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volunteers (there are around 100 volunteers is all)
swing into action. Copies of the paper are collected from the Chronicle offices
in Victoria Street, Crewe.
The Cuttings Editors read the papers and select items for
possible inclusion
in the tape that will go out that week. They assess the
length of each item so that they can fill the 45 minutes of tape on each side of
the cassette.
The Sub-Editors make the final choice of articles to
be used and distribute the items into five folders that will be used by the Readers.
 Meanwhile, the previous week's cassettes have
been returned from the Listeners via Royal
Mail, and these are checked ready to be re-recorded with the new version.
The Readers and the team leader - the Recorder -
arrive at the studios and record the items. We used to record on to a master cassette
tape, but in November 2005 we received a grant from the The Sentinel Football
Competitions - an event sponsored by The Sentinel newspaper - with which to buy
a computer for digital recording.
An hour and a half, or so, later a master file has been created on the computer.
The Readers can go home,
while the Recorder checks that all is well with the recording before leaving the next team
of Volunteers - the Copiers - to complete the task of producing cassette tapes
of the recording and sending them out to the Listeners. High-speed copying
machines which can
produce several tapes at a time are used. They take just three-and-a-half minutes to copy both sides
(simultaneously) of the 90-minute
tape. The full quota of copy tapes are produced in an hour or so.
The recorded tapes are checked and popped into a
yellow plastic postal wallet which will carry the tape to the Listeners via the
ordinary post by the next day. All we ask of our Listeners is that they send the tape back to us in
plenty of time for the process to begin all over again next week.
How can I get a tape for myself or a relative
or friend? Click here
to find out.
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