National Talking Newspapers and Magazines

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National Talking Newspapers and Magazines records over 230 national newspapers and magazines onto audio cassettes and digital formats.

Their service is available to visually impaired people who are not able to read normal size print with glasses, or anyone not able to access printed material for other reasons.

Subscribers can choose the formats they prefer (audio cassette tape, audio CD, DAISY/MP3 CD, email or internet download).

The titles cover all the national newspapers and a large percentage of the most popular magazines and periodicals, such as Readers Digest, Spectator, Hello, Private Eye, BBC Music Magazine, and more specialist publications such as Classic Bus, Steam Railway and Bird Keeper.

Subscription charges vary according to the number of publications and formats subscribed to.

More details are available from:

National Talking Newspapers and Magazines
National Recording Centre
Heathfield
East Sussex TN21 8DB

• telephone: 01435 866102
• website: www.tnauk.org.uk

Residents in Renfrewshire can also obtain further information from the council's Visual Impairment Team.

Please email: vi.services.sw@renfrewshire.gov.uk

or telephone during duty hours: 0141 847 4977

Alternatively you can fax us on: 0141 847 4966

or visit us during duty hours, or write to us at:

Mile End Centre
30 Seedhill Road
Paisley PA1 1SA

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