''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 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
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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. The station replaced the BBC Home Service on 30 September 1967 and broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes from the BBC's headquarters at Broadcasti ...

from 1967 with hosts including David Scott Blackhall and Peter White. As of 2011, the programme is broadcast every Tuesday at 8:40pm

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, and is 20 minutes in duration.BBC Radio 4 schedule
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