Audio description had changed how the show watched television
The previous day’s *Naked Attraction* discovery continued.
Blind listener Isabel explained that audio description was particularly valuable in quiet parts of films and television where the visuals carry the story.
A scene might contain no dialogue because two characters are kissing, fighting or doing something important.
Without description, a blind viewer can be left waiting for dialogue to return without knowing what has just happened.
Isabel said availability still varied and DVDs could sometimes offer better access to described versions than streaming services.
Scott and Chris realised the segment had started as a funny discovery but was also teaching them something genuinely useful.
Isabel had no idea what Scott or Chris looked like
Isabel listened to the show regularly.
She knew their voices extremely well.
But she did not have a clear picture of either presenter.
That created an obvious challenge.
Scott and Chris would audio-describe one another.
The pair treated it partly as an audition for the professional world of television description.
Accuracy was required.
Unfortunately, so was honesty.
Chris gave Scott “friendly yet determined eyes”
Chris began with Scott’s feet and worked upwards in the style of *Naked Attraction*.
Size-eight feet.
Defined calves.
A fairly muscular upper body.
Then the face.
Chris described it as moon-shaped and noted that nearly all of Scott’s teeth were present.
The eyes were friendly yet determined.
Hair was sparse across much of the body but plentiful on the head.
Scott accepted most of this with only limited protest.
Isabel said she was beginning to form a picture.
Scott returned the favour
Then it was Chris’s turn.
Scott chose his own soundtrack and worked through Chris’s appearance.
The descriptions became far more personal than either probably expected when they volunteered.
By the end Isabel joked that she would never hear the programme in quite the same way again.
Scott and Chris were delighted.
They had wanted to make an audio picture.
Whether professional describers would have hired either of them afterwards was another matter.
Jordan North supplied Wrong Answers Only from the castle
Radio 1 colleague Jordan North was appearing on *I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!*.
He had already supplied exactly the kind of television moments his colleagues expected from him.
The show asked what Jordan had revealed about himself in the castle.
Wrong Answers Only.
Listeners immediately turned every answer into a Blackburn Rovers reference, knowing football was one of the easiest ways to wind Jordan up.
Scott and Chris enjoyed the fact Jordan could not hear any of it from inside the programme.
They were effectively creating embarrassing facts on his behalf while he was unavailable to defend himself.
Don’t Look It Up twisted the songs
The daily quiz featured heavily manipulated versions of pop hits.
Ariana Grande’s *Positions* emerged through the distortion.
Bebe Rexha’s *Meant to Be* appeared in another round.
The altered audio sounded so strange that even songs Scott and Chris knew well needed to be rebuilt in their heads.
After a week fascinated by how television could be translated into words, the quiz ended by doing almost the opposite to music:
taking something familiar and making it difficult to recognise at all.
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