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Talking newspapers and magazines, like those published by the South Wales Talking Magazine Association, provide local news and information on tape cassettes and CD for visually impaired people to listen to in the comfort of their own homes. Talking newspapers and magazines really do help visually impaired people keep more in touch.
Anyone who is entitled to free postage under the terms of the Royal Mail's "Articles for the Blind” service can receive our publications free of charge.

From our studio in Cardiff, two regular publications
are produced on tape cassettes or CD:
The weekly Cardiff Talking Newspaper
(including 'Snippets')
and the monthly South Wales Talking Magazine.

3000 cassettes or CDs, that can be played on any standard player, are distributed every month.

The Cardiff Talking Newspaper contains local Cardiff news and features edited from
the South Wales Echo, courtesy of Trinity Mirror. It lasts 60 minutes.
A team of volunteers edits and records the local news in the Association's studio
every week. The cassette tapes are then duplicated and sent through the post so
that local visually impaired people get their summary of the week's news for the
weekend.
The South Wales Talking Magazine is produced monthly and is a sound
magazine created entirely by the Association's own team of reporters. It contains
items of particular interest to people with a sight impairment, general features and
regular contributions such as 'Birthday Greetings'. "Postbag" and 'Quiet Corner'.