Read On - The Audiobook Show from RNIB

Read On - The Audiobook Show from RNIB

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 (https://twitter.com/Talking_Books) Other great podcast channels from RNIB Connect Radio Connect (https://audioboom.com/channel/weeklyconnect) - Our main channel with news, features and articles on sight loss. Conversations (https://audioboom.com/channel/conversations) - Blind and partially sighted people speaking about a wide range of topics. Tech Talk (https://audioboom.com/channel/techtalkpodcast) - Technology for blind and partially sighted people. Sport (https://audioboom.com/channel/sport) - See sport differently. The Happy Hour (https://audioboom.com/channels/5022411) - Mental health, mindfulness, and overall wellbeing. Tracks of My Life (https://audioboom.com/playlists/4634228-tracks-of-my-life) - Take a journey through our guest's life. Support (https://audioboom.com/channel/rnib-support) - Other podcasts from RNIB. TV Guide (https://audioboom.com/channel/tv-guide) - Daily audio TV listings

Episodes

422: Celia Silvani - Baby Teeth

May 2, 2025 • 57 mins
On this week's Read On, Robert Kirkwood chats to Celia Silvani about her debut novel Baby Teeth, a cautionary tale about how vulnerable, isolated people can be lured into toxic communities and the catastrophic consequences this can have. 

Trigger Warning: This interview contains discussions and references to pregnancy and infertility. There is also a scene of pregnancy loss in the book.
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421: Beth O'Brien - Wolf Siren

April 25, 2025 • 57 mins
This week on Read On a captivating chat with Beth O'Brien, visually impaired author of new HarperCollins Children’s Book 'Wolf Siren', which also has a visually impaired narrator. Beth talks about her writing, watching the narration process and her passion project, 'Disabled Tales.'
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420: Dame Stella Rimington - The Hidden Hand

April 18, 2025 • 57 mins
Stella Rimington was the first female director general of MI5 and brings true authenticity to her books about spying and espionage. She talks to Robert Kirkwood about her career, her Liz Carlyle books and her imagined end, plus her two new Manon Tyler books. Dame Rimington also talks about how her failing eyesight due to AMD is affecting her ability to write.

And for episode 420, we also find some influential musical ...
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419: Nydia Hetherington - Sycorax & A Girl Made of Air

April 11, 2025 • 57 mins
This week in Read On, author Nydia Hetherington tells us how living with a chronic yet hidden illness inspired her to write the untold story of Shakespeare's witch, Sycorax and also her debut novel, A Girl Made of Air. She also tells us how many spoons it took to narrate the audio version herself.  
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418: Chris Bridges - Sick to Death

April 4, 2025 • 57 mins
Emma is sick. Just not in the way you thought. 
In today's Read On - The Audiobook Show, we're mixing a thriller with a hidden disability in Chris Bridges debut novel Sick To Death. 
Plus we find some brand new books the RNIB Library, one written and read by actor, Brian Cox.
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417: Kate Kemp - The Grapevine plus Share The Vision

March 28, 2025 • 57 mins
In this week's Read On - The Audiobook Show we chat to debut novelist Kate Kemp about murder and intrigue on Warrah Place, a sweltering Australian suburban cul-de-sac, in her novel The Grape Vine.

We also hear from Mark McCree and Simon Savidge from Share the Vision, a coalition of UK organisations that work together to improve the quality, availability and accessibility of library services for visually impaired and p...
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416: Clare Mackintosh - Other People's Houses

March 21, 2025 • 57 mins
In today's Read On we enter the world of DC Ffion Morgan and DS Leo Brady with author Clare Mackintosh with the release of the third book in the series, Other People's Houses. We also listen back to earlier books from Clare and find some brand new books in the Talking Books library.
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415: Lucy Edwards - Blind Not Broken & Ella Jones vs The Sun Stealer

March 14, 2025 • 57 mins
In today's show we chat to blind broadcaster, social media creator and author, Lucy Edwards, about her books Blind Not Broken and Ella Jones vs The Sun Stealer, and about her campaigns for equality and becoming an RNIB ambassador.

We also find some brand new books entering the Talking Books library.
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414: Mari Hannah, Steve Hodson plus Maurice and Maralyn

March 7, 2025 • 57 mins
In today's show we hear about the new thriller from Mari Hannah, Her Sister's Killer, the latest in the Stone and Oliver series.

We also pay tribute to narrator Steve Hodson and hear from Nero book of the year Maurice and Maralyn by Sophie Elmhirst

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Tribute to narrator Steve Hodson

March 5, 2025 • 8 mins
A familiar and warm voice to listeners of RNIB Talking Books, and audiobook and radio drama listeners everywhere, Steve Hodson, has passed away at 77. 

We listen back to him telling us how he became a narrator, hear some stories and listen to a clip of one of his favourite books.

Photo of Steve. He has salt and pepper tousled hair and is staring to the side with an intense gaze. His soft white dress shirt is ...
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413: World Book Day with Tom Palmer

February 28, 2025 • 57 mins
In today's show a chat with World Book Day author Tom Palmer about his books on sport, history and his travels for research, plus we find out about the free books you can get this World Book Day from RNIB.
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412: Liz Hyder & Adam S Leslie - Nero Book Awards

February 21, 2025 • 57 mins
In today's show two category winners from the Nero Book Awards, Children's Fiction winner Liz Hyder on her book The Twelve, and Adam S Leslie with his Fiction category winning folk-horror, Lost in the Garden.
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Lucy Edwards - Ella Jones Vs the Sun Stealer (Extract)

February 19, 2025 • 6 mins
A short extract from my interview with Lucy Edwards about her new book Ella Jones Vs the Sun Stealer and about being an RNIB Ambassador. Full interview coming soon.
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411: Joanna Toye - A New Chapter at the Little Penguin Bookshop

February 14, 2025 • 57 mins
We're loved up this Valentines Day on Read On.

In Penguin Books 90th year, Robert Kirkwood chats to author Joanna Toye about the second book in the heart-warming, romantic, and uplifting world war two series about community, friendship and books, A New Chapter at the Little Penguin Bookshop.

And as this show is going out on Valentine's Day we find some new romance in the RNIB Library.
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410: Nigel Planer, Jo Caulfield and Richard Herring

February 7, 2025 • 57 mins
Another comedian compilation as we hear from stand-ups Jo Caulfield and Richard Herring and comedic actor, audiobook narrator and Neil from The Young Ones, Nigel Planer.

Plus we find some brand new books in the RNIB Library
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409: Rachel Kushner - Creation Lake

January 31, 2025 • 57 mins
This week on Read On, Robert Kirkwood chats to Rachel Kushner about her book Creation Lake, which is a taut, dazzling story of espionage and intrigue and beneath lies a tale of a woman caught in the crossfire between the past and the future. Thanks to The Booker Foundation it's available to borrow from RNIB in both audio and Braille.

Plus we find some new audiobooks out now and also in the RNIB Library.
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408: Charlotte Wood - Stone Yard Devotional

January 24, 2025 • 57 mins
Today we're joined by award winning Australian novelist Charlotte Wood who chats about her book Stone Yard Devotional, in which a women 'unsubscribes' from her life in the city to live in isolation with nuns, and a lot of mice!

We'll also hear some new books in the RNIB Library


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407: Yael van der Woulden - The Safekeep

January 17, 2025 • 57 mins
In today's show Robert Kirkwood has a long chat with Yael van der Woulden about her debut novel, The Safekeep, an exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge. 

We hear from Bart van Es about The Cutout Girl and find new books in the RNIB Library.
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406: A.J. West - The Betrayal of Thomas True and The Spirit Engineer

January 10, 2025 • 57 mins
In today's Read On Robert Kirkwood chats to author and narrator A.J. West about his books The Betrayal of Thomas True and The Spirit Engineer and why he didn't narrate them, but also about the book he is narrating, Death in the Sauna. Plus we find some new books in the RNIB Library.
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405: Recap of the Year - Part 2

January 3, 2025 • 57 mins
In our second look back at 2024, Momfluencers clash in Jesse Q. Sutanto's book You Will Never Be Me, Gregg Mosse tells us about The Coming Storm, we have a Hot Girl Summer with Sophie Gravia, Kirsten Miller tells us about Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books, Jo Piazza has A Sicilian Inheritance and we go Orbital with Booker winner Samantha Harvey.
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