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
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
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
Oct 16, 2018 • 3min
Man Booker Prize 2018 Winner - Anna Burns 'Milkman' Review
Anna Burns is the 2018 Book Prize winner for her book Milkman. Anna doesn't like giving interviews so here's Red Szell with a review of the book.
Oct 16, 2018 • 58min
Man Booker Prize 2018 Shortlist Special
In a special show due to be broadcast at 8pm on the day of the Man Booker Prize, Robert Kirkwood and Red Szell go through the shortlist and talk to five of the authors up for this year's award.
With Robin Robertson, Richard Powers, Esi Edugyan, Daisy Johnson and Rachel Kushner.
Oct 15, 2018 • 3min
RNIB - 150th Anniversary wishes.
Authors, narrators, service users and much more wish RNIB a happy 150th!
Oct 12, 2018 • 58min
89: Man Booker Prize 2018
This week in Read On we are devoting the entire show to the 2018 Man Booker Prize.
Chair of judges Kwame Anthony Appiah will reveal this year’s shortlist and how it was arrived at.
Esi Edugyan introduces us to the phenomenal story of Washington Black.
Richard Powers waxes lyrical about trees.
And we hear from both the youngest author ever to have been shortlisted and the oldest living person to have received The Man Booker Prize for fiction.
Oct 12, 2018 • 17min
Man Booker Prize 2018 - Richard Powers
The Booker shortlisted author joins Robert Kirkwood down the line to discuss his book, 'The Overstory.'
Clipped from Read On #89
Oct 12, 2018 • 16min
Man Booker Prize 2018 - Esi Edugyan
The Man Booker Prize shortlisted author talked to Red Szell via Skype about her book, 'Washington Black.'
Clipped from Read On #89
Oct 10, 2018 • 13min
Special Feature - RNIB 150 - Thomas Rhodes Armitage
For the first time ever, sections of a book written by the founder of RNIB, have been specially recorded for RNIB Connect Radio.
Thomas Rhodes Armitage wrote about the formation of his society in 1871, and we'll let his words take up the story … It's read by talking book narrator David Thorpe and introduced by Robert Kirkwood.
Oct 10, 2018 • 22min
Booker Prize 2009 - Hilary Mantel
From the archives, Robert Kirkwood speaks to Booker Prize winning author Hilary Mantel when she first won the award in 2009.
Oct 5, 2018 • 58min
88: Live at the Wigtown Book Festival (2018)
With Red away in San Fransico this week, Robert Kirkwood recorded this packed show live on location at the Wigtown Book Festival and coming up today …
Robin Ince on a comedian's guide to what makes us human,
Broadcaster Sally Magnusson on her first novel and her links to Iceland,
Ann Cleeves on her last 'Shetland' book,
John Connell on his bestselling book about the humble cow,
William Davies on 'Nervous States,' a look at our new political reality,
Shaun Bythell on life at the Bookshop during the festival,
and Lee Randall with the books of her life.
Oct 5, 2018 • 9min
Booker Prize 2016 - Paul Beatty
Before the Booker Prize was announced in 2016, Robert Kirkwood spoke to Paul Beatty before he was declared the winner.
