Children's Talking Books
The best of the spoken word from RNIB's Talking Book Studios.
New episodes every Saturday at 9am with a repeat on Sunday at 3pm and Tuesday at 6pm.
Enjoy an unabridged audiobook for the young or young at heart, serialised over a number of weeks, only on RNIB Connect Radio. Our featured books are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll played back to back.
Conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain Alice Liddell, the daughter of the dean of Carroll's college, the dream worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom depict order turned upside-down. Following the white rabbit into his warren, Alice falls into a world where croquet is played with hedgehogs and flamingos, a baby turns into a pig, time runs amok at a the Mad Hatter's tea-party, a chaotic game of chess makes Alice a Queen and the Mock Turtle and Gryphon dance the Lobster Quadrille. But amongst the anarchic humour and sparkling wordplay, unforgettable characters, puzzles and riddles, are poignant moments of nostalgia for a lost childhood.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
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