Listening Books
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Listening Books is a UK audiobook charity founded in 1959 by Norma Skemp.[1]. It provides a subscription[2] internet streaming and postal audiobook service to anyone who has an illness or disability which makes it difficult to hold a book, turn pages or read in the usual way. Their patron is Stephen Fry.[3]
The charity also campaigns for the widening of the scope of the "articles for the blind" scheme,[4] which provides free postage for items sent to the blind.[5]
The charity runs an annual "Listening Books Award for the Spoken Word" at the Hay Festival. In 2008, this was won by Sandi Toksvig.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ "Our History", Listening Books website accessed 05 February 2012
- ^ You and Yours, BBC Radio 4, 16 May 2005; transcript accessed 20 August 2008
- ^ Listening Books website, accessed 20 August 2008
- ^ "Our campaign", Listening Books website, accessed 20 August 2008
- ^ Royal Mail Group plc website, accessed 20 August 2008
- ^ "The Listening Books Award for the Spoken Word 2008" Listening Books website, accessed 20 August 2008
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