Podcasts from the past
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Close your eyes and open your ears to journey through the Museum of London’s London before London and Medieval galleries. These audio description podcasts have been created to enable our visually impaired visitors to access more in our galleries, but they are suitable for everyone.
Download the podcasts from iTunes.
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Podcasts from the London before London gallery reveal how these past communities utilised the natural resources to amazing effect - flint hand axes, wooden clubs, antler combs, clay pots and bronze spearheads.
Podcasts from the Medieval gallery tell of everyday life in the Anglo Saxon replica home, the importance of the church with the model of the Norman St Paul’s Cathedral, attitudes to death with the grave slab that covered the heart of Joan de St Edmunds, the lives of immigrant Jewish people in the 11th century through a Sabbath lamp and the importance of trade with the impressive arms of the Hanseatic League.
Run as part of the Museum's social inclusion programme of projects, Podcasts from the Past worked one day a week for 8 weeks with a small group of adults who are currently long-term unemployed, to create a series of podcasts for visually impaired visitors. The participants are a range of ages, with a rich variety of backgrounds and life stories, but came together to work as a team to realize their abilities and gain news skills and experience they can use in their futures.
Over the course of eight weeks the group, many of who had not set foot in the Museum before, received audio-description training and learnt more about visually impaired people through workshop with VocalEyes, had tours in the galleries with curators, spent time researching the objects chosen for the podcasts and then wrote and edited the scripts. The final three weeks of the project saw them bring the scripts to life using lots of exciting technology to record, produce and edit through workshops with SoundDelivery.
