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How We Can Help you

If you are:

and you want to keep up to date with the local news in Reading, Berkshire, UK, then you can benefit from our weekly news service. So if you are interested in Reading's news, you can receive Reading's Talking Newspaper as a MP3 format on a USB flash memory drive or, over the internet every week.

The newspaper contains approximately 45 minutes of local news items from the Reading Evening Post & Reading Chronicle plus approximately 45 minutes of features and other articles, each article comes on its own track as on a LP or CD. The service costs nothing to the listener. We supply the USB drives and the postage is also free in the UK.

For internet listeners

Provided you full fill one or more of the stated conditions listed above all you need to do is to fill in the
The application form below

Or by the British Wireless for the Blind Sonata internet radio.
Go to BWBF for more details

For our postal listeners


The talking newspaper USB drives are sent out each Friday in a plastic wallet by post, and usually arrive with the listener on Saturday morning. You then have the weekend to listen to the news. The listeners are then asked to put the USB drives back in the plastic wallet, remove the label & then put it in the post on the following week so they will arrive back in good time ready for wiping clean and re-recording the next week's news. Again, there is no charge to the listener for postage.

What you need

All you need for the USB drive is a USB player, such as a boom-box, or you can use your computer. If you don't have a computer or USB drive player we will loan you a Art Dio USB flash memory player.

To receive this news service and to help us make sure we have your or the person who is to receive the news details are correct please fill in the contact form below.

Contact form


Only hit the return/enter key when you are ready to send the form.
Fields with a * must be filled in
Title: Mr/Miss/Mrs...
* First Name
* Surname
* First line of address
Second line of address
* City-town
County
* Post code
Telephone number
E-mail Address
State which service you are interested in
Do you require a USB player, yes/no


Full contact details

Application form to listen on line


Only hit the return/enter key when you are ready to send the form.
Fields with a * must be filled in
Title: Mr/Miss/Mrs...
* First Name
* Surname
* First line of address
Second line of address
* City-town
County
* Post code
Telephone number
* E-mail Address
* Do you require a response, yes/no


Full contact details

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Reading's Talking Newspaper for the blind
Charity No. 271880
Telephone The chairman, Bob Bristow, 0118 958 2056