Our first offering is an Iranian recipe from Ella Hashemi, a cook based in Edinburgh with Iranian/Jewish roots. The dish she’s sharing is called Ash e-reshteh, which is something her family would make to call in Iranian New Year.
SoundScribe is collaborating with Gurpreet Jivan, a writer, playwright and creative producer based in Birmingham and Berlin. Together we are launching a four-part podcast series called An Instruction for Cooking: Recipes and Revolutions. Audio description is baked into the sound design (you have never been this close to a pan without getting burnt!). Sound acts as a direction to sighted or blind listeners together with cuts from the recipe-maker in a prose style to bring to life the memory, context, and imagery of the dish we’re preparing.
SoundScribe, a global majority collective of multi-disciplinary audio describers and consultants with lived experience of sight loss, specialising in access for the arts.
This episode was:
Produced and written by Gurpreet Jivan
Audio description and narration by Elaine Lillian Joseph
Sound Design by Rosie Ridgway
And a huge thank you to our guest, and writer of today's recipe, Ella Hashemi.