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Glasgow. is pioneerng Scotland's first audio descripitionsof performances for blind and visually impaired people. After a couple of very successful experiments. the project was properly launched at a recent pcrformanced of June Shaw during which volunteers provided costume and set descriptions and indications of significant moves. The system makes use of an induction loop
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In the second broadside oi the year irom the original 7:84 camp, actor Elizabeth MacLennan has put together a biographical account at hertime on the road with Scotland’s ioremost
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58'l‘he List 23 November - 6 December 1990