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The Long Eaton & District Talking Newspaper for the Blind & Partially Sighted
Long Eaton & District Talking Newspaper for the Blind & Partially sighted has been operating since 1978 and has close to 200 listeners within their geographical area that covers Eastwood in the North, Castle Donington in the South, Beeston in the East to Borrowash in the West.
They supply their free three weekly audio Newspaper to those who are Blind & Sight impaired and find reading difficult, if not impossible.
The LETN has listeners, not only in their geographical area, but also around the world, thanks to the web site that always carries their recordings, as does the Bumblebee App, (product of the British Wireless for the Blind Fund) and also ALEXA App thus ensuring that their TN is heard Nationally. To access ALEXA, simply say, “Alexa, open talking newspaper”
The LETN has 45 volunteers including Redhill Primary School, Ockbrook and Just Write Creative Writing Group that meet at the Elephant Rooms, Draycott., using a variety of devices to record news and current affairs stories. They also have volunteers who carry out all administration of their listeners register, pouches and memory sticks.
The three weekly recordings we offer 15 hours of local news, articles, poems and stories which makes with Magazines many hours of listening pleasure.
We provide over an 15 hours of local news, current affairs, matters of local interest and also 13 magazines;
(1) BBC Music (2) BBC History (3) BBC Gardeners World (4) Country Living (5) Derbyshire Life & Countryside (6) Readers Digest (7) Saga (8) Sport Weekly Digest (9)The Peoples Friend (10) The Week (11) Which (12) Women’s Weekly (13) Yours every three weeks for the Blind and Visually Impaired all
Our Talking Newspaper is available free of charge to people with Visual Impairments. Each edition is sent by post on a USB Memory Stick. Royal Mail supply all postage Free of Charge. If you do not have a suitable Memory Stick Player, we can supply one free of charge. If you, or a friend or relative, would like to use our service, please contact us Martin Sykes on martysykes899@gmail.com or mobile 07970 914930
Step 1 - Sign-up (Our service is totally free)
Step 2 - We post a USB Memory Stick Every 3 Weeks loaded with news
We have a number of volunteer roles, all of which are on an eight week rota. Volunteers receive help and training for their roles.
All our services are provided free of charge. As such we rely heavily on help from our invaluable volunteers. If you feel you have something to offer please contact us – we are always on the look out for the following roles.
Editor
Takes articles from the local newspapers and other sources to compile an edition including: Local news, local sport, letters, what’s on, community news and other local material of interest.
Sound Technician
Edits the Recordings from Readers and checks volume and format types are OK.
Administrators
Collects the returned wallets from the Royal Mail sorting office, checks these against a register of listeners and prepares the outgoing wallets for despatch.
Readers
Reads and records onto mobile phone and emails to Editor the previously-prepared material
Interviewer
Records interviews and features, using a digital portable recorder, for inclusion in the weekly or monthly productions.
The Long Eaton & District Talking Newspaper for the Blind & Partially Sighted has been operating since 1978, and is delighted to announce that the greatly revered and much loved actor, Robert Lindsay, of Citizen Smith and my Family fame, among many others who has his roots in Ilkeston, has agreed to be their President.
The Chairman of the Talking Newspaper, Martin Sykes, shared the stage with Robert (then Stevenson) back in the 1966, at Clarendon College in Nottingham and in 2017 invited Robert to become their President, a position he happily accepted.
Robert is delighted to be supporting the work of the Talking Newspaper in their declared intention to both inform and entertain and thereby give pleasure to as many Blind or Partially Sighted people as they can.
Useful Links
We hope you find the following links useful. If you can add to the list please email via the contact form.