[cma-l] Insight Radio on Guardian's Radio Review (4 Dec 2007)

[S.Scifo at londonmet.ac.uk]

Dear All,
attached below a review of Insight Radio, a community radio station 
aimed at blind and partially-sighted listeners, based in Glasgow.

Further info on the station at http://www.viponair.com/
and on Ofcom's license profile at
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/radiolicensing/Community/CR017.htm

Best Wishes,

Salvo
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Source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/dec/04/radio


Radio review

     * Elisabeth Mahoney
     * The Guardian
     * Tuesday December 4 2007

Listening to Insight Radio (at viponair.com), Europe's first radio 
station for blind and partially-sighted listeners, you realise what 
pointless fluff so much other radio is. This is broadcasting that helps, 
sustains and even changes lives, making a virtue of radio's lack of visuals.

The station's excellent Talking Books programme, presented by Robert 
Kirkwood, yesterday celebrated the history of books on audio at the 
RNIB, which began in 1935 with a novel each by Agatha Christie and 
Joseph Conrad. The Talking Books service now has 41,000 members and is, 
said one listener, "the best thing the RNIB has ever done".

Ian Turner, development manager for the service, gave a lively history 
of how technology and tastes have changed. In 1960, shellac LPs were 
replaced by books on tape cassette. It wasn't exactly slick technology. 
At the end of each track, he explained, "you had to push your finger 
into a little hole, push a little spring-loaded metal clip and change 
track". These days, with members aged six to 100, talking books include 
more contemporary writers, though Catherine Cookson is still the most 
popular. The recipe for happy listeners, said Turner, is as it was in 
1935: "Good-quality recordings, good- quality narration."

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