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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 New Europe, written and read by Michael Palin.

Palin's New Europe takes the form of a journey through countries which have rich and complex cultures. Few have survived intact, as the ebb and flow of warring armies has continually changed the map of Europe. Starting in the mountains of Slovenia he travels down through Croatia and the former Yugoslavia to Albania before turning northwards to embrace Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, The Ukraine, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, the former East Germany, Poland, the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, opening up a new and undiscovered world to millions of viewers and readers.

This book runs for 14 episodes until the 22 July.

New Europe by Michael Palin

14 episodes

Book cover of New Europe by Michael Palin. The top half features a stylized illustration of a red and yellow airship with a person dangling from a rope, and a vintage airplane flying in the background against a blue sky. Below that is a black-and-white photo of Michael Palin, with his name in large white letters on a grey background. The title "New Europe" and the phrase "The No.1 Bestseller" are also visible. The bottom half shows an illustrated cityscape of Eastern European architecture with colourful rooftops and green-domed churches under a clear sky.