Hi there:
In the last few days I've been researching what sort of stuff I could listen
to for free on the internet geared toward the blind or otherwise.
I found a few goodies and thought people might enjoy this as much as I have.

First, I have to be bias with my first one because my good friend Kelly
Ashton works for this organization.
The service is out of Canada and is called Voice Print.
They read magazine and newspaper articles, have interesting contests and on
Saturday nights, they have descriptive movies played on he air.
You can visit them at:
www.voiceprint.ca
There is a link to listen to them over the internet as well.

Second, is another reading service called assistive media.
They read magazine articles primarily out of "The New Yorker" and "Wired".
You can listen to them in real time or download the files to listen to them
at your leisure.  They can be found at:
www.assistivemedia.org


An organization called sound print has a web site comprised of documentaries
they produce.  They have new ones every week and you can also listen to
archived materials.  There's a very interesting piece on Marconi the
inventor of the radio.
Check them out at:
www.soundprint.org


I'm sure most of you know the ACB Radio.  Well for those of you who don't,
it's an internet radio run by the American Council of the Blind (Hope I got
that right).  They have great live material and if you miss something, you
can always go into their on demand section.
My favourite show after "main Menu" is "the Blind Handy man".
Check it out at:
www.acbradio.org

And for you comedy fans, hold on to your hats.  There's a site totally
dedicated to Doctor Demento.  Check them out at:
www.comedycorner.net
Give a few seconds for the web page to come up as site is slow sometimes.
This is an archive of over 30 years of Doctor Demento shows.  Quite
impressive and you can even listen to the most current episode.

For religious folk and the curious, there's a web page dedicated to the
unshackled series.
People who have been set free through faith share their stories each week in
RealAudio...
Check it out at:
www.unshackled.org/

BBC Radio 4 has a gem of a web site of archived material.  All in Real Audio
format, the programs are a joy to listen to.  It looks like they archive all
their programs for the last 2 weeks.  Found in alphabetical order, it is
very easy to move through and choose the program you wish to listen to.
They have great afternoon plays and science programs.
Please note that the names of the shows are listed above every listen link,
so you have to use your reading cursur a bit, but it's useable.
Visit the listen again web page at:
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/listenagain.shtml


Well that's the end of my list.
Hope some of you found it useful.  I have to get back to my search for huge
spiders on the BBC Science Program.

Regards,
Martin


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