Newspaper

Both the Talking Newspaper and the Talking Magazine are recorded in our purpose built studio. The 'Master' recordings are made on a high quality cassette recorder and PC and are then ready for high speed duplication onto the many hundreds of cassettes and CDs that we send out through the post to our listeners.

The Talking Newspaper is a weekly digest of local news edited from the South Wales Echo and is recorded by two teams of volunteers. The features and general interest items are pre-recorded on a Tuesday morning and the very latest news is added on Thursday evening. Following the completion of the 'Master’ recording on Thursday evening the team then turn their attention to duplicating the hundreds of cassettes. They then put them into individually addressed postal wallets and pack them into mail sacks ready for collection the next day. The listeners receive their personal copies on Saturday morning. Having been brought up to date over the weekend with the latest local news and information, the cassette is returned to us by simply reversing the address card and sending it, free of charge, back to our studio.

Throughout the early part of the week, as the cassettes arrive back from the listeners, the distribution team check them back in using a bar coding system and ensure they're ready for re-distributuion on Thursday.