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Edinburgh International Festival is on at the moment, bringing best artists from opera, music, theatre and dance to the city.
And today we’re looking at an upcoming audio described performance of EXXY, Dan Daw’s dance-theatre work exploring the artist’s relationship with Imposter Syndrome and Working Classness through the lens of his disability. 
Let’s learn more about the show and how to catch it as we’re joined by audio describer Christopher McKiddie.
More about the show: EXXY | Edinburgh International Festival
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Clown Show is one of several audio described shows at this year's Edinburgh International Festival. 
Part-clown, part-magician, Geoff Sobelle is joined by an army of clowns holding it together as best they can, performing the original score on questionable instruments.  
David Hogg speaks with audio describer Amanda Drollinger to find out more.
For more information about the Audio Described performance of Clown Show on Sunday 30 August head to https://www.eif.co.uk/events/clown-show 
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Which animals can you listen out for this month? Amelia discusses the harvest moon, swifts and more of August's nature.
Learn more on the RSPB website - The year in nature: August
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Each week, RNIB Connect Radio's Allan Russell sits down with Simon Antrobus, CEO of RNIB, to look at some of the big stories coming from the UK sight loss charity.
This week Simon looks at Commonwealth Games success for blind and partially sighted athletes.
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RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey is joined again by Vidar Hjardeng MBE, Inclusion and Diversity Consultant for ITV News across England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands for another audio described theatre review.
This week we are off to London’s Fleet Street for the Birmingham Repertory Theatre’s revival of Stephen Sondheim’s musical masterpiece ‘Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street’ by REP Artistic Director Joe Murphy with description by Professional Audio Describer Caroline Burn.
About ‘Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street’
“Swing your razor wide, Sweeney!”
Wrongfully imprisoned for 15 years, Benjamin Barker returns to Victorian London as the mysterious barber, Sweeney Todd. Upon finding out he’s lost everything he ever loved, Sweeney swears revenge and so begins a chilling tale of macabre murder and Mrs Lovett’s pies! A deliciously bloodcurdling version of Stephen Sondheim’s musical”
 
First performed on Broadway in 1979, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler‘s 12-time Tony Award-winning masterpiece is considered one of the greatest musicals ever written.
For more about access at the Birmingham REP do visit - https://www.birmingham-rep.co.uk/your-visit/accessibility/
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