South Wales Talking Magazine Association

Our Talking Newspaper is distributed to listeners within Cardiff and District but our Magazine has listeners across South Wales. We are based within Sight Life (formerly Cardiff Institute for the Blind) who generously provide us with our accommodation.

We also do recordings for Sight Life and give talks to local groups and have a stand at appropriate exhibitions. We have a purpose built studio within Sight Life / RNIB Cymru headquarters. This is a state of the art information and resource centre in the heart of Cardiff.

We now share a studio with RNIB's Connect Radio satellite station here in Cardiff. This gives both organisations the best possible facilities and opportunities to produce high quality productions and maximise use of studio time. We produce both our publications on memory sticks.

Publications

This TN has 2 publications listed.

South Wales Echo

Description: A weekly digest of articles from the daily South Wales Echo. We read the news that is not in the headlines as these are covered in depth on the radio.

Publication frequency: Weekly
South Wales Talking Magazine

Description: The Magazine is all original material recorded by our own team of reporters and presenters. Events, news, information and regular features of general interest and items specifically for those with a visual impairment.

Publication frequency: Monthly

Contact Details

Contact name: Peter Jones

Telephone: 029 2082 8549 (answering machine)

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.swtma.com

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Publications

South Wales Echo