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hpr3574 :: Local Talking Newspapers

Recordings of Local News for the Blind and Visually Impaired

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Hosted by Lee on Thursday, 2022-04-14 is flagged as Clean and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
blind, audio, recording. 6.
The show is available on the Internet Archive at: https://archive.org/details/hpr3574

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Duration: 00:06:33

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Shows about tearing down the barriers for our fellow hackers.

The Talking News Federation website:

https://tnf.org.uk/

With links to 300+ talking newspapers in the UK.

The British Wireless for the Blind website:

https://www.bwbf.org.uk/

Royalty Free Music from Bensound:

https://www.bensound.com/

The Audacity website:

https://www.audacityteam.org/

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Comment #1 posted on 2022-04-14 20:49:01 by Windigo

Enlightening episode

Thank you for the episode! I was completely unaware of these services, and found them highly interesting.

Comment #2 posted on 2022-04-14 23:56:49 by brian-in-ohio

good show

I really liked this episode, good insight into how audio production is done on an expert level. I'd love to hear how Lee is connected to the project and maybe a how you got into audii stuff. I bet you Lee is a Forth guy!

Comment #3 posted on 2022-04-24 15:59:45 by elmussol

elderly relatives et al

The Talking Newspaper arriving weekly was a highlight for a couple of my Great Aunts when I was growing up in the '70s in the UK. I know that groups of both sighted and not folks organized "Listening Coffee Mornings" through church at that time.

It's interesting to think that then, Talking Books were a thing primarily for visually-impared people only, whereas now, audio books are a thing for everyone. Audible (and the rest) owe their existence to standing on the shoulders of giants.

A great episode that reminded me that people do good stuff for other people for reasons other than financial reward.

Comment #4 posted on 2022-04-24 16:09:26 by elmussol

addendum

Forgot to mention that it should be said that the local paper in question was the (still extant) Clitheroe Advertiser & Times.

Comment #5 posted on 2022-05-09 16:15:14 by elmussol

correction

@davemorris: To correct your comment on the Community News -- Clitheroe is in Lancashire not Yorkshire.

Comment #6 posted on 2022-05-09 18:49:06 by Dave Morriss

Clitheroe, LANCASHIRE!

Hi @elmussol,

Thanks for the correction.

I'm embarrassed to admit that I was a student in Manchester for about 5 years and then worked at Lancaster University another 5 or so (both in Lancashire, for the benefit of the non-English), and wasn't sure about the location of Clitheroe.

Not a mistake I'll make again :-)

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