Hear Is The News

The talking newspaper Chatterbox – which also records EDP Norfolk magazine for blind and visually impaired listeners each month - is celebrating a special anniversary

 YOU may well have walked or driven past it, especially if you’ve been to see Norwich City play at Carrow Road. Recently it has been given a bright new ‘shopfront’ with its name and logo above the door, but still, to the passerby there are not many clues to the fantastic work, dedication and brilliant service that happens here.

Petersen House, on King Street, Norwich, is the home – and recording studio – of Chatterbox, which provides a talking newspaper and magazine service for listeners who are blind or visually impaired. In March it celebrates its 40th anniversary and 2,000th edition of the recording which goes out to hundreds of listeners with a visual or associated disability around Norwich and beyond each week.