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Orkney Talking Newspaper started in 1983 with a meeting between just three people. Using very basic equipment and supported by a handful of volunteers the first master tape was created on a borrowed tape recorder in a room at the council offices. The tapes were then sent out to 15 listeners. Things have moved on in the intervening years and the recordings are now made digitally and supplied on CDs with recording and production taking place within our own studio/office within the Orkney Library & Archive building in Kirkwall. Each week the script is prepared and dispatched and the recordings sent to approximately 105 recipients with one listener in Canada accessing via the podcast on the library's website. We now have approximately fifty enthuisiastic volunteers and were awarded the Queen's Golden Jubilee Award for voluntary service by groups in the community in 2004. We are grateful to the Orkney Media Group for permission to use material from The Orcadian newspaper and Living Orkney magazine. We'd also like to thank the Orkney Library & Archive for posting our recording on their website. If you or a friend or relative living in or outwith Orkney has difficulty reading newspapers on account of temporary or permanent visual or physical impairment you can receive a free weekly CD of news read from The Orcadian Newspaper and a magazine CD approximately every quarter. For further details: Email: orkneytalkingnewspaper@googlemail.com
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