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Grapevine – with Ally Smith and David Tanner
Sound Site 2007 Exhibition - Peter Fraser talks to Jim Agnew about this years event on 10th & 11th May.
What’s On – with Ken Lindsay
Voting on 3rd May - With polling day coming up on 3rd May Peter talks to Helen Breadie, Electoral Registration Officer, Glasgow City Council. She explains the layout of the new voting papers and gives information about postal & proxy voting for the Local Government & Scottish Parliament elections on 3rd May.
RNIB incorporating the Blind Centre for Northern Ireland - From Soundings Magazine, Roland Myers talks to Deane Houston about the changes taking place from 2nd April this year. The Centre has been organising the services for the blind for the past 28 years and Deane has been involved all of that time.
Software Express – Guide Software - Ally recently spoke to Jamie Cuthbertson about this Guide Software for computers which won a Simply the Best Award from RNIB in 2005. The software has continued to develop and the programme provides a cheaper and easier access to a computer for those who wish to use screen enlarger or speech software - it’s all incorporated into the Guide System.
Tel: 0141 570 1814, mobile 07788 666 286.
E-mail jamie@mytic.co.uk (Agent number A0024)
Software Express 0845 22 55 005.
Vitalise Holidays - Another interesting programme from Soundings Magazine about the popular Vitalise Holidays. Roland Myers talks to Paul Stanbrooke.
Tel: 0845 330 0149.
E-mail viholidays@vitalise.org.uk
Insight Radio - The new name for VIP On Air, started transmitting via mainstream radio in the Glasgow area on 101 FM on 30th March 2007. Peter talks to Steven Scott, one of the new presenters, who worked with Playback for a short time about 10 years ago.
Web: www.insightradio.co.uk.
Internet Services - Gordon Luke gives us information about a free service providing documents in a speech and braille format - RoboBraille. Visit www.robobraille.org.
Reveal Web is an RNIB service for book searches www.revealweb.org.uk
American Foundation for the Blind gives details about accessible equipment. Access World available on www.afb.org/aw/main.asp.
Playback Publications - Ally with some details of the regular publications available from Playback .
Banks, Who Needs Them? - With all the talk about bank charges recently, David reads this humorous article written by a 98 year old.
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