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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 Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim and read by Gretel Davis.

A recipe for happiness: four women, one medieval Italian castle, plenty of wisteria, and solitude as needed.

The women at the centre of The Enchanted April are alike only in their dissatisfaction with their everyday lives. They find each other—and the castle of their dreams—through a classified ad in a London newspaper one rainy February afternoon. The ladies expect a pleasant holiday, but they don’t anticipate that the month they spend in Portofino will reintroduce them to their true natures and reacquaint them with joy. Now, if the same transformation can be worked on their husbands and lovers, the enchantment will be complete.

This book runs for 11 episodes until the 7th of May.

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim

11 episodes

The book cover of "The Enchanted April" by Elizabeth Von Arnim. The title is written in elegant black and red font at the top right. Below it, the author’s name appears in a smaller white font. The background features a lush Mediterranean coastal landscape with vivid flowers, palm trees, and a stone terrace overlooking a sweeping bay with a curving shoreline. The town below glows in soft, golden light.