Try imagining living life without the local newspaper! Read on...
This is what we do to help fill this gap
A sight-impaired person listening to the local news on a USB player
We give sight impaired and listeners with other disabilities the independent means of keeping in touch with what's going on in the local community.
How does the weekly Talking Newspaper help?
It enables sight impaired and listeners with other disabilities to keep in touch with the local community. For housebound listeners, the talking newspaper can provide a sense of belonging in the wider community with familiar and friendly voices in the home each week.
What is in the talking newspaper?
The first 45 minutes contains news articles from Reading in Berkshire newspapers. The articles are taken from the issues of the previous week leading up to recording day. There are usually 3-4 newsreaders plus the editor each week, providing a variety of voices for the listeners. There is another 45 minutes which contains the magazine style features covering a wide range of interests. For example, articles from TNF-soundings covering useful infomation of interest for those with sight loss and recipes plus the death notices as a number of our readers do like to check up on who they have out lived.
The Talking Newspaper is available free to anyone in the Reading area or the UK, also now it is on the web for those who have connections with or are interested in Reading Berkshire and is unable to read newsprint for whatever reason.
So if you are sight impaired or know someone who is please click How to receive this newspaper