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Catherine Cookson Week
This week we're exploring the life, legacy and literature of one of the countries best loved authors – Catherine Cookson. We explore her extraordinary life with her biographer, Kathleen Jones. Discover some of the artefacts at the South Shields museum dedicated to preserving her memory. Narrator Elizabeth Proud reminisces about recording Cookson’s novels for the RNIB Talking Books Library. And we immerse ourselves in the harsh realities of the ‘The 15 Streets’.
Catherine Cookson Week - Tom and Catherine
It's Catherine Cookson Week on RNIB Connect Radio and all week we're celebrating one of the UKs best loved authors and thanking the Catherine Cookson Charitable trust for their continued support of RNIB and the Talking Books service. Today playwright Tom Kelly chats about the musical Tom and Catherine, which charts Catherine Cookson and her husband's 50 year marriage.
Continuing the Classics with Sophie Hannah, David Brawn and Lynn Shepherd
This week we’ll be using our little grey cells to investigate some new developments in classic crime... Sophie Hannah tells us why Hercule Poirot is working with a new partner, and her publisher talks about how the collaboration came about. Lynn Shepherd discusses adding crime scenes to stories inspired by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. And Red finds the book in The Library that made me want to be a crime writer. Join the conversation by emailing [email protected]
Tessa Fontaine, Deborah Harkness, and a nuclear reaction.
This week we’re going transatlantic with some great contemporary tales from America. Tessa Fontaine tells us about running away to join the circus, in her memoir ‘The Electric Woman’. Paul Birchard recounts the remarkable story of ‘The Boy Who Played With Fusion’. And Deborah Harkness talks about transforming ‘A Discovery of Witches’ from best-selling books to primetime TV. Join the conversation on [email protected]
Narrator Interview - Paul Birchard
Paul Birchard tells Robert Kirkwood the remarkable story of ‘The Boy Who Played With Fusion’, which he narrated for RNIB Talking Books.
Roald Dahl at the RNIB Talking Book Studios
A listen to Roald Dahl at the Talking Books studios from 1986, introducing and narrating his first children's book, 'James and the Giant Peach'.
Texas Hold 'Em and more
Today we’re raising the stakes and opening some books on betting. Debut author Martin Nathan discusses writing and playing poker with blind friends. Biographer Anthony Holden delves into the history of poker and its importance in his life. Victoria Coren-Mitchell shares her confessions of a poker player and what it’s like to win a million. And racehorse owner Alan Pickering discusses a life spent with sight loss and pensions.
The Book Group - The Rules of Seeing by Joe Heap
Our blind and partially sighted Book Group discuss a book with sight loss at its core, The Rules of Seeing by Joe Heap. Please note there are some small SPOILERS in this episode but as its a book that has been just released we avoided talking about its later chapters ... at least while the mics were still on!
The Book Group - The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
This month the book group discuss the winner of the Man Booker Prize from 2011, The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes. What will our group of blind and partially sighted book lovers think about it as they listen to the RNIB Talking Book version?
The Book Group - Autumn by Ali Smith
This month our blind and partially sighted readers discuss Autumn by Ali Smith, shortlisted for the 2017 Booker Prize. Please note this show contains SPOILERS for the book.