RNIB Reading podcast
RNIB Reading podcast
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Calling all bookworms! RNIB's reading themed podcasts bring 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.
Behind the scenes - Robert Saggers, RNIB Heritage Services
Robert Saggers is RNIB's Heritage Services Manager. Clare Carson caught up with him at RNIB's Talking Book studios to talk about the treasures in the RNIB archives.
Jun 3, 2013
7 min
Ellie Wallwork's speech at the Carnegie Awards
Ellie Wallwork is 12 and registered blind. She took part in the Cilip Carnegie Award shadowing scheme last year and featured in a moving video which was shown at last year's award ceremony. This year she was invited to come in person to the awards ceremony at the Barbican in London to give a speech. Here she is being introduced by news reader Kate Silverton and afterwards having a quick chat with Read On producer Kim Normanton.
Oct 9, 2012
4 min
Team GB's "Gary Lineker" - Jon Gribbin
Last year the National Library Service was lucky enough to have a visit from Blind Footballer and Paralympian Jon Gribbin or as he is dubbed Team GB's "Gary Lineker". He talked to a group of readers about his journey to becoming a world class 5-a-side blind footballer.
Oct 8, 2012
13 min
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.
Apr 2, 2012
8 min
Author profile - Stephen Kelman
Stephen Kelman talked to Insight Radio's Robert Kirkwood about his Booker Prize nominated first novel Pigeon English.
Jan 9, 2012
9 min
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.
Aug 1, 2011
2 min
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.
Jul 1, 2011
19 min
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.
Jun 1, 2011
1 min
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.
May 2, 2011
8 min
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.
Apr 1, 2011
8 min
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