''In Touch'' is a
programme on BBC Radio 4 airing "news, views and information for people who are
blind or partially sighted".
History
Janet Quigley
Janet Muriel Alexander Quigley MBE (1902–1987) was a British radio broadcaster associated with the ''Today'' programme and ''Woman's Hour''.
Life
Quigley was born in Belfast in 1902, in the then United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Sh ...
who had been promoted into BBC management in 1956 took a key role in launching the world's first national radio programme for blind people which was named ''In Touch''.
[Paul Donovan, ‘Quigley, Janet Muriel Alexander (1902–1987)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200]
accessed 4 March 2017
/ref> ''In Touch'' began to be broadcast by the BBC Home Service in 1961, and was continued by BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. It broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history from the BBC' ...
from 1967 with hosts including David Scott Blackhall and Peter White.
As of 2011, the programme is broadcast every Tuesday at 8:40pm UK time, and is 20 minutes in duration.BBC Radio 4 schedule
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References
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BBC Radio 4 programmes
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