Tape Services - Areas Covered

Please note: This service is no longer available on Cassette Tape and has been renamed

Digital Audio Services

Kent Talking Newspapers - Keeping in touch

The Kent Talking Newspaper is one of the many services available from Kent Association for the Blind. Traditionally provided on cassette tape, this format is now being withdrawn and replaced with new high quality digital formats. The new digitally recorded editions provide local newspapers on USB Memory Stick and SD Memory Card formats, which also includes an informative and entertaining magazine, for people who have difficulty in reading normal print.

The Kent Talking Newspaper gives all people, who have difficulty in reading, the opportunity of 'reading' their own local newspaper independently.

The local digital audio newspaper, together with a magazine, can be despatched free of charge to any address. All you need is a specially adapted playback device called a Boombox, which can be purchased from KAB for £20, or a Computer.

Free local newspapers

Free local nwspapers on tape are available for these areas:

• Deal/Dover/Sandwich
• Faversham
• Swale
• Ashford
• Maidstone
• Medway
• Tonbridge
• Tunbridge Wells
• Gravesend
• Thanet
• Herne Bay
• Sevenoaks
• Shepway
• Dartford

Additional Services Available:

• Catholic Talking Newspaper (Association of Blind Catholics)
• Home & Country (Women's Institute)
• Society of Blind Lawyers information tape
• Ashford Borough News (Ashford Borough Council)
• Talking Newspapers in Kent not produced by KAB

• Bromley
• Bexley
• Canterbury
• Whitstable

For further information contact:

Marten Rayner, Digital Production Co-Ordinator on 01622 691357 or

E-MAIL:
ktn@kab.org.uk