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Sandwell Talking Newspaper
About Sandwell Talking Newspaper
Sandwell Talking Newspaper is a weekly digest of articles published in the Sandwell Express and Star and also contains some material from Black Country Podcasting plus some home grown material. It goes out weekly on audio cassette to subscribers and is now available here, courtesy of Sandwell Visually Impaired and we would like to say thanks to them for hosting our on-line presence.
Internet listeners have the advantage of a slightly longer edition including material we cannot squeeze onto the 60 minute tape version. The streaming "Listen now" link loads a play list which enables skipping forward to side two whilst listening in your MP3 media player of choice.
Each new edition of the Talking News will be here on Saturdays after recording which takes place on Wednesday evenings each week.
Thanks go to Express & Star papers for permission to use news items. Thanks also to Laurance Hipkiss of Rooster studios for his permission to use excerpts from his weekly Black Country Podcasts.
We must also thank our loyal team of readers who give their time freely every week, often after a hard day's work, to spend an hour and a half reading the paper for us.
Sandwell Talking News is produced independently and is not produced by SVI members.
Pete and Ray produce the Sandwell Talking News and can be contacted as follows:
Pete: pjbeasley@topmail.co.uk
Ray: rays-home@raynetbrm.plus.com
Sandwell Talking Newspaper 4 February 2012
This week's Sandwell News is missing the news from Sandwell Council, but we should have this next week.
Of special interest in this issue are short interviews with the Scrutiny panel in Sandwell, with particular reference to reporting on how you have found a stay in hospital recently. We also hear about the new Courts of Request Wetherspoons in Oldbury.
We hope you enjoy listening.
Ray and Pete
Ray can be emailed at: rays-home@raynetbrm.plus.com
Or Pete at: pjbeasley@topmail.co.uk
He can also be phoned on 0121 544 5321
Previous editions
Listen now to Sandwell Talking News 28 January 2012
Listen now to Sandwell Talking News 21 January 2012
Some useful links to sources of news and information
National Talking Express: The charity that produces two UK-wide audio magazines, specifically for vision-impaired people, celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. A good source of information and entertainment for vi people.