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Hello London | Travelling as a Visually Impaired Wheelchair User

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Hello Londonđź‘‹ It's been 2 and a half years since I last visited London and I've missed the hustle and bustle of the big city.  One of my all-time favourite films is Back to the Future. I just love it, it's got it all - sci-fi, comedy and romance. In September 2021, we started phoning the theatre as I heard Back to the Future was on with Audio Description. However, the access line went unanswered. In the end, I missed the one audio-description performance of 2021!  Back to the Future sign At the start of this year, I emailed the theatre to ask when the next audio description show was on. I informed there were none planned. I wrote to the production team who were quite miffed about the misinformation I'd been given as there were two audio-description shows in March! By the time we knew this, there were no wheelchair spaces left. Fortunately, I am able to transfer and the theatre lady (we finally got through on the phone) was very helpful and got us seats near the front,