''In Touch'' is a programme on BBC Radio 4 airing "news, views and information for people who are blind or partially sighted".

History

Janet Quigley Janet Muriel Alexander Quigley MBE (1902–1987) was a British radio broadcaster associated with the ''Today'' programme and ''Woman's Hour''. Life Quigley was born in Belfast in 1902, in the then United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. She ...

who had been promoted into BBC management in 1956 took a key role in launching the world's first national radio programme for blind people which was named ''In Touch''.Paul Donovan, ‘Quigley, Janet Muriel Alexander (1902–1987)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200
accessed 4 March 2017
/ref> ''In Touch'' began to be broadcast by the

BBC Home Service The BBC Home Service was a national and regional radio station that broadcast from 1939 until 1967, when it was replaced by BBC Radio 4. History 1922–1939: Interwar period Between the early 1920s and the outbreak of World War II, the BBC ...

in 1961, and was continued by

BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. It broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history from the BBC' ...

from 1967 with hosts including

David Scott Blackhall David Scott Blackhall was a radio personality, author and poet. Life and career He was born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire on 9 May 1910 to George William and Annie Blackhall. After an accident in his teens, in which he sustained a detached re ...

and Peter White. As of 2011, the programme is broadcast every Tuesday at 8:40pm UK time, and is 20 minutes in duration.BBC Radio 4 schedule
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References

External links

* BBC Radio 4 programmes {{UK-radio-show-stub