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
May 4, 2018 • 58min
66: CILIP Carnegie with Marcus Sedgwick, Anthony McGowan and Lauren Wolk
In our first CILIP Carnegie show of 2018 we chat to three of the shortlisted authors
Marcus Sedgwick on Saint Death,
Anthony McGowan on Rook,
And Lauren Wolk on Beyond the Bright Sea.
May 4, 2018 • 16min
Author Interview - Anthony McGowan
We chat to Anthony about 'Rook' his book shortlisted for the 2018 CILIP Carnegie Medal.
Clipped from Read On #66
Apr 27, 2018 • 58min
65: Laura Barnett, Minette Walters and 617 Squadron.
Laura Barnett blends writing and music in her new multi-media bestseller ‘Greatest Hits'.
Minette Walters reveals the parental dilemma at the heart of her latest novel.
And listener Jacqueline Brown recommends an account of wartime heroism by the RAF.
Apr 20, 2018 • 58min
64: Marion Rankine, Lucy Worsley and a listener's hidden gem.
Marion Rankine unfurls a history of the umbrella. (apologies for audio quality in some of this item)
Historian Lucy Worsley tells us why she thinks Jane Austen failed to find success in her own lifetime.
And listener John Banfield reveals how a classic tale of imprisonment and escape inspired him to write his own memoirs.
Apr 20, 2018 • 14min
Lucy Worsley - 'Jane Austen at Home: A Biography'
Historian Lucy Worsley tells us why she thinks Jane Austen failed to find success in her own lifetime.
Clipped from Read On 64
Apr 13, 2018 • 58min
63: Dave Steele, Liz Pichon and poetry from RNIB
In this episode Red Szell chats to Dave Steele about his poetry collections 'Stand by Me RP'.
Robert Kirkwood finds out about Liz Pichon's character Tom Gates.
And we hear some notable poems from last year's RNIB Writing Competition.
Apr 6, 2018 • 58min
62: Henry Blofeld, Neil Oliver and Caroline Lennon
As his memoir 'Over and Out' is released as an RNIB Talking Book at the same time as the print version, Red Szell talks to national treasure, Henry 'Blowers' Blofeld.
Caroline Lennon tells us about being a Talking Books narrator and about her life, and death, on The Archers.
And Neil Oliver talks to Robert Kirkwood from the other side of the world about conservation, history and his historical fiction.
Mar 30, 2018 • 58min
61: Tony Parsons, Phil Jupitus and Harriet Lane.
Tony Parsons chats to Red Szell about his work and being the 'Father of Man-Lit', Phill Jupitus discusses some of his favourite books, old and new, and with the stage version of 'Alys, Always' about to open in London we talk to Harriet Lane.
Mar 23, 2018 • 11min
Shaun Bythell - 'Diary of a Bookseller'
We go behind the counter and learn about the sometimes funny and sometimes frustrating life of owning a bookshop as Shaun Bythell talks about his 'Diary of a Bookseller'.
Clipped from the non-fiction 'best of' Read On episode 60, first played September 2017. Updated to include clips of the audiobook.
Mar 23, 2018 • 58min
60: Ben McIntyre, James Boswell and Shaun Bythell's ' The Diary of a Bookseller'
In a non-fiction 'best of' episode we learn about spies, double agents and espionage with Ben McIntyre, we go behind the scene's of The Bookshop in Wigtown with Shaun Bythell and learn about the father of biography, James Boswell.
