Reading podcast

Calling all bookworms!

RNIB's reading themed podcasts bring you book news and reviews, author interviews, RNIB National Library Service updates and much more.

Includes highlights from Read on magazine.

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RNIB's Peter Atkins explains ebooks

Last month as part of Love Libraries Week RNIB National Library Service hosted introductory sessions to ebook readers. Peter Atkins, from RNIB's Media and Culture Department, demonstrated four ebook players - the Sony, Amazon Kindle, Kobo and iPad and gave participants the opportunity to play with them. This was the first time that many of the attendees had had the chance to get their hands on these machines and see which one would suit them best.

Author profile - Stephen Kelman

Stephen Kelman talked to Insight Radio's Robert Kirkwood about his Booker Prize nominated first novel Pigeon English.

Kate Morton promoting her new book, The Distant Hours

Kate Morton speaks about her new book, The Distant Hours. The story: Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long lost letter arrives with the return address of Milderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her mother's emotional distance masks an old secret.

Book box - for children and young people

Judith Kerr, the author and illustrator of much loved children's story The Tiger Who Came to Tea, is still going strong at the age of 87. Judith also wrote the Mog books and also a beautiful story for older children titled When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, which was based on her experience of fleeing Nazi Germany as a child. We spoke to her at the Cheltenham Book Festival.

Alexander McCall Smith interview

In addition to writing, Alexander McCall Smith became a respected expert on medical law and bioethics and served on international committees. He is probably best known as the creator of The no. 1 ladies' detective agency. Clare Carson interviewed him at the Cheltenham Literary Festival.

Emma Donoghue interview

Shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, Emma Donoghue spoke to James Butterworth from RNIB's Insight Radio about her novel, Room.

Author profile - John Boyne

John Boyne talks about writing for a young audience whilst dealing with incredibly difficult subject matter in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, and we ask him what he would miss most if he lost his sight.

Author profile - Jo Brand

Jo Brand has had a diverse career beginning as a psychiatric nurse, moving on to stand up comedy and then writing for a living. Clare Carson interviewed her at Cheltenham Literary Festival where she talked about her autobiography 'Look back in hunger' and her semi-autobiographical novel 'It's different for girls'.

Reading through audio

We chat to Val Worley who is a great fan of talking books. Val is registered blind and says that talking books became a lifeline after the blow of being told she was losing her sight.

A passion for poetry - An interview with Simon Armitage

Before Simon Armitage became a poet and playwright he was a probation officer and before that he stacked shelves at a local supermarket. He has recently published The poetry of birds - with his friend and radio producer Tim Dee. Clare Carson caught up with him at the Cheltenham Festival.

Contact: webeditor@rnib.org.uk

Last updated: 10 February 2012