Read On - The Audiobook Show from RNIB
RNIB Connect Radio
A weekly show all about audiobooks recorded at the RNIB Talking Book studios.
We talk to your favourite authors and narrators, along with reviews and news about new audiobooks.
Presented and produced by Robert Kirkwood, you'll find a new episode here every Friday at 1pm plus bonus content such as longer uncut interviews and episodes of our occasional extra show, The Book Group.
Talking Books is a free service from RNIB giving access to over 40,000 fiction and non fiction books for adults and children. Find out more by searching for RNIB Library.
Get involved and join the conversation by emailing radio@rnib.org.uk or find Robert on Twitter @Talking_Books
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Tech Talk - Technology for blind and partially sighted people.
Sport - See sport differently.
The Happy Hour - Mental health, mindfulness, and overall wellbeing.
Tracks of My Life - Take a journey through our guest's life.
Support - Other podcasts from RNIB.
TV Guide - Daily audio TV listings
We talk to your favourite authors and narrators, along with reviews and news about new audiobooks.
Presented and produced by Robert Kirkwood, you'll find a new episode here every Friday at 1pm plus bonus content such as longer uncut interviews and episodes of our occasional extra show, The Book Group.
Talking Books is a free service from RNIB giving access to over 40,000 fiction and non fiction books for adults and children. Find out more by searching for RNIB Library.
Get involved and join the conversation by emailing radio@rnib.org.uk or find Robert on Twitter @Talking_Books
Other great podcast channels from RNIB Connect Radio
Connect - Our main channel with news, features and articles on sight loss.
Conversations - Blind and partially sighted people speaking about a wide range of topics.
Tech Talk - Technology for blind and partially sighted people.
Sport - See sport differently.
The Happy Hour - Mental health, mindfulness, and overall wellbeing.
Tracks of My Life - Take a journey through our guest's life.
Support - Other podcasts from RNIB.
TV Guide - Daily audio TV listings
Episodes
Mentioned books
Jul 17, 2020 • 58min
178: Alyson Rudd and Mike Ingham MBE
Alyson Rudd takes us underground in her new suspense mystery ‘Eleven Lines to Somewhere’. (Starts at 0.40)
Former BBC football correspondent Mike Ingham discusses the recording of his autobiography ‘’After Extra Time and Penalties’ with Toby Davey (19.08)
And we return to Alyson Rudd for the Books of Her Life (45.11)
Jul 10, 2020 • 58min
177: Natasha Pulley, Anthony McGowan and Katerina Diamond
Natasha Pulley on her new Keita Mori novel, 'The Lost Future of Pepperharrow' (Starts at 0.44)
Anthony McGowan gives us his reaction to winning the 2020 CILIP Carnegie medal for his book 'Lark' (25.05)
Katerina Diamond on her crime thriller 'The Woman in the Water' (34.35)
And we return to Natasha Pulley for the books of her life (45.16)
Jul 3, 2020 • 58min
176: Mark Lynas, Joanna Toye and Dame Vera Lynne
Mark Lynas tells us about 'Our Final Warning - Six Degrees of Climate Emergency' (Starts at 0.45)Joanna Toye has a new shop girls book, this time the WW2 saga 'Heartache for the Shopgirls' (19.10)After her passing, we explore some books written by Dame Vera Lynn available from RNIB (35.14)And we return to Mark Lynas for the books of his life (47.00)
Jun 26, 2020 • 58min
175: Simon Stephenson, Lori Nelson Spielman and Tony Hawks
Simon Stephenson talks to Red Szell about 'Set My Heart to Five', the tale of a robot learning to love, which has already been sold to Hollywood. (Starts at 1.00)
Lori Nelson Spielman takes us on a virtual romantic trip in 'One Italian Summer' and we hear the books of her life (18.55)
From the archives Tony Hawks talks to Robert Kirkwood about his second book, 'Playing The Moldovans At Tennis' (37.47)
And we return to Simon Stephenson for the books of his life. (45.19)
Jun 19, 2020 • 58min
174: Afia Atakora, Sara Collins, Andrea Levy and Eric Motley
Afia Atakora explores Black Lives in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War in her new novel Conjure Women (Starts at 1.04)
We follow a servant and former slave girl from a Jamaican plantation to Georgian London in The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins (16.00)
We travel back in time to hear from the late Andrea Levy about her book The Long Song and how her father arrived in the UK on the Empire Windrush (31.14)
And travel from racially charged Alabama to the Oval Office with Eric Motley (40.45)
Plus there's a return to Afia Atakora for the books of her life. (49.00)
Jun 12, 2020 • 58min
173: Salman Rushdie, Nicola Cornick, Bella Osborne and Sue Lawrence's Cabin Fever Fables
Nicola Cornick takes us back to 1560 in her Tudor-set dual time book, The Forgotten Sister (Starts at 1.00)
Cookery writer and winner of Masterchef, Sue Lawrence joins Saraband books for Cabin Fever Fables (17.10)
Bella Osborne tells us about her new novel, Meet Me At Pebble Beach (28.00)
There's an update on the reopening of the RNIB Braille Library from Ali Long (42.06)
And we get the books of your life from Sir Salman Rushdie (48.08)
Jun 5, 2020 • 58min
172: Caroline Lawrence, Tim Finch and Cabin Fever Fables with Nicola Martin
Caroline Lawrence takes us to Ancient Greece in her 'Time Travel Diaries' (Starts at 0.45)Author Tim Finch and Red Szell negotiate some 'Peace Talks' (19.00)Nicola Martin reads from her debut novel, the thriller Dead Ringer for Saraband Books in her Cabin Fever Fable (31.30)And we return to Caroline Lawrence for the books of her life (48.15)
May 29, 2020 • 58min
171: Sarah Morgan, Alistair Petrie, Lucy Scott and more Cabin Fever Fables
Sarah Morgan escapes to the Lake District in her new novel, 'Family for Beginners' (Starts at 1.10)
Narrator couple Al Petrie and Lucy Scott talk about narrating for RNIB and the Talking Book as a theatre for one. (17.28)
Saraband Books have more Cabin Fever Fables, this time with Marion Dunn (36.00)
And we return to Sarah Morgan for the books of her life. (57.45)
May 22, 2020 • 58min
170: Ellen Alpsten, L.D. Lapinski and Gary Bridson-Daley
Ellen Alpsten tells us about 'Tsarina', the most powerful woman that history forgot. (Starts at 0.50)L. D. Lapinski takes us on a journey via the 'Strangeworlds Travel Agency' and gives us the books of her life. (21.45)Gary Bridson-Daley talks about his book 'The Last Heroes: Voices of British and Commonwealth Veterans' (37.15)And we return to Ellen Alpsten for the books of her life. (50.18)
May 15, 2020 • 58min
169: Hayley Doyle, Molly Flatt and David Farrier
In this week's show from the broom cupboard and bedroom,Hayley Doyle on her new rom-com, Never Saw You Coming (Starts at 1.00)Molly Flatt on the recording of her book, The Charmed Life of Alex Moore, plus we hear the books of her life (14.30)David Farrier explores what traces we will leave for the very deep future in his book 'Footprints' (31.05)And we return to Hayley Doyle for the books of her life (48.52)
