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Read On - The Audiobook Show from RNIB

Read On - The Audiobook Show from RNIB

By: RNIB Connect Radio
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 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 children. Find out more by searching for RNIB Library.

Get involved and join the conversation by emailing radio@rnib.org.uk or find Robert on Twitter @Talking_Books


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Episodes
  • 465: Talking Books at 90 - Ian Fraser and the first Talking Books

    465: Talking Books at 90 - Ian Fraser and the first Talking Books
    Feb 27 2026

    A special (updated) documentary about the origins of the Talking Books service, recorded at the original locations around London, and featuring many voices from the past.

    Historian Matthew Rubery and Robert Kirkwood explore everything from the first Talking Book machines, some failed technology, how books were chosen and much more.
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    58 mins
  • 464: Talking Books at 90 - Recording Pride and Prejudice with Ben Willbond, Phil Dunster, Lisa George and Shazia Mirza

    464: Talking Books at 90 - Recording Pride and Prejudice with Ben Willbond, Phil Dunster, Lisa George and Shazia Mirza
    Feb 20 2026

    An all-star ensemble comes together to celebrate RNIB Talking Books 9th decade of bringing the joy of reading to blind and partially sighted people. A special recording of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice features some of the UK’s best-known actors and today we chat to four of them.

    Ben Willbond, Phil Dunster, Lisa George and Shazia Mirza talk about narrating Jane Austen and give us some great book recommendations.
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    58 mins
  • 463: Love Stories for Valentine

    463: Love Stories for Valentine
    Feb 13 2026
    A love themed show for Valentine's Day featuring Fiona Lucas on Always and Only You, Joanna Toye on The Little Penguin Bookshop, Rachel Greenlaw on The Woodsmoke Women’s Book of Spells, and audio describer Liz Gutman on writing spicy AD for Bridgerton. Plus we find a handful of books on all sorts of love in the RNIB Library.
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    58 mins
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