RNIB Reading podcast
By RNIB
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Podcast Description
Calling all bookworms! RNIB's reading themed podcast brings you book news and reviews, author interviews, RNIB National Library Service updates and much more. Includes hightlights from Read on magazine. RNIB is a charity supporting blind and partially sighted people in the UK.
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RNIB's Peter Atkins explains ebooks | As part of Love Libraries Week RNIB National Library Service hosted introductory sessions to ebook readers. Peter Atkins, from RNIB's Media and Culture Department, demonstrated four ebook players - the Sony, Amazon Kindle, Kobo and iPad and gave blind and partially sighted participants the opportunity to play with them. This was the first time that many of the attendees had had the chance to get their hands on these machines and see which one would suit them best. | 1 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Author profile - Stephen Kelman | Stephen Kelman talked to Insight Radio's Robert Kirkwood about his Booker Prize nominated first novel Pigeon English. | 8 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kate Morton promoting her new book, The Distant Hours | Kate Morton speaks about her new book, The Distant Hours. The story: Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long lost letter arrives with the return address of Milderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her mother's emotional distance masks an old secret. | 31 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Book box - for children and young people | Judith Kerr, the author and illustrator of much loved children's story The Tiger Who Came to Tea, is still going strong at the age of 87. Judith also wrote the Mog books and also a beautiful story for older children titled When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, which was based on her experience of fleeing Nazi Germany as a child. We spoke to her at the Cheltenham Book Festival. | 30 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alexander McCall Smith interview | In addition to writing, Alexander McCall Smith became a respected expert on medical law and bioethics and served on international committees. He is probably best known as the creator of The no. 1 ladies' detective agency. Clare Carson interviewed him at the Cheltenham Literary Festival. | 31 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Emma Donoghue interview | Shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, Emma Donoghue spoke to James Butterworth from RNIB's Insight Radio about her novel, Room. | 1 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Author profile - John Boyne | John Boyne talks about writing for a young audience whilst dealing with incredibly difficult subject matter in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, and we ask him what he would miss most if he lost his sight. | 31 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Author profile - Jo Brand | Jo Brand has had a diverse career beginning as a psychiatric nurse, moving on to stand up comedy and then writing for a living. Clare Carson interviewed her at Cheltenham Literary Festival where she talked about her autobiography 'Look back in hunger' and her semi-autobiographical novel 'It's different for girls'. | 28 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reading through audio | We chat to Val Worley who is a great fan of talking books. Val is registered blind and says that talking books became a lifeline after the blow of being told she was losing her sight. | 31 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A passion for poetry - An interview with Simon Armitage | Before Simon Armitage became a poet and playwright he was a probation officer and before that he stacked shelves at a local supermarket. He has recently published The poetry of birds - with his friend and radio producer Tim Dee. Clare Carson caught up with him at the Cheltenham Festival. | 2 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discovering giant print | Library user Sue McDermott has recently discovered giant print. We talked to her about how it's transformed the way she reads. | 30 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Author profile - Sarah Waters | 2009 Man Booker Prize shortlisted author, Sarah Waters, speaks to Robert Kirkwood from Insight Radio about her gothic ghost story "The Little Stranger" | 31 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 12 Episodes |
