far From Home is Here, And Audio Describer Roy Samuelson Spins His Own Web on Audio Description (ortranscript of the Blind Abilities podcast) (Blind Abilities, June 2019)
- Blind Citizens, In Focus Podcast: An Interview with Audio Narrator Roy Samuelson (June 2019)
- That Blind Tech Show: The Return of Roy! Audio Describer and Voice Artist Roy Samuelson is in the Studio (March 2019)
- The Art of Access with Cheryl Green (Reid My Mind, March 2019)
- On the Mic with Roy Samuelson (Reid My Mind, January 2019)
- Reid My Mind Radio: Black on Audio Description (Reid My Mind, August 2018)
- Reid My Mind Radio: On Black Panther Audio Description - Race, Selection & Time (Reid My Mind, May 2018)
- Twenty Thousand Hertz: Audio Descriptions (February 2017)