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

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.

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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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404: Recap of the Year - Part 1

December 27, 2024 • 57 mins
In today's round up of the first half of 2024 we hear from Hiba Noor Khan and Sophia's War, we visit Harlem After Midnight with author Louise Hare, Michael McGee stays Close to Home, Becky Holmes tells us Keanu Reeves is Not in Love With You, Lynda Marron has a Last Chance in Paris and we talk about The Beholders with Hester Musson.
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403: Michael Morpurgo, D&D, and some Christmas Books

December 20, 2024 • 57 mins
In today's festive show we have a new chat with one of Britain's best loved children's authors, Sir Michael Morpurgo OBE, about retelling the bard's work for a modern audience in his Tales from Shakespeare and we get to bring in games in the form of live D&D shows in the RNIB Library, and we find some festive and not so festive brand new audiobooks.
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402: Fiona Lucas - Always and Only You

December 13, 2024 • 57 mins
What would you do if you walk down the aisle and find the wrong man waiting for you? And no-one else sees anything wrong?

This week a return visit from Fiona Lucas with her deeply emotional story of love, secrets and second chances, Always and Only You. Plus we find four brand new books in the RNIB Library.

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401: Anita Frank - The Good Liars

December 6, 2024 • 57 mins
This week we chat to Anita Frank about the Sunday Times bestselling WW1 historical fiction murder mystery thriller, The Good Liars. Plus we find some brand new audio out now and also available from RNIB.
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400: Anne Michaels - Held

November 29, 2024 • 57 mins
In today’s 400th episode of Read On – The Audiobook Show, Robert Kirkwood chats to Anne Michaels about her book ‘Held’, which last week was the winner of the $100K Giller Prize in Canada. The audio version of the book, which was also Booker shortlisted in the UK, is narrated by the author and she tells us why she was the only person for the job.

We also find some brand new books in the RNIB Library and have a very qui...
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399: Rachel Greenlaw - The Woodsmoke Women's Book of Spells plus Blind Poet Dave Steele

November 22, 2024 • 57 mins
This week author Rachel Greenlaw tells us about a cosy new tale of witches, magic, mystery, family and romance, The Woodsmoke Women’s Book of Spells plus we here from Blind Poet Dave Steele about The Big Test. All that plus some new books in the RNIB Library.

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