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We welcome new listeners from Keynsham, Bristol, Bath and anywhere in the country.

Our longest-standing listener has been listening for 30 years.

The service is free to people who are partially sighted or unable to read newsprint and is sent out in the post on a memory stick each week. It is also available via the Listen Online feature on the website.

So if you or someone you know is unable to read newsprint, we would be delighted to supply them with the KTN service.

If they do not have the means to play memory sticks, we can supply an easy-to-use box to play them on. The service is also now available via our Listen Online feature on the website.

Enjoy our local news section with items from local papers as well as our magazine section with a wide choice of topics from historic places, local personalities, to recipes and information on changes in National Benefits and entitlements.

For more information contact: 01172993021

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From our Chairman

The service is free to people who are partially sighted or unable to read newsprint and is sent out in the post on a memory stick each week and is available to access on our website via Listen Online.

So if you or someone you know is unable to read newsprint, we would be delighted to supply them with the KTN service.

Photo left shows KTN recording a Christmas edition at St Dunstan's church in Keynsham.

The committee celebrating 1500th audio issue

Left to right:

Mike Corrigan
Chief Technician

Tricia Scammell
Committee Member

Mary Burnard
Founder / listener Liaison

Alan Hale
Former Chairman of Bath & North East Somerset, and since 2024 Chairperson of KTN

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Catherine Dhanjal

KTN Secretary

Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Keynsham & District Talking Newspaper (1983-2023)

By Catherine Dhanjal September 26, 2023

On Saturday 16th September 2023 we held a tea party in Keynsham to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Keynsham & District Talking Newspaper. Chairman, Mike Crane, said: Thank you to all of you who came to St Dunstan’s Church to celebrate with us. We received over 80 responses to the invitations we sent out, and in particular…

40 years anniversary

40 years!

By Catherine Dhanjal January 16, 2023

This year we celebrate 40 years since the KTN was started!   Watch out for more news in the summer!

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Sarah Barrett, Presenter for the News Team

By Catherine Dhanjal January 10, 2022

“I volunteered as a reader on the news team over 15 years ago. I was amazed at the number of people involved with producing the recordings each week. Back then a rota of presenter and three other readers join the technician in our studio where the editor has already delivered the local news cuttings. Half…

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Tricia Scammell, Committee Member

By Catherine Dhanjal December 31, 2021

“I joined KTN when it was still at the planning stage and interested people were sitting around Mary’s kitchen table.I joined the magazine side(we used cassettes in those days). We used to meet one afternoon a week in someone’s house and the recording equipment was kept in that house for a month and then moved…

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Keynsham & District Talking Newspaper

By admin May 12, 2021

Did you enjoy reading but now experience difficulty due to poor eyesight or blindness? The KTN service is free to people…

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Bill Bailey becomes patron of the Keynsham Talking Newspaper

By admin January 29, 2019

We are delighted to announce that Bill Bailey, the much-loved comedian, musician, and actor, has become patron of the…