Audio Description

Audio Description

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Audio Description
  • Audio Description: The Other Place

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of The Other Place.

    Two sisters reunite on the anniversary of the death of their father.

    Their uncle has remodelled their family home, in an attempt at a fresh start. But one sister’s sudden reappearance threatens to shatter this fragile idyll as she demands...

  • Audio Description: Waitress: The Musical

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of Waitress: The Musical.

    Waitress: The Musical brings the Tony-nominated Broadway phenomenon to National Theatre at Home. Featuring composer-lyricist Sara Bareilles as Jenna Hunterson, a waitress and expert pie maker stuck in a small town and a loveless marri...

  • Audio Description: Death of England :Closing Time

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of Death of England: Closing Time.

    There are two sides to every story.

    Grieving the loss of the family shop with their dreams destroyed, Denise and daughter-in-law Carly are left to pick up the pieces of their relatives’ mistakes.

    Sharon Duncan-Brewster an...

  • Audio Description: Death of England :Delroy

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of Death of England :Delroy.

    'Raw, gutsy and exhilarating' (★★★★ Evening Standard)

    Unapologetically upwardly mobile and working as a bailiff, Delroy’s life spirals out of control on one surreal day as he races to get to the hospital where his girlfriend Carl...

  • Audio Description: Death of England :Michael

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of Death of England :Michael.

    A family in mourning. A man in crisis.

    After the death of his dad, Michael is powerless and angry. In a state of heartbreak, he confronts the difficult truths about his father’s legacy and the country that shaped him. At the fun...

  • Audio Description: Coriolanus

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of Coriolanus.

    Warrior. Hero. Traitor.

    Unrivalled in the art of war, undefeated on the field of battle, Coriolanus is Rome’s greatest soldier.

    When a legendary victory brings the opportunity of high office, he is persuaded to stand for election. But while ...

  • Audio Description: Present Laughter

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of Present Laughter.

    Stream the multi award-winning production of Noël Coward’s provocative comedy featuring Andrew Scott (Vanya, All of Us Strangers, Fleabag).

    As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star actor Garry Essendine’s colourful life is in d...

  • Audio Description: The Grapes of Wrath

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of The Grapes of Wrath.

    The great American novel reimagined.

    Forced to travel West in search of a promised land, the Joad family embark on an epic journey across America in the hope of finding work and a new life in California.

    Their story is one of false ...

  • Audio Description: Nye

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of Nye.

    Following its critically acclaimed debut, Nye with Michael Sheen is now streaming on National Theatre at Home.

    From campaigning at the coalfield to leading the battle to create the NHS, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan is often referred to as the politician with g...

  • Audio Description: Macbeth

    Movie + 2 extras

    This is the audio described version of Macbeth.

    Macbeth is coming.

    A couple corrupted by their relentless lust for power have blood on their hands. Witness the gripping tale of greed, murder, deception, and superstition. Once you cross the line, you can never turn back.

    Tony and BAFTA Awar...

  • Audio Description: London Tide

    Movie + 7 extras

    This is the audio described version of London Tide.

    A storm rages and, in the darkest part of the night, a body is pulled from the swirling river. Across the city, two young women confront an uncertain future.

    Based on Charles Dickens' Our Mutual Friend, this romantic and propulsive thriller ...

  • Audio Description: People, Places & Things

    Movie + 2 extras

    This is the audio described version of People, Places & Things.

    Duncan Macmillan’s (Lungs, 1984) intoxicating hit play People, Places & Things, directed by Jeremy Herrin (Best of Enemies, Wolf Hall, This House) and designed by Tony Award-winner Bunny Christie, is a ‘must-see all over again’ (Wha...

  • Audio Description: Vanya

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of Vanya.

    Andrew Scott (Fleabag) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens’ (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) radical new version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.

    Hopes, dreams, and regrets are thrust into sharp focus in this one-man ada...

  • Audio Description: Underdog: The Other Other Brontë

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of Underdog: The Other Other Brontë.

    Reader, I think you know who is most quotable.

    Charlotte Brontë has a confession about how one sister became an idol, and the other became known as the third sister. You know the one. No, not that one. The other, other one...

  • Audio Description: Dear Octopus

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of Dear Octopus.

    The family, from whose tentacles we can never quite escape.

    When a golden wedding anniversary reunites the Randolph family on the eve of WWII, Dora and Charles must reckon with the adults their children have become. Their children, meanwhile,...

  • Audio Description: Till the Stars Come Down

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of Till the Stars Come Down.

    Everyone loves a wedding…

    It’s Sylvia and Marek’s wedding and you are all invited.

    Over the course of a hot summer’s day, a family gathers to welcome a newcomer into their midst. But as the vodka flows and dances are shared, pa...

  • Audio Description: No Man's Land

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of No Man's Land.

    Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart lead the cast in this glorious revival of Harold Pinter’s comic classic.

    One summer's evening, two ageing writers, Hirst and Spooner, meet in a Hampstead pub and continue their drinking into the night at Hi...

  • Audio Description: Home

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of Home.

    Bullet doesn’t want to call a hostel home. Eritrean Girl was smuggled here in a lorry. Singing Boy dreams of seeing his name in lights and Garden Boy just wants to feel safe.

    Homelessness amongst young people in the UK is at a record high, so when th...

  • Audio Description: Three Sisters

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of Three Sisters.

    Nigeria, 1967. Three sisters, grieving the loss of their father, long to return to their former home in Lagos as conflict encroaches on their provincial village.

    Chekhov’s iconic characters are relocated to Nigeria on the brink of the Biafra...

  • Audio Description: Dara

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of Dara.

    1659 Mughal India. A ferocious war of succession rages between the heirs to the Muslim empire; two brothers with very different visions of its future.

    Shahid Nadeem's epic tale of the dispute that shaped modern-day India and Pakistan is directed by N...

  • Audio Description: The Little Big Things

    Movie + 2 extras

    This is the audio described version of The Little Big Things, a new musical

    An extraordinary true story about an ordinary family.

    When one moment changes everything, Henry’s family are split between a past they no longer recognise, and a future they could never foresee.

    Based on the Sunday Tim...

  • Audio Description: Ian McKellen on Stage

    Movie + 2 extras

    With stories and anecdotes from his illustrious career on stage and screen, McKellen performs extracts from his most iconic performances, including Shakespeare's King Lear and Tolkien's Gandalf from Lord of the Rings.

    Directed by Sean Mathias and captured live from the West End in London, Ian Mc...

  • Audio Description: The House of Bernarda Alba

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of The House of Bernarda Alba.

    Forced to live under their mother’s tight grip as they mourn their father’s death, can five sisters survive when young Adela dares for passion and freedom?

    Olivier Award-winner Harriet Walter (Succession) plays the formidable m...

  • Audio Description: The Father and the Assassin

    Movie + 3 extras

    This is the audio described version of The Father and the Assassin.

    Mahatma Gandhi: lawyer, champion of non-violence, beloved leader.

    Nathuram Godse: journalist, nationalist – and the man who murdered Gandhi.

    This gripping play traces Godse’s life over 30 years during India’s fight for indep...