Today on Read On, Robert Kirkwood talks to Frances Wilson about Electric Spark - The Enigma of Muriel Spark, and author Adam Hart about Operation Pimento: My Great-Grandfather's Great Escape. @rnibradio.bsky.social @bozzybookfest.bsky.social audioboom.com/posts/8925809

Och, that's a shame

Read On talked to Carnegie winner Beth O'Brien last year when Wolf Siren came out ... so yeah, I liked it before it was cool! 😉 audioboom.com/posts/870369...

On Read On today: a @bozzybookfest.bsky.social talk with Vice President of RNIB Penny Lancaster, on her book Someone Like Me. She chats to Janet Smith about her childhood with dyslexia, job as a Special Constable, charity work and more. Full episode: https://bit.ly/3Qp5lEp #Audiobooks #BookSky

Congrats to partially sighted author Beth O'Brien who just won the Carnegie Medal for Writing! Wolf Siren reimagines Little Red Riding Hood as a visually impaired girl, and the audiobook was recorded at RNIB Talking Book studios by partially sighted narrator Niamh Longford. #BookSky #Carnegies2026

Read On with partially sighted author Beth O'Brien on her Carnegie Shortlisted book Wolf Siren and her brand new book Feather Vane, and a recent tour she was on with Scottish Book Trust, and much more ... audioboom.com/posts/8911369 @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social @rnibradio.bsky.social

Close but unfortunately no cigar, but at least there's a free bar

Please note this ... #booksky www.rnib.org.uk/news/please-...

1 day to go

First @bozzybookfest.bsky.social interview done and it's only Dougie Donnelly (I am aware people south of the border might not appreciate this as much, but still Dougie Donnelly!)

New episode of Read On - The Audiobook Show Today we escape to Julie Caplin's Hotel by the Sea, we visit a fairy tale exhibition, and we find some books in the RNIB Library. Plus there's some news about an Aria nomination for Read On! audioboom.com/posts/8897493

AUTHORS #booksky Okay, update on the Scam emails that have been impersonating RNIB Connect Radio - they've started using my name! SO, if you get an email from me asking to talk about your book and it doesn't have a @ rnib dot org dot uk address or if they ask you for money - do not engage!

That one time our book expert Robert and author of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith, had a good laugh. Robert had a great chat with the author amidst the frenzy of the Boswell Book Festival in 2024. Follow Read On: The Audiobook Show: https://bit.ly/ReadOnRNIB

Congrats to Robert @talking-books.bsky.social! Read On The Audiobook show is nominated for Best Speech Entertainment at #UKARIAS and we are so proud. From latest audiobook news to lively discussions with beloved authors and narrators. This is the show for the bookworms out there! Fingers crossed!

News! Read On - The Audiobook Show is up for an Aria!

Today on Read On - The Audiobook Show, Lucy Nichol talks music, mental health, and learns how to hide a body as we go to The Party To End All Parties. Plus we find some new books available from RNIB Library. audioboom.com/posts/888564...

Someone said it looks like the Tardis is in mid transport - which is both great and yet blasphemous! May Obi Wan climb down from Mt Doom himself and hit you with Mjölnir.

TIL the Temu TARDIS decanter isn't dishwasher safe ... But to be honest it looks a bit better, a bit interdimensional

Framed my back-of-a-cupboard find!

SCAM ALERT FOR AUTHORS #booksky If you get am email about 'author packages' from RNIB Connect Radio that doesn't come from me, or at least from a rnib dot org dot uk address it's a SCAM. I don't have a team, it's just me, and I don't charge any money! audioboom.com/channel/read...

Dario Scardapane and Sana Amanat, showrummer and producer of Daredevil: Born Again join me on this episode of Read On as I listen to some Comicbooks as Audiobooks #BookSky Also includes the first Dalek and some 2000AD! audioboom.com/posts/887017...

New Read On - The Audiobook Show From the phonautograph to a smart speaker, today's Read On not only looks at the history of 90 years of RNIB Talking Books recording (and the equipment used), but goes back to the invention of recording as a whole. audioboom.com/posts/886651...

Chestita Baba Marta

New Read On - 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. audioboom.com/posts/886107...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a special service in possession of a long and illustrious history is in want of celebration. Our esteemed Talking Books service is a remarkable 90 years old! 😍

Talking Books is 90 years old! To celebrate, we’ve recorded a special anniversary edition of Pride and Prejudice with an all-star cast – including Scottish actor Mark Bonnar, who lends his voice to the story. Listen now: rnib.in/TalkingBooks90

@jayforeman.bsky.social Just listened to you and @gralefrit.bsky.social on #Comfortpod Did you know that Danger Mouse was dubbed into Scots Gaelic. BUT Danger in Gaelic is Cunnart and Mouse is Luch, but there's a big DM on his suit and a not a CL So ... youtu.be/y-5hII715_s?...

Happy Burns Night!

New episode of Read On - The Audiobook Show Andrew Miller talks to Robert Kirkwood about The Land in Winter and discusses his inspiration for the novel, and how it was narrating one of his novels for the first time. audioboom.com/posts/883471... @rnib.bsky.social @rnibradio.bsky.social

New Read On A book 19 years in the making, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai is a spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years #booksky audioboom.com/posts/882023...

Happy When is Bins? week to those who celebrate.

Doo do be do do be doo, doobity do do do doobity doo

New episode of Read On! Today made up mountains, an audiobook co-incidence, and a feel of a tactile map from @rnib.bsky.social Part 2 of Christmas with the Map Men, @jayforeman.bsky.social and @markcooperjones.bsky.social on This Way Up - When Maps Go Wrong audioboom.com/posts/8815290

Amuse bouche before the main course

Map Men Map Men Map Map Map Men Men audioboom.com/posts/881521...

'Tis the Season

New Read On! I chat to the Map Men, also known as Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper-Jones about their debut book This Way Up - When Maps Go Wrong (and why it matters). Part 1 of a 2 part show - 2nd episode next week. audioboom.com/posts/8815213

Dammit, my finger slipped a few times and this turns up :( Sigh, I suppose accidents will happen

New episode of Read On Author E.K. Wise tells Robert Kirkwood about The Keepers of the Rock - We discuss the science behind the book, about neurodivergent representation and ask why the audio version was recorded in the UK @rnibradio.bsky.social audioboom.com/posts/8812454

Today on Read On @annalieseavery.bsky.social on her new series, The Wycherleys, storyteller Renita Boyle has some Wild Words and listener Charlotte Bennie, and her guide dog Christie, tell us what the @wigtownbooktown.bsky.social is like for accessibility. audioboom.com/posts/8808677

New Read On recorded @wigtownbooktown.bsky.social with Nicholas Jubber on Monsterland plus Christopher Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman AKA @ambroseparry.bsky.social on the latest Raven and Fisher mystery, The Death of Shame. @rnibradio.bsky.social @rnib.bsky.social audioboom.com/posts/8807186

Booker winner 2025 David Szalay on his novel Flesh - Full Interview @rnib.bsky.social @rnibscotland.bsky.social @rnibradio.bsky.social @thebookerprizes.com audioboom.com/posts/880490...

Congratulations to David Szalay for winning #BookerPrize2025 with his novel Flesh 📖 Hear our conversation with David about his book on Read On: The Audiobook Show this Friday, but for now, a little teaser below. New episodes of Read On with @talking-books.bsky.social out every Friday at 1 pm.

Congratulations to Booker winner 2025, David Szalay. Full interview coming Friday - here's an extract @rnib.bsky.social @rnibradio.bsky.social @rnibscotland.bsky.social @thebookerprizes.com audioboom.com/posts/880453...

Today on Read On - All six authors on The Booker Prize shortlist. @rnibradio.bsky.social @rnibscotland.bsky.social @rnib.bsky.social audioboom.com/posts/8800978

@syqlone.bsky.social Happy Birthday Beardy :)

In today's Read On we chat to friend of the show Vivian French @vivianji.bsky.social, we chat survival with author Robert Twigger and hear from The Royal Butler, Grant Harrold @rnibradio.bsky.social @wigtownbooktown.bsky.social @rnibscotland.bsky.social audioboom.com/posts/8796267

Recorded at @wigtownbooktown.bsky.social Read On this week features Dan Richards @danzep.bsky.social on Overnight and Suzanne O'Sullivan on The Age of Diagnosis. Plus books in RNIB Library by Eric Idle and Kevin Rowland @rnibradio.bsky.social audioboom.com/posts/8792883 @danzep.bsky.social