Read On - The Audiobook Show from RNIB

Read On - The Audiobook Show from RNIB


Latest Episodes

396: Ariane Bankes, Irvine Welsh and Elizabeth Oldfield at the Wigtown Book Festival
November 01, 2024

This week on Read On we have three very different authors,  Ariane Bankes discovers her mother's and aunt's correspondence in The Quality of Love: Twin Sisters at the Heart of the Century, Irvine Welsh tells us about the third Ray Lennox book, Resolution

395: Josie Lloyd - Miss Beeton’s Murder Agency
October 25, 2024

Today we're chatting to Josie Lloyd about her brand new cosy crime adventure Miss Beetons Murder Agency and we get an exclusive news about a brand new book Josie is writing with Emlyn Rees. Plus we'll find some new books in the RNIB Library.The image s

394: Coinneach MacLeod, Pen Vogler and Julian Baggini at Wigtown Book Festival
October 18, 2024

There's a food theme in this week's episode as we head to Wigtown to chat to The Hebridean Baker Coinneach MacLeod, food historian Pen Vogler on her books Scoff and Stuffed and philosopher Julian Baggini tells us How The World Eats. Plus we get the Books

393: Gareth Brown - The Book of Doors - Wigtown Book Festival
October 11, 2024

In a talk sponsored by RNIB Connect Radio, Gareth Brown talks to Teddy Jameson live on stage at the Wigtown Book Festival about his best-selling time-travelling page turner, The Book of Doors. Plus we find some brand new books in the RNIB Library.

392: Wigtown Hidden Gems
October 04, 2024

As I'm down in Wigtown recording next week's show, here's a collection of hidden gems we've recorded at the festival over the years.

391: Lucy Ellmann, Stephanie Ellyne and Tia Fisher
September 27, 2024

Another collection of narrators in today's show as we celebrate the voices who bring RNIB Talking Books to life, including two very personal tales for becoming a narrator, how an epic stream of consciousness was recorded over months, and we get the Books

390: Jesse Sutanto - You Will Never Be Me
September 20, 2024

Influencer Meredith Lee didn't teach Aspen Palmer how to blossom on social media just to be ditched as soon as Aspen became big. So can anyone really blame Mer for doing a little stalking? Nothing serious, more like Stalking Lite. Jesse Sutanto joins Rob

389: Read On - Live on Stage
September 13, 2024

A compilation episode today of the times Read On was recorded live on stage in front of an audience. We hear from Booker Shortlisted author Graeme Macrae Burnet, former presenter Red Szell, comedian Juliette Burton and there's an extended interview with a

388: Julia Donaldson and Elizabeth Proud
September 06, 2024

Two tales of recording books today. Julia Donaldson works out how to make an audio version of a very visual book, and Elizabeth Proud talks about how audiobook narration has changed over the years. Plus we'll find some new books in the RNIB Library.

387: Sophie Gravia - Hot Girl Summer and the Glasgow Kiss Trilogy
August 30, 2024

This week Robert Kirkwood chats to Sophie Gravia about her Glasgow Kiss trilogy and her new book Hot Girl Summer, and why she started writing while working as a nurse during the pandemic. Plus we find some new book in the RNIB Library.