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
Aug 24, 2018 • 58min
82: Lissa Evans, Sam West and Anthony McGowan
Lissa Evans chats about her books 'Old Baggage' and Wed Wabbit, Anthony McGowan narrates his own books for RNIB and Sam West on narrating new versions of 'The House of Cards' trilogy.
Aug 17, 2018 • 58min
81: Bernard Cornwell, Huw Parmenter and Moira Forsyth.
Red Szell chats to Moira Forsyth about her book 'A Message from the Other Side' and about her work at publisher Sandstone Press.
Bernard Cornwell chats to Robert Kirkwood about Sharpe, the Black Prince and listening to audio books in the car.
And we chat to Huw Parmenter, who recently narrated 'The Colour of Bee Larkham's Murder' by Sarah J Harris, about his work as an actor and preparing a book for narration.
Aug 10, 2018 • 58min
80: The Distance Between Me and the Cherry Tree by Paola Peretti
We explore a new book inspired by the author's own sight-loss journey, 'The Distance Between Me and the Cherry Tree'.
We chat to its author Paola Peretti and go behind the scenes with its publisher, translator and audio book narrator.
We also have another great review from blind author N.B. Dixon and explore the Summer reading Challenge from RNIB.
Aug 3, 2018 • 58min
79: The Rules of Seeing by Joe Heap
We devote a whole show to a brand new book with sight loss at its core, 'The Rules of Seeing' by Joe Heap.
We talk to its author Joe Heap, its narrator Cariad Lloyd and hand the book to our Connect Radio Book Group to get their verdict.
Jul 27, 2018 • 58min
78: Book Festival Special
On today's show we round up some favourite interviews from Book Festivals such as Aye Write, Boswell and Wigtown.
Featuring Alexander McCall Smith, Anne de Courcy, Jessica A Fox, Mark Ellan and Martin Jarvis.
Jul 20, 2018 • 58min
77: Alan Bennett, Angie Thomas, N.B. Dixon and more
In a packed show, blind author N.B. Dixon talks to Red Szell about re-imagining Robin Hood.
Alan Bennett chats to Robert Kirkwood about awards, writing and Family Guy.
Angie Thomas on 'The Hate U Give' and winning the CILIP Amnesty Honour.
New College Worcester student Carys White on her love of books and accessible reading.
And we listen to new recordings of 'House of Cards'.
Jul 20, 2018 • 12min
Carys White on Accessible Literature
CILIP Carnegie shadower Carys White tells the audience at this year's award ceremony about accessible formats and chats to Red Szell about her love of reading and literature.
Clipped from Read On #77
Jul 13, 2018 • 58min
76: RNIB Writing Competition
We listen to the winning entries in the poetry and prose categories of the 2018 RNIB Writing Competition plus talk to the winners and listen to the two runner ups.
Also judge Patrick Gale gives us some hints and tips.
Jul 6, 2018 • 58min
75: The Golden Man Booker Prize
This year, the Man Booker Prize is celebrating its 50th anniversary. To mark the special event, a one-off Golden Man Booker Prize is being given to a previous winner crowning the overall best work of fiction from the last five decades of the prize.
The five books thought to have best stood the test of time are: In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul; Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively; The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje; Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel; and Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders.
We listen to them all and talk to some of the authors on the shortlist in this Man Booker special.
Jun 29, 2018 • 58min
74: Nicholas Parsons, Agatha Christie and The Animals of Farthing Wood
Broadcasting legend Nicholas Parsons gives us the scoop on why he was absent from Just A Minute for the first time in 50 years.
RNIB Library Collection Development Assistant Lynne Livingstone brings us some fabulous news about a new collection of Talking Books.
Author and listener N B Dixon reviews a classic woodland tale.
And Sarah J Harris gives us a final peek behind the scenes of ‘The Colours of Bee Larkham’s Murder.
