This page enables you to download or listen online to our four most recent weekly programmes and our most recent Quarterly Magazine – as distributed free-of-charge on USB stick to our registered listeners.

Below those five programmes are links that enable you to hear features included in earlier editions: audiobook reviews (‘Talking Bookshelf’), Sounds of Wildlife (courtesy of The Wildlife Recording Society), Interviews (Writers Forum, Community Matters, Me & My Job, Three Religions, and others), ten conversations with Stephen de Silva (Head Guide at St Albans Cathedral), various pieces about St Albans Museum & Gallery, readings of their work by members of the Ver Poets, Nature Notes, a series of memoirs by local writer Tom McNab, and a fascinating two-part documentary (A County at War: Life on the Home Front in Hertfordshire in World War One). Other series and items are added over time.

Just click on the heading and select which one you wish to hear.

St Albans & District Talking News contributes each week to ‘TNF Soundings’, a service which enables all affiliates of the Talking News Federation (TNF) anywhere in the UK to share items of more than just local interest. We are proud to contribute several of our regular series to this nationwide project.

Our programmes are also uploaded each week to ‘Speech Talking Newspaper’, the app created by the British Wireless for the Blind Fund (BWBF), through which they are then available on smart speakers.

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Sounds Of Wildlife Sound recordings by members of the Wildlife Sound Recording Society

St Albans Museum+Gallery Articles about St Albans Museum+Gallery

Tom McNab Articles by Tom McNab

Interviews Interviews with a wide variety of local people covering an equally wide range of topics.

Talking Bookshelf Reviews and discussions of audio-book titles –some new releases and a few old favourites – including extracts from the recordings by kind permission of Calibre Audio (www.calibre.org.uk).

Nature Notes The Herts Advertiser’s nature correspondent Rupert Evershed reads his monthly column.

A County at War: Life on the Home Front in Hertfordshire Howard Guard talks with Jill Burridge in two sessions about his film, ‘A County at War’, made in 2014 to mark the start of the First World War and the impact on the local community as well as the tragic losses by The Hertfordshire Regiment at the Battle of Passchendaele (The Third Battle of Ypres) in 1917. Includes extracts from the film.

Community Matters Interviews with a wide range of local charities and volunteer groups – a joint venture with our local community radio station, Radio Verulam (92.6 FM – www.radioverulam.com).

Me & My Job Interviews with local people about themselves and their work.

Ver Poets Poems written and read by the local Ver Poets group.

St Albans Cathedral Stephen de Silva, an award-winning Cathedral Guide and former Cathedral Warden, has recorded many conversations with Rob Pearman about the past and present of this iconic building. This archive of discussions about St Albans Cathedral also includes a conversation with the organiser of the Cathedral’s 2018 commemoration of the end of WW1 (‘Poppyfields’).

Three Religions- One God? Three local community leaders – who worked together in the Fleetville area of St Albans over some years – discuss the similarities and differences between Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Writers’ Forum A collection of articles by local writers.

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