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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 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.

Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which a book will burn. Montag is a fireman but the work of the fire brigade is not to put out fires but to burn books. The penalty for any fireman who tries to read or hide away a book is death by the fangs of a mechanical blood-hound. And Montag has begun to doubt the wisdom of the all-powerful system.

Read by Christopher Scott, his book runs for 7 episodes until the 14th of August.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

7 episodes

Cover of the first edition of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. The illustration features a robotic, humanoid figure made of newspaper or book pages, engulfed in stylized flames. The author's name, "Ray Bradbury," appears prominently, with "Bradbury" in bold red letters. The title "Fahrenheit 451" is in green and red below the illustration. The publisher, Ballantine Books, is noted at the bottom.