Sheffield Talking News
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This is the podcast channel for Sheffield Talking News. Our mission is to provide local news content and other items of interest to blind and visually impaired people in Sheffield. We currently have over 150 clients receiving weekly USB sticks with an interesting balance of news and feature stories, which are read aloud by our team of volunteers. We also produce 8 editions each year of our..
Sheffield Talking News
2d ago
One of our short Out and About articles, this time about Visually Impaired Tennis ..read more
Sheffield Talking News
2w ago
This week’s articles include items about the Gladiators TV series, the musical Sweeney Todd, butterflies, the Sheffield Blitz, lost property on trains, changes to Sheffield city centre, and several items about food ..read more
Sheffield Talking News
1M ago
The new edition of our Talk About magazine contains, among others, articles about Easter and Easter eggs, Rogers and Hammerstein, Vera, a trip to Nottingham, a gift of hair, and Torville and Dean, together with a craft and a recipe ..read more
Sheffield Talking News
1M ago
This week we hear about Sheffield’s oldest waitress, the 160th anniversary of the Great Sheffield Flood, updates on Sheffield’s travel plans, how to safeguard our pets at Easter time, and a walking group that helps combat loneliness ..read more
Sheffield Talking News
1M ago
This edition includes plans to alter our city centre and how our buses are run, Sight Support Derbyshire's befriending scheme, memories of Supertram's last 27 years and of the 1984/5's miners' strike, a sailor who distributed Henderson’s Relish around the world, changes in the English language, Sheffield's steepest road, and Tom Cruise in Bakewell ..read more
Sheffield Talking News
1M ago
This edition includes the date for the presentation of our King’s Award for Voluntary Service, lack of funds for school repairs, Sheffield-based musical Standing at Sky’s Edge in London theatres, controversial permission for a betting shop despite warnings, “Mixmups”, a children’s programme including characters with disabilities, Sheffield council’s new heritage strategy and changes to Supertram ..read more
Sheffield Talking News
2M ago
This new Talk About Magazine is on the theme of love – it includes a sprinkling of poems, a tourist guide to the city of love, a short melodrama, a quiz, and Florence Nightingale’s great love of numbers ..read more
Sheffield Talking News
2M ago
This week's edition of the news includes articles on pay levels of workers in the social care sector, a rare plant in a local park, South Yorkshire bus delays, a campaign to save the steel industry, banned books, and a pet detective using a drone to locate missing dogs ..read more
Sheffield Talking News
3M ago
This week's edition of the news includes articles about a Sheffield ultra runner, concerns about road safety near schools, Sheffield’s favourite teacher, the opening of a new food hall, praise for Henry’s Café in Firth Park and a new Tesco Express store on Trafalgar Street ..read more
Sheffield Talking News
3M ago
This week we cover items ranging from the effects of the national Post Office scandal on a sub-postmistress in Sheffield to food insecurity issues amid the cost-of-living crisis. We also cover the filming of the new Gladiators at Sheffield arena, a new “lifeline” cancer treatment being used at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, a 19th century Royal Navy cannon fished out of the river Don, and some of the people receiving honorary doctorates from the University of Sheffield.  ..read more