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produces the weekly news in a studio at Craven House, Victoria Road, Swindon.
Recording and distributing each weekly edition is essentially a team effort.
All volunteers work on a rota basis which ensures a variety of voices and
content are heard each week. The people heard on the recordings are supported
by an equal number of backroom volunteers, without whom the organisation
could not exist. Section
1 The
News
Each week,
the editor prepares a selection of news items taken from the Swindon
Advertiser, aiming for approximately 45 minutes of news. The news is recorded
on Wednesday evenings, using a team of four newsreaders drawn from the rota. Section
2
Features This
section is rather like the magazine section of a newspaper. It contains
individual features, often of particular local
interest, plus regular features. Regular features include What's On, Sport,
Thought for the week, and listeners' letters. Some features are recorded and
edited in advance, some are downloaded from the internet, and then compiled
together with the regular items that are recorded on Wednesday evenings. Copying
and distribution After
recording, the master memory stick is duplicated and each one checked for
sound quality. The memory sticks are then placed in individual wallets which
are then delivered to the post office. The postman usually delivers the
memory sticks to the listeners on Fridays. Listeners then have the weekend to
listen to them. They are asked to put the wallet back in the post on the
following Monday, although they can keep the stick for longer than a week if
they wish. Returning
memory sticks
On
Tuesdays and Wednesdays, the post office delivers the memory stick wallets
returned by listeners. Each wallet is logged onto the computer, rather like a
library system. One of the team will periodically check the computer database, and contact any listener who has not received or
returned a memory stick for several weeks. The memory sticks are reused each
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