Robert Kirkwood

Used to make Talking Books now I produce shows about books for @RNIBRadio.

@talking-books.bsky.social

Has your book got an audio version? Drop me a line

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Listen to Read On - The Audiobook Show on your favourite podcast app ... all links here to Apple, Spotify, Google, and many more.

https://t.co/8GsGArAhve

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This is better than the award nomination ...

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https://t.co/5FfGKEPk8v Very exciting to be interviewed about my Carnegie-shortlisted YA teen book #NOTGOINGTOPLAN for the excellent @RNIBRadio (honestly, I could take a bath in the velvety tones of @Talking_Books Robert Kirkwood <sighs>

[Tia Fisher (only here for a bit) @tiafisher_]

https://t.co/5FfGKEPk8v Very exciting to be interviewed about my Carnegie-shortlisted YA teen book #NOTGOINGTOPLAN for the excellent @RNIBRadio (honestly, I could take a bath in the velvety tones of @Talking_Books Robert Kirkwood <sighs>

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Close but unfortunately no cigar, still free bar

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Warning to authors
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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!

https://t.co/bdYuUZn3Wt

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AUTHORS

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 for money - do not engage!

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Today on Read On - The Audiobook Show @LucyENichol 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.

https://t.co/lMa7WmGqx7

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SCAM ALERT FOR AUTHORS

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!

https://t.co/Vv2VEsRhE0

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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

Also includes the first Dalek and some 2000AD!

https://t.co/slpNCbL2fT

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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.

https://t.co/REmCf4adPt

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@WalkaboutMG When are we getting a Scottish Flag ball?

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Chestita Baba Marta

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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.

https://t.co/uj1rhaMbOm

[Loki Jarson @LokiJarson]

"Hardly conclusive, Mr Scott, as Klingons have no tear ducts."

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Happy Burns Night

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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.

@RNIBRadio @RNIB @RNIBLibrary

https://t.co/rL4ZcKOL6t

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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

https://t.co/pqEOj99ByB