Today, almost 30,000 blind and partially sighted adults and children use Talking Books and the RNIB library is the largest of its kind in Europe. The National Institute for the Blind (now RNIB) and St Dunstan’s (now Blind Veterans UK) joined forces to create the Sound Recording Committee, which originally recorded Talking Books onto records to be played on gramophones.
The service was launched in 1935 to help soldiers who had been blinded in the First World War and who were struggling to learn braille. RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People), the charity that runs the service, made the announcement to mark the 80th anniversary of Talking Books. THE TALKING Books service, which provides 4,000 audio books every single day to people with sight loss, is now free for all blind and partially sighted people.
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