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04/10/2011

In Touch at 50 - looking back and looking forward. 04/10/11

BBC Radio 4 - In Touch, In Touch at 50 - looking back and looking forward. 04/10/11

As the programme turns 50, a look back at the past and a look forward to its future.

As the programme celebrates being 50 - we chat to past presenters about the challenges of working on the programme. Plus a look at the role it'll play in the future.

Fifty years ago this week the very first In Touch hit the airways on Network Three, the channel dedicated to minority programmes. We look at how the presenters over the years - all of whom have been visually impaired or blind - compiled their scripts and got to grips with working in radio.
Plus Peter White talks to Jane Copsey one of the early presenters and Damon Rose, founder and editor of the BBC's online programme for disabled people Ouch about the programme's future in the digital age.

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