Who are our Listeners?

Across a spectrum of ages our listeners come from a broad range of backgrounds but have one thing in common; for various reasons they have difficulty reading a newspaper. This could be because of sight impairment or some other disability which precludes the turning of the pages.

The Redditch and Bromsgrove Talking Newspaper reaches out to individuals at home and to residents in care homes.

These are some of the Care Homes who currently partner with us by playing us to their residents.

Burcot Grange

Chandler Court

Millcroft

Studley Rose

Woodland View

How do our listeners access their audio Newspaper?

The Newspaper can be accessed in several ways:

  • Through receipt of a free delivery USB stick which is played on a free issue player
  • Via an Alexa or the Smart Phone Alexa App
  • Through our Facebook page
  • Via this web site

Further instructions on each of these options are provided below.

How does the USB stick work?

A player can be provided free issue. We then send a recording of each weekly edition on a USB stick. Once the listener has finished listening to each edition, the USB stick is then returned to us by reusing the original wallet. Postage is free. If you or someone you know, would like to listen via the USB stick, please contact us to discuss.

For Alexa the commands are……

‘’Alexa, enable Talking Newspaper’’

( When asked which one say:)

"Redditch and Bromsgrove Talking Newspaper"

For Smartphone

You will need to access via the Alexa App.

  1. If you do not have the Alexa App, download it from the Play Store or App store.
  2. Open the Alexa App and say ‘Alexa enable Talking Newspaper’ (You should only have to do this once.) You’re now ready to listen to Talking Newspaper using your smart phone.
  3. Alexa will respond to voice commands, so, depending on the type of phone you have, say ‘Hey google’ or ‘Hey Siri open the Alexa App.’

Then just say ’Alexa, open Talking Newspaper.’

Voice prompts will ask you for the name of the Talking Newspaper that you want to listen to.

To stop listening just say, ‘Alexa Cancel.’

To listen through Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100075724156552

Internet - you can listen to us by following this link:

https://www.upload.hear.media/player/?tn=redditch

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