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Centre for Sensory Impaired
17 Gullane Street
Partick
Glasgow
G11 6AH
Tel: 0141 334 2983
Fax: 0141 334 2983
Web: www.play-back.com
Best time to telephone: any reasonable time
Playback is a comprehensive recording service providing newspapers, magazines, a reading service and a tape library. The Playback Service will record anything requested for an individual or organisation if it is not available from another source, and copyright clearance has been given. The service sends out over 40,000 tapes each month with 20 regular publications.
- Main publications are: Playback Magazine, information and news for the visually impaired every month, and Sunday Mail and Daily Record Newspapers every week.
- The Playback library contains over 1,000 titles covering a wide range of subjects. Audio Described Videos are now also available on loan.
- All parts of the service are available free to blind and visually impaired people.
For further information contact the number above.
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