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Read On - The Audiobook Show from RNIB

RNIB Connect Radio

A weekly show all about audiobooks recorded at the RNIB Talking Book studios. We talk to your favourite authors and narrators, along with reviews and news about new audiobooks. Presented and produced by Robert Kirkwood, you"ll find a new episode here every Friday at 1pm plus bonus content such as longer uncut interviews and episodes of our occasional extra show, The Book Group. Talking Books is a free service from RNIB giving access to over 40,000 fiction and non fiction books for adults and

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431: Rupert Everett, Gelong Thubten and Helen Lederer...

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2025/07/04

In today's edition of Read On, we're on location at Dumfries House at this year's Boswell Book Festival.Robert Kirkwood chats to Hollywood Icon Rupert Everett about his book, The American No, Buddhist monk, meditation teacher and author Gelong Thubten tells us about his Handbook for Hard Times and comedian Helen Lederer tells us about her memoir, Not That I'm Bitter. Plus in the spirit of the festival we find some new biographies in the RNIB Library.

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430: Sue Moorcroft - The Skye Sisters Trilogy

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2025/06/27

Today we travel to the Isle of Skye with Sue Moorcroft as the third volume of her best selling Skye Sisters Trilogy is released. Plus we find some new books entering the RNIB Library.

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429: Margaret McDonald & Nathanael Lessore - Carnegie...

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2025/06/20

Our final Carnegie Medal for Writing show with winner of the Shadowing Award Nathanael Lessore for King of Nothing and winner of this year's Medal for Writing, Margaret McDonald on Glasgow Boys.Plus we take a swift visit to the RNIB Library to find some brand new books.

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428: Kelly McCaughrain & Matt Goodfellow - Carnegie...

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2025/06/13

Today on Read On we're continuing our interviews with authors on the shortlist for the Carnegie Medal for Writing. This week Kelly McCaughrain on Little Bang and Matt Goodfellow on The Final Year, plus we find some new audiobooks out now and available from RNIB Library.

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Frederick Forsyth at the RNIB Studios

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2025/06/10

Frederick Forsyth, the author of The Day Of The Jackal, has died at the age of 86 after a brief illness. He was a great supporter of RNIB Talking Books, visiting the studios many times to record messages and raise awareness, and even to record a small non-fiction tale he wrote for us as part of a fundraising effort to re-archive our old tape recordings to a digital format. On one visit, Robert Kirkwood grabbed him for a chat about his books and his dangerous research trips and to ask why he

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427: Brian Conaghan & Luke Palmer - Carnegie Medal...

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2025/06/06

In today's episode, we talk to two more authors on the Carnegie Medal for Writing shortlist, Luke Palmer on his book Play and Brian Conaghan on Treacle Town, plus we find some new books out now and available from the RNIB Library.

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426: Blessing Musariri & Clare Furniss - Carnegie...

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2025/05/30

In today's episode, we talk to two authors on the Carnegie Medal for Writing shortlist, Blessing Musariri on her book All That It Ever Meant and Clare Furniss on The Things We Leave Behind, plus we find some new books out now and available from the RNIB Library.

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425: Becky C Brynolf and Daniel Tammet

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2025/05/23

A mix of fiction and non-fiction in today's show as Becky C Brynolf tells us about her debut I Found A Body in which an influencer gets mixed up in a murder investigation. We also hear from writer and savant Daniel Tammet about Nine Minds: Inner Lives on the Spectrum, delving into the extraordinary lives of nine neurodivergent men and women from around the globe, including blind academic Amanda in Australia. All that plus some new books in the RNIB Library.

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424: Percival Everett on James - Winner of the 2025...

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2025/05/16

Winner of the National Book Award and now the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, James is a subversive reimagining of “Huckleberry Finn” told from the perspective of Jim, Huck's enslaved companion on the raft ride. Percival Everett tells Robert Kirkwood about the book and reveals he read Huck Finn too many times in the research!We also hear about the science behind James Bond's gadgets and Agatha Christie's poisons with Kathryn Harkup and find some new books in the RNIB Library.

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423: Boswell Book Festival Interview Special

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2025/05/09

As I'm off recording at Dumfries House at the moment, here's selection of interviews from past Boswell Book Festival events including Lady Anne Glenconner, founder of Private Eye Richard Ingrams, biographer Ben McIntyre, Winston Churchill's granddaughter Emma Soames, Andrew Cotter with Olive and Mabel, and we're Cloistered with Catherine Coldstream.

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422: Celia Silvani - Baby Teeth

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2025/05/02

On this week's Read On, Robert Kirkwood chats to Celia Silvani about her debut novel Baby Teeth, a cautionary tale about how vulnerable, isolated people can be lured into toxic communities and the catastrophic consequences this can have. Trigger Warning: This interview contains discussions and references to pregnancy and infertility. There is also a scene of pregnancy loss in the book.

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421: Beth O'Brien - Wolf Siren

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2025/04/25

This week on Read On a captivating chat with Beth O'Brien, visually impaired author of new HarperCollins Children’s Book 'Wolf Siren', which also has a visually impaired narrator. Beth talks about her writing, watching the narration process and her passion project, 'Disabled Tales.'

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420: Dame Stella Rimington - The Hidden Hand

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2025/04/18

Stella Rimington was the first female director general of MI5 and brings true authenticity to her books about spying and espionage. She talks to Robert Kirkwood about her career, her Liz Carlyle books and her imagined end, plus her two new Manon Tyler books. Dame Rimington also talks about how her failing eyesight due to AMD is affecting her ability to write.And for episode 420, we also find some influential musical biographies in the RNIB Library.

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419: Nydia Hetherington - Sycorax & A Girl Made of Air

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2025/04/11

This week in Read On, author Nydia Hetherington tells us how living with a chronic yet hidden illness inspired her to write the untold story of Shakespeare's witch, Sycorax and also her debut novel, A Girl Made of Air. She also tells us how many spoons it took to narrate the audio version herself.

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418: Chris Bridges - Sick to Death

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2025/04/04

Emma is sick. Just not in the way you thought. In today's Read On - The Audiobook Show, we're mixing a thriller with a hidden disability in Chris Bridges debut novel Sick To Death. Plus we find some brand new books the RNIB Library, one written and read by actor, Brian Cox.

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417: Kate Kemp - The Grapevine plus Share The Vision

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2025/03/28

In this week's Read On - The Audiobook Show we chat to debut novelist Kate Kemp about murder and intrigue on Warrah Place, a sweltering Australian suburban cul-de-sac, in her novel The Grape Vine.We also hear from Mark McCree and Simon Savidge from Share the Vision, a coalition of UK organisations that work together to improve the quality, availability and accessibility of library services for visually impaired and print disabled people. And talking of accessible libraries, we'll find new books

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416: Clare Mackintosh - Other People's Houses

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2025/03/21

In today's Read On we enter the world of DC Ffion Morgan and DS Leo Brady with author Clare Mackintosh with the release of the third book in the series, Other People's Houses. We also listen back to earlier books from Clare and find some brand new books in the Talking Books library.

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415: Lucy Edwards - Blind Not Broken & Ella Jones vs...

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2025/03/14

In today's show we chat to blind broadcaster, social media creator and author, Lucy Edwards, about her books Blind Not Broken and Ella Jones vs The Sun Stealer, and about her campaigns for equality and becoming an RNIB ambassador.We also find some brand new books entering the Talking Books library.

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414: Mari Hannah, Steve Hodson plus Maurice and Maralyn

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2025/03/07

In today's show we hear about the new thriller from Mari Hannah, Her Sister's Killer, the latest in the Stone and Oliver series.We also pay tribute to narrator Steve Hodson and hear from Nero book of the year Maurice and Maralyn by Sophie Elmhirst

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Tribute to narrator Steve Hodson

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2025/03/05

A familiar and warm voice to listeners of RNIB Talking Books, and audiobook and radio drama listeners everywhere, Steve Hodson, has passed away at 77. We listen back to him telling us how he became a narrator, hear some stories and listen to a clip of one of his favourite books.

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