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Talking Books

The best of the spoken word from RNIB's Talking Book Studios.

New episodes every Monday to Friday at 2pm and repeated every night at 10pm.

Enjoy an unabridged audiobook, serialised over a number of days and weeks, only on RNIB Connect Radio or listen again to every episode here. Our current book is The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss.

The famous story of the family of castaways whose perseverance and ingenuity help them to turn their island into a rich and fertile home.

Read by Gabriel Woolf, this book runs for 14 episodes until the 23rd of February.

The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss

14 episodes

Image shows the cover of the book Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss and shows a colour illustration of a tree, in the branches of which is a sleeping platform, covered by canvas. Animals and family members are looking up at a chest being hoisted up to the platform. A young boy is climbing a rope ladder.