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Please tell your visually- and reading-impaired friends and family about Cue and Review Recording Service. Open up a world of print media to them and help us to reduce our unit costs.
Cue and Review Recording Service distributes 71,040 cassette newspapers and magazines each year to visually-impaired people throughout the United Kingdom. We know that the majority of visually-impaired people in Scotland are not aware that the newspapers and magazines that they were able to read before losing their sight are still available to them in audio formats.
Joyce is one of the 1,050 visually-impaired people who receive our service free of charge. Joyce, who lost her vision in later life, always read her daily paper and was aware of her TV schedule. Wishing to keep up-to-date with life in general, she still follows the soaps, current affairs and arts programmes on television as well as attending Scottish film and theatre. She lives alone so has no one to tell her what today's offering on television is. Joyce badly misses her "What's On TV" listings if they are not there on the right day and regularly phones the office for a highly personalised service if her postman is late.
Each year Joyce receives 52 copies of "What's on TV" audio magazines, 26 "Inside Soap" audio magazines, 52 copies of the "Herald" and 52 "Sunday Herald" audio newspapers. Each tape takes over two hours to record by our volunteer presenters and sound technicians. The direct costs of Joyce receiving our service, were she the only listener to each title, would be £5,460. The larger the number of listeners receiving a similar service to Joyce the lower the unit cost to Cue and Review Recording Service.
