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
Dec 7, 2018 • 21min
StoryTeller: How to be an Audiobook Narrator
Red Szell chats to Audible Hall of Fame narrator Lorelei King and award-winning director Ali Muirden who tell all about what goes into audio book narration.
Clipped from Read On 97
Nov 30, 2018 • 58min
96: Cara Hunter, David Thorpe, Mitch Cullen and Kolymsky Heights
Cara Hunter takes us behind the veneer of genteel Oxford with Detective Inspector Fawley.Mitch Cullin reveals what Sherlock Holmes is up to aged 93.Narrator David Thorpe tells us about Nightingales in November.And Red Szell reviews the spy story that 007 author Anthony Horowitz selected as one of the books of his life.
Nov 27, 2018 • 32min
The Book Group - The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau by Graeme Macrae Burnet
This time our blind and partially sighted readers discuss the RNIB Talking Book of 'The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau' by Graeme Macrae Burnet.
Nov 23, 2018 • 58min
95: Book Week Scotland (2018)
This week Read On is celebrating Book Week Scotland with the Scottish Book Trust.
Every year RNIB produce the audio version of the free Book Week Scotland book, and this year it's called Rebel.
Listen out for a selection of short stories about Drag Nuns, Chunky Boots, fare dodging, stealing cakes and much more.
And for a free copy of the book in audio head to http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/reading/book-week-scotland/rebel-audiobook
Nov 20, 2018 • 58min
94: The Guilty Feminist, I Sold My Guide Dog on Ebay and more
This week...
Deborah Frances White reveals what makes her ‘The Guilty Feminist’.
Poet Aidan Flynn takes a funny and poignant look at sight loss.
Author NB Dixon reviews a new Hercule Poirot mystery.
And RNIB Chair Ellie Southwood shares her passion for books and reading.
Nov 20, 2018 • 4min
Book Review - Mystery of Three Quarters
N.B. Dixon reviews the latest Poirot from Sophie Hannah.
Clipped from Read On #94
Nov 9, 2018 • 58min
93: The Armistice in Literature
This week were commemorating the centenary of the Armistice that brought an end to the First World War.
Blind author Gordon Anthony describes dog-fights over the desert in his Great War story ‘Hunting Icarus’.
As Blind Veterans UK unveils a unique monument to commemorate The Armistice, and we reflect upon our shared history.
Writer Lisa Andrews tells us about working with 26characters and the Imperial War Museums to bring First World War stories back to life.
And Robert Kirkwood explores the role played by women during the 1914 – 18 War.
Nov 9, 2018 • 16min
Author Interview - Gordon Anthony
Gordon Anthony is the author of several historical novels including ‘Hunting Icarus’.
It’s a gripping tale and there’s also a story behind the Talking Book version.
Red Szell talks to Gordon and Robert Kirkwood chats to his sister Moira.
Clipped from Read On #93
Nov 2, 2018 • 58min
92: Spike Milligan, Julian Clary and Michael Bentine
With never before heard clips, Robert Kirkwood explores the recording of Spike Milligan's War Diaries.
Hannah Tausz explores Michael Bentine's Book 'Doors of the Mind',
and Julian Clary tells us all about 'The Bolds'
Nov 2, 2018 • 34min
Recording Spike Milligan's War Diaries
Great news folks!
Some never heard before Spike Milligan!
Robert Kirkwood speaks to Robert Nichol about recording the audio versions of Spike's War Diaries and how it was working with Spike himself, while reviewing the books from Volume 1 Adolf Hitler my part in his Downfall to Volume 7, Peace Work.
Includes some out-takes never heard in public before.
