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
Sep 19, 2017 • 17min
Author Interview - Emma Flint
Red Szell chats to Emma Flint about her love of crime and her novel, 'Little Deaths'
Sep 15, 2017 • 58min
34: Little Deaths, Clover Moon and The Theory of Everything
In today's show Red Szell talks to Emma Flint about her book 'Little Deaths' retelling a shocking New York murder, Madeline Brolly talks about accents for Talking Books, Robert Kirkwood discovers some Stephen Hawking works in the Talking Books library and Jacqueline Wilson talks about her latest book.
Sep 8, 2017 • 58min
33: Ben MacIntyre, Ruta Sepetys and Lin Anderson on Bloody Scotland,
Lin Anderson tells Red Sell about Bloody Scotland, Ben MacIntyre talks about spies and espionage and Ruta Sepetys talks about winning this year's Cilip Carnegie medal.
Sep 1, 2017 • 58min
32: Travel Special with Bill Bryson, Jasper Winn, and John Keay.
Red Szell talks to Jasper Win about his book Paddle where he circumnavigates Ireland in a kayak. Robert Kirkwood chats to historian John Keay about blind traveller John Holman and to Bill Bryson about America in 1927. Ken Reid gives us the books of his life and the books he raised money for by cycling around the UK and Red reviews a spoof travel guide.
Aug 31, 2017 • 28min
The Death of Diana - A Talking Books Special read by Jim Broadbent
Read by Jim Broadbent exclusively for RNIB Talking Books, the Death of Diana by David Lodge is the author's reflections of Diana as a public figure and an attempt to understand the outpouring of grief felt 20 years ago.
Aug 25, 2017 • 58min
31: Graeme Macrae Burnet - Live at the Edinburgh International Book Festival (2017)
Author of the year 2017, Graeme Macrae Burnet, joined Robert Kirkwood on stage for a live recording of Read On Air and told us the story behind 'His Bloody Project', The Disappearance of Adele Badeau' and the upcoming 'Accident on the A35'.
Aug 18, 2017 • 58min
30: Live at the Edinburgh International Book Festival with Red Szell
As we look forward to this year's event in Edinburgh, let's go back to 2016 with Robert Kirkwood interviewing the host of Read On, Red Szell about his book, 'The Blind Man of Hoy'.
Aug 16, 2017 • 58min
29: Oscar Winning Books
A short history of the Oscars and a listen to some books that have been adapted into winners of the Best Picture Academy Award.
Aug 4, 2017 • 58min
28: Children's and YA with Jonathan Meres, Zana Fraillon and Lari Don.
In another look at books for a younger audience we chat to Zana Fraillon about The Bone Sparrow, Jonathan Meres about the end of 'The World of Norm', and Lari Don about Mind Blind.
Jul 28, 2017 • 58min
27: Michael Bond, Sebastian Faulks and Laurence Bouvard
Sebastian Faulks talks about 'Where My Heart Used to Beat, we remember Michael Bond, there's the story of an Indian epic and more from narrator Laurence Bouvard.
