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477: Katya Baylen - Ghostlines - Carnegie Medal for Writing
May 22, 2026
57m 44s
476: Tia Fisher - Not Going to Plan - Carnegie Medal for Writing
May 15, 2026
57m 45s
475: Best of the Boswell Book Festival
May 8, 2026
57m 45s
474: Julie Caplin - The Hotel by the Sea
May 1, 2026
57m 45s
473: Rob Harrell - Popcorn - Carnegie Medal for Writing
Apr 24, 2026
57m 44s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/22/26 |  477: Katya Baylen - Ghostlines - Carnegie Medal for Writing | Today on Read On, a former Carnegie Medal winner, Katya Baylen, discusses this year's shortlisted title, Ghostlines and we talk about her very own Braille copy of October, October. We also find some new books in the RNIB Library. | 57m 44s | ||||||
| 5/15/26 |  476: Tia Fisher - Not Going to Plan - Carnegie Medal for Writing | Today we talk to Tia Fisher about her Carnegie shortlisted book, Not Going to Plan, a powerful verse novel about sexual consent, unplanned pregnancy and the breaking of taboos.We also find some new books in the RNIB Library. | 57m 45s | ||||||
| 5/8/26 |  475: Best of the Boswell Book Festival✨ | Boswell Book Festivalaudiobooks+3 | Jen StoutAlexander McCall Smith+2 | — | — | Boswell Book FestivalJen Stout+3 | — | 57m 45s | |
| 5/1/26 |  474: Julie Caplin - The Hotel by the Sea✨ | audiobooksbook reviews+3 | Julie Caplin | RNIB LibraryRead On+2 | — | Julie CaplinThe Hotel by the Sea+3 | — | 57m 45s | |
| 4/24/26 |  473: Rob Harrell - Popcorn - Carnegie Medal for Writing✨ | audiobookswriting+3 | Rob Harrell | RNIB LibraryPopcorn+1 | Texas | Rob HarrellPopcorn+5 | — | 57m 44s | |
| 4/17/26 |  472: Lucy Roth/Lucy Nichol - The Party To End All Parties✨ | musicmental health+3 | Lucy RothLucy Nichol | RNIB Library | — | Lucy RothLucy Nichol+5 | — | 57m 45s | |
| 4/10/26 |  471: Carnegie Medal Winners✨ | Carnegie Medalchildren's fiction+3 | Manon Steffan RosJoseph Coelho+1 | Carnegie Medal | — | Carnegie Medalchildren's literature+3 | — | 57m 45s | |
| 4/3/26 |  470: Ben Markovits - The Rest of Our Lives✨ | road tripaffair+3 | Ben Markovits | The Rest of Our Lives | Pittsburgh | Ben MarkovitsThe Rest of Our Lives+6 | — | 57m 45s | |
| 3/27/26 |  469: Lisa Timoney/Kate Storey/Naomi Williams - The Last Page Cafe✨ | audiobooksfamily drama+3 | Lisa TimoneyKate Storey+1 | The Last Page CafeThe Lies Our Children Tell+1 | — | Lisa TimoneyKate Storey+7 | — | 57m 44s | |
| 3/20/26 |  468: Comicbooks as Audiobooks featuring Daredevil: Born Again✨ | audiobookscomic books+4 | — | MarvelDisney+3 | — | audiobookscomic books+5 | — | 57m 44s | |
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| 3/13/26 |  467: Talking Books at 90 - The First Recorded Voices (and the equipment used)✨ | history of recordingRNIB Talking Books+4 | — | phonautographphonograph+5 | — | RNIB Talking Booksrecording history+7 | — | 57m 45s | |
| 3/6/26 |  466: World Book Day 2026✨ | World Book Daychildren's literature+3 | — | RNIBPaddington | — | World Book Day2026+5 | — | 57m 45s | |
| 2/27/26 |  465: Talking Books at 90 - Ian Fraser and the first Talking Books | 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. | 57m 45s | ||||||
| 2/20/26 |  464: Talking Books at 90 - Recording Pride and Prejudice with Ben Willbond, Phil Dunster, Lisa George and Shazia Mirza | 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. | 57m 45s | ||||||
| 2/13/26 |  463: Love Stories for Valentine | 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. | 57m 45s | ||||||
| 2/11/26 |  Talking Books at 90 - Pride & Prejudice multi-cast recording | James Bartlett, Reading Services Manager at RNIB tells Robert Kirkwood about a new recording of Pride and Prejudice with many famous narrators, made to celebrate 90 years of Talking Books. We also hear the foreword by Julian Fellowes.Full book - https://audioboom.com/playlists/4635906-talking-books-at-90-pride-and-prejudice-by-jane-austen | 9m 18s | ||||||
| 2/6/26 |  462: Susan Choi - Flashlight | Today we continue our deep dive into last year's Booker shortlist as Robert Kirkwood has a long chat with Susan Choi on her novel Flashlight. They chat about the significance of the title, the importance of historical research and even end up chatting about ashtrays from McDonalds and smoking in the office! | 57m 44s | ||||||
| 2/2/26 |  World Book Day Children's Writing Competition | The year 2026 is National Year of Reading and this along with World Book Day 2026 on March 5, is a great chance for every child, including those with reading impairments and vision impairments, to enjoy and celebrate their love of reading and storytelling.To mark the occasion, leading sight loss charity, Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is running a creative writing competition so children with vision impairments can express their creativity and love of books.The competition is open to any child or young person between the ages of 5-12 years with a vision impairment in the UK. The last date to submit entries is Monday 23 February 2026.We can’t wait to read your submission and wish you the very best of luck!For full details of how to enter the competition, email worldbookday@rnib.org.uk | 8m 50s | ||||||
| 1/30/26 |  461: Katie Kitamura - Audition | In today's episode Robert Kirkwood chats to Katie Kitamura about her novel Audition, an exhilarating, destabilising novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love.They chat about dimension shifts, narration and why the book was almost called Performance.Plus we find some new books in the RNIB Library. | 57m 44s | ||||||
| 1/23/26 |  460: Andrew Miller - The Land in Winter | The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller is an atmospheric novel set during a famously freezing 1960s winter, exploring the minutiae of married life through the interior lives of two couples. Robert Kirkwood talks to Andrew about his inspiration for the novel, why it's not based on his parents and about his first time narrating one of his novels. | 57m 44s | ||||||
| 1/16/26 |  459: Kiran Desai - The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny | 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 – an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity. Robert Kirkwood asks Kiran about her writing process, casting the audio version and where to get a good kebab in New York. | 57m 44s | ||||||
| 1/9/26 |  458: Best of the Fests | A listen back to the times I was set free at both Boswell and Wigtown Book Festivals featuring Rupert Everett, Louise Minchin, Wayne Sleep, Dom Joly and Andrew O'Hagan. | 57m 44s | ||||||
| 1/2/26 |  457: Review of 2025 - Part 2 | A listen back to some 2025 highlights from later in last year including Percival Everett, Yael van der Wouden, Nate Lessore, Margaret McDonald, David Szalay and pay tribute to Frederick Forsythe and Dame Stella Rimington. | 57m 44s | ||||||
| 12/26/25 | 456: Review of 2025 - Part 1 | A listen back to some 2025 highlights from early last year including AJ West, Yael van der Wouden, Rachel Kushner, Clare Mackintosh, Lucy Edwards and pay tribute to narrator Steve Hodson. | 57m 45s | ||||||
| 12/19/25 |  455: Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper-Jones - Christmas with the Map Men Part 2 | In today's Read On, Robert Kirkwood chats 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).In the second part of their chat they discuss accessibility, made up mountains, an audiobook co-incidence and even have a feel of a tactile map from RNIB.Plus we'll find some more festive books in the RNIB Library. | 57m 44s | ||||||
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