Editing Les Barker (section)

===''Guide Cats for the Blind''===
Barker also wrote a poem called ''Guide Cats for the Blind'' which later became the title track of a double fundraising CD for the British Computer Association of the Blind (BCAB). The Association runs a program called EyeT4all,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bcab.org.uk/eyet4all-project.html|title=EyeT4All Project - British Computer Association of the Blind|date=24 December 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081224044049/http://www.bcab.org.uk/eyet4all-project.html|access-date=14 August 2021|archive-date=24 December 2008}}</ref> which aims to make computers accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired. Barker also agreed to the recording of a series of albums. Over £40,000 has been raised.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pattynanmedia.com/452/515.html|title=Pat Tynan Media|website=Pattynanmedia.com|access-date=14 August 2021}}</ref>

Five "Guide Cats" albums have been produced, ''Guide Cats for the Blind'', ''Missing Persians File'', ''Top Cat, White Tie and Tails'', ''Cat Nav'' and ''Herding Cats''. The CDs contain performances of Barker's poems by members of the folk world such as [[June Tabor]], [[Martin Carthy]], [[Steve Tilston]], [[Mike Harding]] and [[Tom Paxton]] and well known figures including [[Jimmy Young (disc jockey)|Jimmy Young]], [[Nicholas Parsons]], [[Brian Perkins]], [[Terry Wogan]], [[Nicky Campbell]], [[Robert Lindsay (actor)|Robert Lindsay]], [[Prunella Scales]] and [[Andrew Sachs]].