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 5, 2018 • 12min
Booker Prize 2013 - Eleanor Catton
From the archives, Robert Kirkwood speaks to Eleanor Catton, just before she wins the Booker Prize in 2013
Oct 5, 2018 • 12min
Booker Prize 2012 - Hilary Mantel
From the archives, Robert Kirkwood speaks to Booker Prize winning author Hilary Mantel.
Oct 5, 2018 • 13min
Booker Prize 2011 - Julian Barnes
From the archives, Robert Kirkwood talks to Julian Barnes about 'The Sense of an Ending' before it won the Booker in 2011
Sep 28, 2018 • 58min
87: Catherine Cookson Week
This week we're exploring the life, legacy and literature of one of the countries best loved authors – Catherine Cookson.
We explore her extraordinary life with her biographer, Kathleen Jones.
Discover some of the artefacts at the South Shields museum dedicated to preserving her memory.
Narrator Elizabeth Proud reminisces about recording Cookson’s novels for the RNIB Talking Books Library.
And we immerse ourselves in the harsh realities of the ‘The 15 Streets’.
Sep 27, 2018 • 9min
Catherine Cookson Week - Tom and Catherine
It's Catherine Cookson Week on RNIB Connect Radio and all week we're celebrating one of the UKs best loved authors and thanking the Catherine Cookson Charitable trust for their continued support of RNIB and the Talking Books service.
Today playwright Tom Kelly chats about the musical Tom and Catherine, which charts Catherine Cookson and her husband's 50 year marriage.
Sep 21, 2018 • 58min
86: Continuing the Classics with Sophie Hannah, David Brawn and Lynn Shepherd
This week we’ll be using our little grey cells to investigate some new developments in classic crime...
Sophie Hannah tells us why Hercule Poirot is working with a new partner, and her publisher talks about how the collaboration came about.
Lynn Shepherd discusses adding crime scenes to stories inspired by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens.
And Red finds the book in The Library that made me want to be a crime writer.
Join the conversation by emailing readonair@rnib.org.uk
Sep 14, 2018 • 58min
85: Tessa Fontaine, Deborah Harkness, and a nuclear reaction.
This week we’re going transatlantic with some great contemporary tales from America.
Tessa Fontaine tells us about running away to join the circus, in her memoir ‘The Electric Woman’.
Paul Birchard recounts the remarkable story of ‘The Boy Who Played With Fusion’.
And Deborah Harkness talks about transforming ‘A Discovery of Witches’ from best-selling books to primetime TV.
Join the conversation on readonair@rnib.org.uk
Sep 13, 2018 • 4min
Roald Dahl at the RNIB Talking Book Studios
A listen to Roald Dahl at the Talking Books studios from 1986, introducing and narrating his first children's book, 'James and the Giant Peach'.
Sep 7, 2018 • 58min
84: Texas Hold 'Em and more
Today we’re raising the stakes and opening some books on betting.
Debut author Martin Nathan discusses writing and playing poker with blind friends.
Biographer Anthony Holden delves into the history of poker and its importance in his life.
Victoria Coren-Mitchell shares her confessions of a poker player and what it’s like to win a million.
And racehorse owner Alan Pickering discusses a life spent with sight loss and pensions.
Sep 3, 2018 • 48min
The Book Group - The Rules of Seeing by Joe Heap
Our blind and partially sighted Book Group discuss a book with sight loss at its core, The Rules of Seeing by Joe Heap.
Please note there are some small SPOILERS in this episode but as its a book that has been just released we avoided talking about its later chapters ... at least while the mics were still on!
