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Talking History

 

Contact us:

 

Barrier Free

 

Phone: 07960 991531

Email:

barrierfree@bignbostin.com

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Talking History is a new project set up by the originators of Big n Bostin Heritage and Barrier Free Audio Production

Talking History combines our audio expertise with a very strong interest in community and oral history

Talking History can record your memories and produce high quality audio based programmes on CD

Our recent projects include:

 

West Bromwich Voices (1940s—1950s)

Audio CD produced by Anne Wilkins, Ray Gormley & Pete Millington

 

The Long and Winding Road by Pete Millington

A timeline of Disability history on PowerPoint

 

Proud to be Disabled

A 60 minute video documentary

Produced by Paul Boaler, Paul Woodfield & Pete Millington

 

If you would like your memories or those of a loved one recorded onto audio CD or your group would like to run an oral history project—why not contact us for a chat about your ideas?

Send an email to Talking History using the link below and we’ll give you a quote

 

The Return of the Prodigal Paddy

 

Read some chapters of an online book exploring Anglo Irish identity in Birmingham UK

Copyright Pete Millington

 

Listen to a sample track from one of our oral history interviews. Pete Millington in conversation with Len Tasker, a disabled gentleman from Coventry in his 90s who set up the first disability social club in the city in 1938.

 

In this part of the interview Len talks about his pioneering work launching a holiday bungalow for people with iron lungs in the early 1980s.

 

Listen To Track One

 

Listen To Track Two

 

Requires Windows Media Player

 

Look through the online PDF scrap book containing historical documents from Len’s archive of the

 

Coventry Enterprise Club