In Touch (radio series)

In Touch is a programme on BBC Radio 4 airing "news, views and information for people who are blind or partially sighted".[1]

History

Janet Quigley who had been promoted into BBC management in 1956 took a key role in launching the world's first national radio programme for blind people which was named In Touch.[2] In Touch began to be broadcast by the BBC Home Service in 1961, and was continued by BBC Radio 4 from 1967 with hosts including David Scott Blackhall and Peter White.

As of 2011, the programme is broadcast every Tuesday at 8:40pm UK time, and is 20 minutes in duration.[3]

gollark: Anyway, what would "physical requirements" actually be? Also mental requirements, since those seem possibly problematic too.
gollark: No idea, don't follow American history.
gollark: Dell doesn't have to take that on directly but Apple certainly does.
gollark: What? They sell computers. Semiconductor stuff is literally *the* most capital-intensive industry.
gollark: In a working electoral system you would vote for more representative people, not arbitrarily rule out some classes of people based on some requirements.

References
  1. BBC website
  2. Paul Donovan, ‘Quigley, Janet Muriel Alexander (1902–1987)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 4 March 2017
  3. BBC Radio 4 schedule


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