July 2007

Playback Magazine July 2007 (No. 375)

Grapevine – with Margaret Cowie and David Tanner.

What’s On – with John Cavanagh.

Audio Described Films - Roland Myers from Soundings Magazine talks to Joan Greening of RNIB about Audio description in the cinema.

Roshni Hafeez - John caught up with Roshni Hafeez, a remarkable lady with lots of idea’s to help and assist visually impaired people, in particular in Pakistan. Roshni recently received an award of the Female Inspirational Young Scottish Muslim of the Year. Roshni, age 24 is totally blind and this is her third visit to us at Playback. John wanted to find out more about the progress of the many projects she is involved in.

Sound Site 2007 - Peter Fraser and Derek Young are our reporters at this years Sound Site event in the Central Hotel, Glasgow in May. This time we hear from:

FSB Enterprises: Tel 01592 412666, E-mail: info@fsbinsight.co.uk
SITE: Tel: 0141 334 5530, E-mail: john.turley@site-wos.org.
Audio Description Scotland: Tel: 01383 417 899, E-mail: marjorycarnegie@yahoo.co.uk
Nystagmus Network: Tel: 01636 677 004, Web: www.nystagmusnet,org
Cobolt Systems: Web: www.cobolt@compuserve.com
Concept Northern: Tel: 01355 573 173, Web: www.conceptnorthern.co.uk
Humanware: Tel: 01933 415 800
Barry Bennet Keyboards: Tel: 01204 534 311, Web: www.barrybennet.co.uk
Force 10: Tel: 01372 450 887, Web: www.forcetenco.co.uk

TNAUK Offer - The Talking Newspaper Association of the UK record over 230 publications on various formats. The recently sent us news of their subscription offer which will also benefit Playback or your local TN.

Julia Ann Cobb - Julia Ann from West Virginia, USA was interested in the comments from Marjory Arnot from Arizona, and she felt she needed to elaborate on the subject of the Daisy format.