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Meet Dr. Barry Cronin, Inventor of Audio Description for Television

Meet Dr. Barry Cronin, Inventor of Audio Description for Television

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In this episode, Brian and Carl have the pleasure of talking with Dr. Barry Cronin, the person who invented audio description for television broadcast, and the person that the recent Barry Award given by the Audio Description Project was named for.  Also you find out how the sport of bowling gave him the idea. So sit back and hear about how audio description came about in the early days.

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