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Cue and Review at BBC Radio Scotland - 10 Nov 2005
BBC Radio Scotland?s Fred MacAulay and Hazel Irvine will be interviewing Alastair McPhee of Cue and Review - Print Speaking to the Blind on MacAulay and Co between 9.30 and 11 on Friday 11th November 2005
Following the article by William Tinning in The Glasgow Herald newspaper earlier this week, Alastair has been invited into the studios at Queen Margaret Drive, Glasgow to talk with the team about how their talking newspaper service is looking to attract new listeners via a 6 week campaign on SAGA 105.2FM. The campaign has been funded by the Big Lottery Funds' Awards for All and is designed to boost the percentage of the 44,000 registered blind people in the West of Scotland receiving titles such as Inside Soap, The Scottish Sun, History Today and the Evening Times as talking newspapers for the reading impaired..
Alastair McPhee Managing Editor of Cue and Review Recording Service said "as usual Cue and Review is showing that where we are given the resources to develop a campaign we pull out all the stops to maximise the return from it. Now with Fred and Hazels support we are going to be able to not only speak to blind Scots in the West but to visually impaired people throughout Scotland. The fact that this publicity is taking place at the same time as 55,000 print leaflets have started being distributed throughout East Dunbartonshire, courtesy of Standard Life Assurance should further enhance the opportunity for visually impaired people to find out about our full range of titles."
Margaret Strain volunteer Editor of The Herald Talking Newspaper said, "our team of volunteers have been delighted to come in to the Bishopbriggs studio every Monday to record our 90 minutes of Herald columnists and news for the last eight years. We have always felt however that for all the effort that we put in ensuring the audio title is recorded, checked and copied ready for distribution, more people did not sign up to receive our yellow postal packages through their door."
Evans Dickson, Chairman of the charity went on to say "when we are recording our titles we are not just thinking about those visually impaired people who are able to get out and about, but also the majority of blind people who have lost their sight in later life and are far more likely to be dependant on family and friends for their local news. This advert will encourage them to phone 0141-563-0306 and to sign up to the 60p per week membership scheme."
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For further information please contact:
Alastair McPhee, Cue and Review Recording Service
Tel: 0141-563-0306
Mob: 07802967486
Email: alastairmcphee@cueandreview.org.uk
Or for BBC Radio Scotland contact
Katie Robertson on 0141-338-2545 or email
Katie.Robertson@bbc.co.uk
Notes to Editors:
Cue and Review Recording Service is Scotland's largest independently funded talking newspaper group, transcribing fifteen print magazines and newspapers into audio formats for the benefit of visually- and reading-impaired people.
Cue and Review Recording Service is one of over 600 talking newspapers and magazine groups throughout the United Kingdom, but the only one providing the specific titles that it records.
Cue and Review Recording Service is based in Bishopbriggs, Glasgow. It is a Scottish registered charity and a company limited by guarantee but without share capital. As a non-statutory organisation it must raise every penny it spends. Income is drawn from membership fees, donations, street collections, individual grants and from transcription work carried out for public and private sector clients. This helps them meet their responsibilities under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. In 2004 over 5,000 Scots were helped by the charity specifically through its recording of public/private sector information.
Since January 2004 the service has introduced a membership fee which presently stands at 60p per week enabling people to gain access to the full range of audio titles.
Titles recorded by the service are The Herald, Sunday Herald, Evening Times, Scottish Sun, Radio Times, Inside Soap, Earth Matters, Star Trek, SFX, Empire, History Today, Kerrang, Cue and Review, Four Four Two and More magazines
