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...
Latest episodes
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58 min
Read On Episode 500!
Read On Episode 500 shines a light inward rather than outward by celebrating people behind the scenes at the Talking Books studios, the library, at transcription, at RNIB Connect R…
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58 min
Spooky Books
On Read On today, a spooky compilation with Emelia Fang Creator Laura Ellen Anderson, Stranger Times writer Caimh McDonnell, Professor Richard Wiseman on the science of safe scares…
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58 min
Simon McCleave - DI Ruth Hunter, Frank Marshall and more
Today a chat with Simon McCleave on his many crime books set in Snowdonia and beyond, on leaving TV writing for novel writing and becoming a self-publishing success story.Plus we f…
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58 min
Natalie Livingstone - The Nuremberg Women & Cliveden Literary Festival
Today on Read On I talk to a co-founder of the annual Cliveden Literary Festival, Natalie Livingstone, about the book that sparked the idea for the festival and about her latest bo…
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58 min
Best Kept Secrets for Travelers With Sight Loss with Lynn Jensen
Best Kept Secrets for Travelers With Sight Loss lets people who are blind or have low vision enjoy travel with less fear and uncertainty. Robert Kirkwood talks to its author Lynn J…
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58 min
Wigtown Book Festival Gems
Today we look forward to The Wigtown Book Festival, (which starts on the day this episode is first broadcast) by listening to some authors I've previously talked to in Scotland's B…
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58 min
Stories of Love
This week on Read On, we're celebrating love in all its complicated forms.Robert Kirkwood chats to Fiona Lucas about her deeply emotional novel Always and Only You, a story of love…
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58 min
Val McDermid and Jo Sharp, plus RNIB Talk and Support Book Clubs
This week on Read On, Robert Kirkwood watches Jo Sharp and her wife Val McDermid record the introduction to the brand new book in the Darkland Tales series, This Door of the Seas a…
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58 min
Damian Barr, Amanda Barrie and Percival Everett
In today's Read On we talk to Damian Barr about his novel The Two Roberts and we hear from Coronation Street and Carry On actress Amanda Barrie about her memoir I'm Still Here - My…
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58 min
Crime Books
This week on Read On we investigate some different styles of crime. Anita Frank discusses her WW1 historical fiction murder mystery thriller, The Good Liars, we get cosy with Josie…
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58 min
The RHS Sandringham Talking Books Garden with Lynda La Plante, Richard Osman and more
Today we revisit the RHS Sandringham Flower Show to hear about RNIB's Talking Books Garden. With Toby Davey we hear from the people behind it, some visitor reactions, and hear excl…
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58 min
Gavin Francis, Stephen McGinty & Darren McGarvey - Boswell Book Festival
This episode of Read On contains subject matter that some listeners may find upsetting.Today Robert Kirkwood is recording on location at the Boswell Book Festival with Gavin Franci…
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58 min
History Books with Lucy Worsley, Kate Williams plus Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen
Today on Read On we revisit some favourite historians with Lucy Worsley on Jane Austen, Kate Williams on Rival Queens plus Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen on the history of…
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58 min
Dame Harriet Walter & Dougie Donnelly - Boswell Book Festival
Two very different authors this week on Read On, although with one thing in common, they both narrated the audio versions of the books they were speaking about at the Boswell Book…
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58 min
Inspired by Shakespeare
Today on Read On, three very different authors all inspired by Shakespeare, Michael Morpurgo on his Shakespeare retellings, Nydia Hetherington on her book about the witch from the…
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58 min
Frances Wilson - Electric Spark & Adam Hart - Operation Pimento - Boswell Book Festival
Today on Read On, two biographical tales recorded at the Boswell Book Festival. Robert Kirkwood talks to Frances Wilson about Electric Spark - The Enigma of Muriel Spark, and autho…
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58 min
Summer Books
Today on Read On, three summer themed books, One Girl One Summer with Isabel Ashdown, Hot Girl Summer with Sophie Gravia and Summer on a Sunny Island with Sue Moorcroft. All that p…
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58 min
Bec Manser - Wildheart
Today on Read On we hear from half spooky, half sparkly debut author Bec Manser on her debut novel Wildheart and we ask about RNIB's involvement in sensitivity reading around a bli…
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Gordon Buchanan at the Boswell Book Festival
Today on Read On we hear a full talk, sponsored by RNIB Connect Radio, from the Boswell Book Festival. Natural history cameraman Gordon Buchanan is in conversation with Robert Daws…
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7 min
Beth O'Brien wins the Carnegie Medal for Writing (and the Shadower's Award!)
Visually Impaired author Beth O'Brien has won the Carnegie Medal for Writing, the most prestigious award for authors of children's and young adult books.Wolf Siren reimagines Littl…