Read On - The Audiobook Show from RNIB
A weekly show all about audiobooks and accessible reading from RNIB Talking Books.
Tune in for fresh episodes every Friday at 1pm, accompanied by a re-airing on Saturday at 10pm, Sunday at 2pm, and Monday at 6pm.
Our programme features discussions with your beloved authors and narrators, as well as critiques, updates, conversations about audiobooks, and reading materials that are easily accessible. Presented and produced by Robert Kirkwood.
Read On - The Audiobook Show from RNIB episodes
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Best-selling author Joanna Trollope has died aged 82
Author of many favourites in the RNIB Library, Joanna herself was very aware of the importance of accessibility as she had an eye condition that made her partially sighted. Here she is on the importance of Talking Books
Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper-Jones - Christmas with the Map Men Part 1
In today's Read On, Robert Kirkwood chats to the Map Men, also known as Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper-Jones about their debut book This Way Up - When Maps Go Wrong (and why it matters).
E.K. Wise - The Keepers of the Rock Book 1 - The Debilis Rising
From her home in Los Angeles, author E.K. Wise tells Robert Kirkwood about The Keepers of the Rock - Book 1 The Debilis Rising, a thrilling YA fantasy full of secrets, crystals and history. We discuss the science behind the book, about neurodivergent representation and ask why the audio version was recorded in the UK
Annaliese Avery - The Wycherleys plus Renita Boyle and Charlotte Bennie - Wigtown Book Festival
In the final show this year recorded in Scotland's Book Town, we chat to author Annaliese Avery about her new series, The Wycherleys, storyteller Renita Boyle has some Wild Words and listener Charlotte Bennie, and her guide dog Christie, tell us what the Wigtown Book Festival is like for accessibility.
Nicholas Jubber and Ambrose Parry - Wigtown Book Festival
Today Robert Kirkwood chats to Nicholas Jubber about Monsterland, a journey around the world's dark imagination and he also talks to an author with two heads ... those being that of Christopher Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman AKA Ambrose Parry, about the latest Raven and Fisher mystery, The Death of Shame.
David Szalay - Flesh - Booker Winner 2025
On today's Read On a long chat with the winner of the Booker Prize 2025, David Szalay. Robert Kirkwood chats to David about the life of his character István, and how he seems to live in the gaps between chapters, and about the narration of the audio version by Daniel Weyman.
Booker Winner 2025 - David Szalay for Flesh (Extract)
Full interview on Friday - but for now huge congratulations to David Szalay for his Booker win for Flesh - available in audio and Braille from RNIB Library.
Booker Shortlist 2025 - Susan Choi, Kiran Desai, Katie Kitamura, Ben Markovits, Andrew Miller, and David Szalay
Today a supercut of interviews with all six Booker shortlisted authors for 2025 with Susan Choi on Flashlight, Kiran Desai on The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, Katie Kitamura on Audition, Ben Markovits on The Rest of Our Lives, Andrew Miller on The Land in Winter, and David Szalay on Flesh.
Grant Harrold, Robert Twigger and Vivian French - Wigtown Book Festival
In today's episode from Scotland's Book Town we chat to friend of the show, and author of over 300 books, Vivian French. We chat end of the world survival with author Robert Twigger and hear about King Charles' book collection from The Royal Butler, Grant Harrold.
Dan Richards and Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan - Wigtown Book Festival
Today on Read On from the Wigtown Book Festival, we have some journeys, conversations and stories after dark in Dan Richards' book, Overnight and chat to Suzanne O'Sullivan about The Age of Diagnosis: How the Overdiagnosis Epidemic is Making Us Sick.