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Playback Magazine February 2010 (No. 406)

      
Grapevine
David Tanner - with inserts from  Carol Holmes, Hillary Davies, Yvonne Harle, and Jane Philips.       

What’s On with Ken Lindsay.         

David Coulthard Museum
Derek Young visited this unique museum about the career of Formula 1 racing driver David Coulthard. The museum is in the village of Twynholm.
The David Coulthard Museum and Pitstop Diner,
Burn Brae, Twynholm, Scotland, DG6 4NU.
Tel: 01557 860 050 
www.davidcoulthardmuseum.com   
   
Bill McLaren
Rugby Commentator Bill McLaren died last month.As our tribute to that wonderful voice of rugby, we replay an interview that Peter recorded in September 1988 in the staff room of the school Bill was working in as a P.E. Teacher. The interview finishes with Iris Brown ending Side 1 as it was presented in the September 1988 edition of the magazine.

Fiona Moredon – Moredon Solutions
Margaret talks to Fiona Moredon about her company which specialises in assisting company’s, organisations, and service providers to solve any access problems or other ways to make them better service providers.
Tel: 07825 677789
email: fiona@moredonsolutions.com
  
Paul Porter – RNIB Technical Support
Roland Myers speaks to RNIB’s Paul Porter about what assistance is available to help Blind and Partially Sighted people get access to services and equipment.
Tel: 08459 00 0015 -  0207 391 2280
email: ict@rnib.org.uk    

Calibre Books
Derek talks to Liz Mitchell from Calibre Book about some developments in their service and the 8,000 books on offer.
Tel: 01296 432 339
www.calibre.org.uk     
     
National Talking Newspaper      
Roland Myers talks to Cheryl Johnston about the price changes and reductions on subscriptions for some of the National Newspapers and Magazines, also details of formats available.
Tel: 01435 866102
email: info@tnauk.org.uk

Playback Website & Robobraille
Gordon Luke asks some questions regarding our website.
What would you like from our Website?
Is it accessible to you?
What changes would you like?
Contact Gordon by email at webmaster@play-back.org.uk with your suggestions.

Gordon also tells us about Robobraille – a free transcription service available online.
Robobraille contacts:
daisy@robobraille.org , 6dot@robobraille.org ,
britspeech@robobraille.org  or  convert@robobraille.org
www.robobraille.org  

Chuckle Corner
David Tanner with some humour from the office.

John finishes with some information from Visibility.