List of programmes with Audetel description

This page offers a list of programmes known or believed to have been transmitted with Audetel audio description. Specific dates and times of transmission should be included wherever possible.

According to the ITC Guidance On Standards for Audio Description document, "a trial national service was operated across peak-time ITV and BBC services between the months of July and November 1994 in which 100 special set-top receivers allowed viewers to enjoy 7-10 hours of described programming per week." (although the same document later indicates "over 6 hours of described programming a week to 140 receivers throughout the UK".)

Programmes/movies believed transmitted during trial period
11/08/94 20.00 Realms Of The Russian Bear (and/or other episodes at same time on 18/08/94, 25/08/94, 01/09/94, 08/09/94, 15/09/94)

22/10/1994 The Silence of the Lambs (ITV)

25/10/1994 21.30 Against All Odds: Snatched (BBC1)

26/10/1994 Back to School Mr. Bean (ITV)

16/11/1994 Basic Instinct (ITV)

Mentions in the ITC document and other sources indicate that The Bill was audio described for at least some of the July-November trial period. At a maximum that would encompass episodes 78 to 142 of series 10.

Mention is also made of Coronation Street, which would have been airing episodes 3719 to 3784 during that time. Specific examples of description from episodes which would have aired in July are given in the ITC document in section 4.3.

Further mention is made of Men Behaving Badly which would have been transmitting its third series on BBC1 between July 1 and August 5.

Programmes/movies cited as examples but where broadcast during trial period is not confirmed

 * Take Off With T. Bag
 * Unknown cooking series with female presenter
 * Survival - 'The Queen of the Beasts' (1989) (Anglia)
 * Sharpe - 'Sharpe's Rifles' (Central)
 * Close Encounters of the Third Kind
 * Dead Poets Society
 * Hear My Song
 * Pretty Woman
 * The African Queen
 * Singing In The Rain

Possibly described but transmitted before/after trial period
03/04/1994 23:00 The Maltese Falcon (BBC One) (Mentioned tangentially in the ITC document)

23/12/1994 09:05 Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (BBC Two) (At least partially described by Willie Rushton)

24/12/1994 15:25 Dumbo (ITV)