Talking News
Talking News provides you with free, up-to-date recordings of news publications from the local area including our own weekly guide to what activities and events are happening.
Talking News is available digitally through the Galloways Alexa Skill, on your smart phone as well as right here on our Digital Hub.
We have compiled guides to access your local news in audio format on a range of devices so you can follow step by step instructions tailored to your preferred listening device. These guides are available digitally, in large print and in audio. If you would prefer instructions on accessing the Talking News in a different format, such as Braille, please contact us and we will be more than happy to provide it.
How to access on the Galloways Alexa Skill
These guides will help you listen to Galloways Talking News on Alexa-enabled devices.Â
Alexa device or app – Large print
How to access on a smart phone
These guides will help you listen to Galloways Talking News on smart phones.Â
Apple app (iOs devices such as iPhone, iPad etc.) – Large print
Audio instructions will be coming in April 2025, so please check back soon if you prefer this format. You can also reach out for support on using any of these devices if you are blind or partially sighted, and we would be delighted to offer support.
Contact our team on 01772 744148 or contact us for support online.
Accessing through the British Wireless for the Blind app.
Click any of the publication names below and you will be taken straight to the player to listen to your chosen publication.
Lancaster Guardian/ Morecambe Visitor
Accessing Talking Books
In Touch: BBS Radio 4’s accessible news programme
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qxww/episodes/downloads
Audio Plays & Dramas
BA Screenwriting and the School of Arts and Media at the University of Lancashire proudly presents an ongoing series of short audio dramas written by second-year students and performed by the university’s talented acting students. All plays directed by Screenwriting Course Leader Tom O’Boyle and recorded/produced by David Farragher. Special thanks to Course Leader for Acting, Terence Chapman.
Thank you for listening. More plays to come!
“The Pals”, a wartime drama written by Liam Atkinson
A group of local lads struggle to survive in the face of impossible odds in the trenches of WW1. Meanwhile, A mother fights a war of her own back home in England, desperate to see her son returned to her after he faked his age to sign up for duty. Will she be able to bring him home before it’s too late?
“Her At Number 67”, a black comedy written by Samuel Baguley
Dorothea is the queen of her Cul de sac. That is until a new resident threatens her reign. A war ensues between curtain-twitching suburban competitors… with higher stakes than they realise.
